Well, with Part 2 out of the way it’s time to finish populating the circuit board on our BYOC Tri Booster, and then get to filling up that chassis. Installing The Transistors & Capacitors If you check out Step 7 in the official PDF instructions you’ll see that our next move is to install two [...]
Continue reading...17. August 2007
Just a quick note for the vintage effects freaks out there––over on YouTube Avi Bortnick & Michael Leonhart have posted a short clip of the new Electro-Harmonix Germanium OD in action, and it sounds pretty much like you’d expect… a little bit sweet, a little bit raunchy, and a whole lot of old-school overdrive. Would have [...]
Continue reading...17. August 2007
Word on the street has it that ProTone Pedals––makers of some of the world’s most wonderfully raunchy guitar effects––will be unveiling at least three new pedals at the upcoming Winter NAMM 2008 show in Anaheim. But while the Brown Sugar Vibrato and Peligro Fuzz both sound like fun pedals for analog-effects fanatics, to my mind the [...]
Continue reading...16. August 2007
Back in May of this year (2007,) and apparently without an ounce of fanfare, T-Rex released their seriously stylin’ new Viper vibrato pedal onto the world. I don’t know how it went unnoticed––wrapped in black & white snake print it’s one of the more striking stomp-boxes I’ve seen in quite some time––but when I stumbled onto [...]
Continue reading...16. August 2007
The King Is Dead, Long Live The King - Hard to believe it’s been so long, but today marks the 30-year Anniversary of the rather unseemly early death of Elvis Presley. To commemorate his momentous passing, Gibson’s got a pretty good video interview with the true guitar genius behind Presley’s pretty face––six-string legend Scotty Moore. Pocket [...]
Continue reading...14. August 2007
Wow, these guys just can’t stop… apparently not content with their recent release of six brand new pedals, Electro-Harmonix has added yet two more effects to their new XO Line––updated versions of both the Q-Tron and Octave Multiplexer. Q-Tron+ The Q-Tron+ appears to be a suped-up version of E-H’s classic Q-Tron envelope filter––now loaded into [...]
Continue reading...13. August 2007
OK, so we’ve got all of our parts, pieces and tools laid out, and we’re ready to actually start building the BYOC Tri Booster. Populating the circuit board is easily the most time-consuming part of this whole project, so while I think you’ll enjoy the process––don’t expect it to be quick work. This section of the [...]
Continue reading...10. August 2007
OK, so we’ve got our TriBooster Kit from the good folks at Build Your Own Clone, and I’m happy to say they threw in a few extras as well (who doesn’t like extras?) Yeah, it’s cheapy promo stuff, but still fun: two guitar picks with the BYOC “Cloned” Sheep logo printed on them, and a [...]
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22. August 2007
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