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 …
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 …
Brian Wampler of Wampler Pedals has been hard at work on a new distortion pedal, and boy does it sound awesome! The SLOstortion packs all the awesome punch and tone of of the famous SLO 1oo amplifiers in a compact pedal package. With a 3 band EQ, and that famous …
I’ve always loved the Smashing Pumpkins first few albums, and the great big dirty Big Muff tone that was on those albums. I’ve been reminiscing in particular about Siamese Dream, my favourite Pumpkins album. I decided that I had to build myself a Big Muff clone. I originally was planning …
I think most people are a little scared to open up and tinker around with their guitar pickups and effects pedals. It’s like there’s some sort of special voodoo magic inside the components that shape our tone. Truth be told most of the time there’s nothing too crazy to deal …