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Nice implementation of the 2-1, especially with the order switch.

Looks like I'm going to have to build a valve pedal one of these days...  I love my Blackstar, wonder if something running off 9v gets close.

I haven't tried them, but I had a crack on the Warmoth pickguard thing, and it seemed pretty reasonable pricewise.  Dunno what it would be like to get it shipped to AU though.

I actually have a signed copy of Making Money.

I'm going to go against the grain and say the Rincewind novels aren't my favorites.  It is interesting that he moved on from our world impinging on the Discworld to more ... discworld based stories.  I enjoyed reversal of the Giant Girl climbing a building while holding an orangatang in Moving Pictures, and Soul Music was probably the first one I read because I couldn't get into the Color of Magic.

We used to start our songs with "One, two, many, lots".

The Sam Vines stuff is the best.  I like the wee blue men too.

So I'm turning into a bit of a Taylor Swift fanboy after teaching a few of her songs to some of my students.  Besides having an appealingly goofy public persona and being particularly easy on the eye, some of her songs are actually pretty cool if fairly formulmatic.

Currently teaching "Style", which a little harder than "Shake it off" (Am, C, G anyone?), and I really dig the feel of the verses (Bm to G).

So, my question is - what's going on with the clean guitar in the intro/verses?  What effects are going on there - I'm thinking a chorus (maybe an autowah?)and a *very* short delay..  Opinions?

- Super neck/headstock heavy! The body is very light, a little resonant, but the neck is pulling down a lot when you try and balance it. Haven't put a strap on it yet, so I'll see if it's better when I do.

IME that's an SG thing, they're all top heavy.

Balanced Line Driver from TH Customs

I've used this in two builds now and I'm really happy with it.  Works as advertised.  For the bass preamp side of things I like the NE-1.  Paulinthelab has a vero layout, rullywowr put up a build report with a pcb he'd designed for it.

That's bloody neat.  What's that pedal?

...two not-so-mega multis?

I'd probably do this (and pretty much have) ... dirt in one, all the other stuff in another.  Lets you put extra stuff after the dirt if you want, bit hard to put anything between the effects in the multi without the insert or loop points though.

I build for myself, so it's usually just effects I want and have chosen (as a general rule).

I dunno though.  Sometimes I figure being able to swap out individual pedals is a the way to go, but they're messier and less compact on the board, lol, and I don't really use a lot of effects anyway so it's just the essentials in the first place.

I think the answer is to do a huge multi, and then build individual pedals... Best of both worlds.

PS, you do realize that's $300 USD

It's AUD$413.. compare to an online price of $1799 for a 60's tribute.

http://www.allansbillyhyde.com.au/prod/SGTR6T5CH1/Gibson_SG%E2%84%A2_%2760s_Tribute_Electric_Guitar_%28Chocolate%29.aspx

If I wanted an SG, I'd be on it in a second.  I don't though.. but I'm tempted.

[20 kg]

This is a worry:

20 kg weight makes this a light hang on your shoulder when standing up and playing

Ok, this has just gotten wierd.  I plugged Ammocan into Boneyard, into Terminus, into my PA speaker.

I have the whine back on the low gain channel when it's dimed - but there's no whine on the hi-gain, or when the boost is engaged on the hi gain channel..  Better go back and see what happens with low-gain+boost.

Work that crap out.

That's seriously cool.  It reminds me of two things... the original Battlezone, and the old Vextrex home game machines.

I choose to begin my story now:

I starting playing guitar at 13, but always enjoyed putting things together and/or pulling them apart.  They never went back the same way - behold my cheap Watch and Game copy that I pulled apart to have a look at the internals, or the walkie talkies my grandmother gave me and my brother, or the plethora of plastic airplanes I built (some of which were shot with a rubber band peg gun later on).  My Tamiya Frog has survived, mostly, but has been upgraded to better suspension, bumpers, and the high speed motor.

I started out putting aftermarket pickups into my guitars and refinishing them.  I had a Korg a5 that I save up with my after school job, then I went to a DS-1/crybaby/TS-10 combo into a Roland DAC-50.  Later I figured I only really needed one sound and got a VS-102r cheap and used that for everything for years.

I always admired Brian May's Red Special, and generally I like to build things that I will use, or more commonly, things that I think are cool.

I can't remember exactly why or how I found about modding (one of) my DS-1 pedals, but I found an instructable on how to do the keely mods and went from there.  I decided I wanted a chorus and got Haberdasher to etch me a Little Angel and a Krankasaurus.  I got a little obsessed with the idea of dirt/boost in one box for a while there and now I've built the boneyard, dead ringer, a sprout/SHO combo, Ammocan, and the Kranky.

After I got a Blackstar HT-Dual and decided it sounds like godinabox, I decided to downsize and I got rid of my vs-102r and my bass amp, replaceing them with a single powered PA speaker, so the Boneyard in particular is an effort to get a 9v version of my *sound* (lol) instead of the power supply shenannigans that having a 16vac pedal requires.  Random Stranger is the response to needing a front end for playing bass straight into a PA.

I haven't built a *huge* number of pedals, and I think the number of failed veros is probably equal to the number of completed boxes..  Although..... thinking about it, the number of successful veros greatly outnumbers the boxes due to the multis I build!

You know, I think I'm just about done.  I just have to box this Dead Ringer etch, a madbean Hipster, a Crunchbox on vero, possibly a TS-9 on vero, and I think I'm finished.  Don't see the need to build any more pedals.  I'm going to do a 9v battery pedal powered pedalboard, and a Cioks AC-10 powered board for the HT-dual and some sort of multi, probably a Zoom G3x since it has the balanced XLR outs plus all the other effects and leave it at that I think.

Maybe one more DI cabsim with balanced outs type affair (terminus junior), but probably not.

I have a Equinox II on vero that I haven't had any luck with.  Surprisingly, I tend to have problems with the layouts on IvIark's page on projects that people think are the bee's knees.

When I was building Terminus I went though a number of boost veros to use post eq (didnt want to use one of the SHO style boosts I have lying around) at I just couldnt get to work.  Ended up using Gus' simple PNP boost.