John has been known for using a Klon Centaur consistently on his rigs since 2009. Although the settings have varied from time to time, it's a big part of his sound, used on its own or stacked with the TS10 for lead sounds. Recently we learned that John actually found a pedal to use for those sounds when can't bring his Klon for some reason (He has actually said he only owns one): that pedal is the J Rockett Jeff Mod Archer. J Rockett has been putting the Archer pedals since 2014, now offering different models for different necessities and tonal options. The Jeff Archer features NOS diodes and special tweaks to make it the ultimate Klone.

John was first seen using it on his board for the 2021 TV Promo performances, playing 'Wild Blue' and 'Last Train Home'. For each of these songs the setup of the pedalboard was changed but the TS10 and the Jeff Archer stayed.

When the Sob Rock Tour kicked in, the Jeff Archer was loaded into his 'spare' board: a smaller sized board with the basics for his tone so he could take it anywhere easily and quickly while in the middle of touring.

This board was used when he played with Bob Weir and the Wolf Bros. at the Radio City Music Hall (NYC - April 3, 2022). This was in the middle of the Sob Rock Tour shows in Florida. He used his PRS McCarty 594 nicknamed "Honey" into a Fender Princeton amp.

Also, for the final shows of the tour in Boston, he joined Alexander 23 on May 9 for a cover of 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World'. For this, he used this board again, using a Custom Shop Jackson SL-1 into a Fender Vibroverb.

• product page states:

  this modified Archer has now become a feature on a legendary guitarist’s pedalboard replacing the Klon as heard all over the album “Loud Hailer” and on stage.

• J.Rockett Archer can be seen on Jeff Beck's 2022 pedalboard in this YouTube video from Tom Bukovac: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-97ELUQaLhg&t=337 (at 5:37 mark)

• J.Rockett Archer can be seen on the photo of Jeff Beck's 2018 pedalboard posted on this TheGearPage thread: Jeff Beck's board and amps from last night in Arizona

• in the video interview with Carmen Vandenberg, former bandmate of Jeff Beck, when she's asked if Jeff uses Archer she answers: "yeah, he uses one, the other one". (the other one to Archer Ikon which she uses). See www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjPTxWBLQyQ&t=382 at 6:22 mark

Michael Lee Firkins is confirmed to use "The Jeff" Mod Archer pedal, as evidenced by his Instagram post where he thanks J Rockett Audio and Chris Van Tassel for sending him these JB Archer pedals for his tour. In the caption, Firkins explains that Jeff was using the standard silver Archer in place of his Klon and that Chris built a custom Archer, which he tried and loved.