Jemsite is one of my favourite forums to hang out on. There are a great number of fantastic members, all fans of Ibanez guitars. Late last year, one member posted about a whole bunch of pedal enclosures that he had swirled (like some of the classic Jem models). I thought …
When the TC Electonic PolyTune was released back in early 2010 it took the world by storm. No longer was it necessary to check one string at a time. You could quickly strum all of your strings, and get a quick idea of what strings were out of tune, and …
Clean boosts are a pedal that are a good place for beginner DIY pedal builders to start at. They also happen to be quite useful, so there’s no reason to not try building one. The classic first build is an Electro Harmonix LPB-1 boost, one of the oldest pedal designs …
True analogue delays are not typically the cheapest of pedals. The Bucket Brigade Device (BBD) chips traditionally used in analogue delays, and modulation effects like flangers, choruses, and phasers are very hard to come by these days, and only one company (Coolaudio) is making new reproductions of old BBD chips. …
One of my favourite tone memories has been that of the Smashing Pumpkins on their first few albums. The massive thick Big Muff tone always sounded phenomenal to me. Despite my love for this tone I never really had a need for a Big Muff, but since modifying and building …