I just spent some time researching and ordering some awesome upgrades for my Stratocaster. I'm really excited! I'm going to shield it, star ground it and hook it up with the highest quality parts I could locate. 

Just though I'd drop a quick note about my newest build... It's just another tube screamer... all hand wired of course... I built it so that I could A/B opamps against each other on stage. I guess I'm looking for the opamp that oozes harmonics or something like that... I don't know. Anyway, check out the photos. Have fun.

Check out my tie dye grilled, treble cut modded Marshall Micro Stack.  They are also known as a Marshall Lead 12 (3005). Mine is a 1986 and I think they made them like this untill the mid 90s but I'm not sure. They have a new one but it's not the same amp... just the same look.

Click in for big photos and details about the treble cut mod which really sweetens up the tone of this cool little amp.

Just thought I'd drop an update about my newest electronics project. I'm building an analogue multi-fx unit for myself.

I've been gigging with various pedal board configurations for the last few years and at this point I know exactly what I use, so I figure why not put it all in one box? I'm merging all of my favorite circuits into one big box so that I only have to carry my multi-fx box, a wah wah and sometimes a delay.. I might add delay to the multi-fx later...

Yum, Tube Screamer.  Everyone that ever said "man I wish this new tubescreamer sounded like the one I had back in the day" deserves one of these.

The fuzz face is one of my favorites. The Fuzz Face has a thick sweet distortion like nothing else. It can clean up as you roll back your guitar's volume knob and create yet another wonderful and useful tone. What a great design. When I build your fuzz face you are getting the real thing. I use a real tie-dyed shirt to cover the box... every one is one of a kind.

Man, I love the sound of a good fuzz face... there is nothing quite like it.  I love it's huge tone that rips through the mix and also it's elegant rhythm tone that shines through when you roll back the guitar's volume to clean up the distortion just right.

The mini-booster is one of the most used pedals I've ever built. It's a popular build in the effects community and everyone seems to love it. I know I do.  Even the Fulltone Fat Boost was based on this design, but this circuit was originally created by Jack Orman as an adaptation of a circuit from National Semiconductor's app-note AN-32.

Some people would say that it is not a transparent boost because it adds a bit of sparkle to the high frequencies... This is true... It may not be "transparent" but it does retain the sound of your instrument or whatever you put in front of it. Transparent or not, it's a damn good sounding gain stage. When people play my gear at the jam they always love this one.

This is the prototype for my newest design.  It's a true clean boost with 18 volts of transparent headroom.

There are two levels of boost which can be selected by pressing the footswitch on the right.  Th prototype is called green/red because those are the LED colors that light up depending on if you've selected the first level of boost or the second.