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I get mine from a local specialist office supply/stationary shop.  It's waterproof laser printer adhesive paper and it's probably the easiest stuff to use.  I've tried:

- t-shirt transfers (can be hit and miss with iron heat, and care with the clearcoat is necessary)
- 250GSM paper glued to the top and clearcoated.
- Gloss photopaper glued to the top.
- Inkjet adhesive paper.

Gloss photopaper is pretty good, provided you can get a clean application of spray contact adhesive to the other side.  Tends to ooze out the sides and can be messy.

250GSM needs WAY too much clear to fill it in as it's so porous.  T-shirt transfers are similar.  You have to really do a coat and come back to it later as too much will mess it up.

The waterproof laser paper has to go on straight the first time as it sticks like poop to a blanket and pulling it off to fix it will stretch the sticker.  The upside is that it only takes a coat or 3 of clear to get a good finish.

Don't forget the Dimarzios.  This was obviously never played by Rory Gallagher.

simulanalog guitar suite? Good stuff. We made a four-song record with it:)

Yeah, it was.  I always get the name wrong!

The right panned guitar is the mik-d amp/cab.

You know, I can't remember off the top of my head anymore.  I'm going to have to have a proper listen as there's a couple of nuances in the tracks that I can use to differentiate them...  But I think you're right.

I also LOVE Footrot Flats, and the Dog.

I grew up on dairy farms, and Footrot Flats was almost mandatory reading.  We had a cat called Sampson, who while was a black stray (instead of a white stray), was the real life analog of Horse.  Seriously, over the course of his long life, he did the following:

- Regularly killed Red Bellied Blacks.... and then ate the heads.
- Beat up a full grown Labrador.
- Stared down approaching cars while sitting in the middle of the road.
- Once caught a mouse, brought it over to me, popped a single claw and disembowled it - never taking his eyes off me the whole time.  I got the hint.
- I was entering the house while he was exiting one time (I would have been 6 years old) and I thought it would be funny to slam his tail in the fly screen door.  His reaction was to instantly jump up and try and tear my face off.  I was lucky the flywire door was between him and me - he hung there for a good minute screaming blue murder at me.

But I digress.

There are a couple of comics that are must reads imo.

"The Boys".  This is about the suped up ordinary people who keep superheros in line.

"Injustice, Gods Amongst Us".  The Joker tricks Superman into killing Lois Lane and their unborn child.  Wacky hi-jinks follow.

Not so much, but still pretty good:

"Dan The Unharmable".  Unharmable beach bum gets around occasionally helping people out if he can be bothered.

"Knights of the Dinner Table".  If you like tabletop roleplaying games in any way you'll relate to this.

"Ferals".  Community of werewolves go around pranking the nation.  When I say "pranking", I mean, ripping people's arms off.

I've used this stuff...

http://www.selleys.com.au/putty/epoxy/knead-it-multi-purpose/

Awesomesauce.

So let's play a game. Say whether you think the track is a sim or real amp, and then post a track or two of your own so the next person can take a guess about those.p

I did this on the n-track forum years ago, based on the idea that in a mix, it really doesn't matter too much.  I recorded/mixed a song and split the guitar using my mixer to get a clean track that got the ampsim later on (analoguesuite jcm800) and the other went to my marshall vs102r which was miced.  One track is hard panned left, and the other hard right.  Actually, this was probably over 10 years ago so they might actually be separately recorded tracks.  Either way, it was the same guitar/interface.

The results were about 50/50 right/wrong.

Even the plugin developers got in and had a go - and they got it wrong.

This is the song here if anyone wants to have a crack.

[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/william-phillips-9/lazy-gene-theory-way-you-look[/soundcloud]

Might be a problem - I only have an iphone 5 with that smaller connector..

Necro thread ressurection:

Since I last posted in this thread I moved (up? down? sideways?) to an iPhone 5c and all the iStomp effects are now free... so I'm thinking I'm going to try these things out if I can get one cheap enough to not worry about the cost (and ships to Australia).

Might be easier and cheaper than building the bloody things.  Anyone want to offload one?

Do they still have warm beer over there? That always made me go WTF!?

Just to stay derailed, I found that all the "refrigerated" drinks in the UK were fairly lukewarm.  What's with this warm coke thing?

We've got a pretty good one in Australia, if you really want to offend somebody when they come over to your house, serve them a VB (beer)

Really?  When I was at (Ballarat) Uni 20 years ago it was the pub beer of choice.  I don't drink (and I didn't then either) so I can't tell you why that was or what the situation is there.

What I do know is that no one in Australia drinks Fosters....

Good job.  It's always good to get people started on this stuff.  I did a workshop with some of my guitar students, but there was no lectures involved (besides me having to constantly tell one kid "TIN YOUR WIRE!!") or anything about how it worked.  I just drilled and supplied the kit/enclosures and led them through the process.

Good fun, and everyone left with a working pedal.

http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=10577.msg94366#msg94366

Late to the party, but that's a great sounding pedal.  I was about finished with building pedals... but....

Brilliant idea to use the looper in the demo too.

There can be only one.

One man.  One band (more or less). One geeeetar. 

Brian May's Red Special.

He has a couple of replicas, and there's always the Guild and later on the BM copies, but let's face it - when he goes, it'll be priceless.  He still uses it at every gig and on every record, and we know there's really only one.  There's not 700 variations of it unlike an EVH frankenstrat that got modded every other month.

We also know it's THE original guitar - it's not like Dave Gilmour's black strat that was purchased shortly before a gig or even a Wolfgang you can get off the shelf that's identical to what EVH uses every night.  There are features on the Red Special that they just don't bother with on the copies - like the vibrato system...

This is not really the point of the thread though, but for me outside that one example... I couldn't care less who's owned a guitar previously.

Has anyone built this into a larger enclosure with the toobs contained inside rather than sticking out, maybe in a DD?  BTW, the build docs make me laugh.