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I was thinking "how much weed do you have to smoke to dream up a setup like that???"

I know Ronnie Montrose used a live rig with a Princeton miked into a mixing board and then would apply all effects on their own channels before it went to front of house.  That set up pales in comparison to your request though.

Wow, nice to see the old thread revived.  Sad to go back and see a lot of names that have dropped out of pedal sites.

Great build and great demo as always!

Very nicely done.

That looks very cool.  I can remember etching this one as well, having got ambitious and doing a bunch of the Etcher's Paradise layouts.

Congrats and wishing you the best in the market.  It's good to see you being able to step away and follow your heart.

I lost my job about 14 years ago and I totally understand the "dark period" you went through.  I had a number of people tell me it would be the best thing that happened to me.  While I thought they were out of their minds, in hindsight it really was.

Whoa, how cool is this!!??

Thanks for posting that Brian.  Having started this venture back when you had to learn to etch your own boards from Tonepad it's safe to say I've been around for a while.  You gotta take care of yourself.

It would be nice to get some community back in house and I've been pretty lax about perking up about anything either here or over at Robert's.  I'm lazy but need to get a bit more involved.  I've been playing a lot more lately in a variety of scenarios so it's not like I don't have lots to talk about and repairs lets me see all kinds of odd stuff.

That looks great, you're using the laser to great effect.  I agree, too, this is a cool sounding board.  I tend to use mine as more of an overdrive than its origins would suggest.

I like that two tone fade paint!

Hey man, good to see you back!  You took a huge hit on all sides so good on you for rolling back in (in any form).  I think getting parts is as good or better than ever with a few peeps (stompboxparts) stepping up their game.  Prices are a bit over the norm with Mouser actually detailing what the tariff hit is. 

I've transitioned more to repairs than builds these days and there's still all kinds of sources available for anything.  I've had to do a lot of Takamine and Ibanez guitar repairs lately and sites pop up for stuff I figured would be unobtainium.

Damn, another winner.  You have some of my fave demo's: great tone to begin with, no overplaying, nice and direct, and no banter.  Great looking and sounding pedal!!!

Ahhh, that's where the parts tester comes in handy.  I tell myself it's to double check values but in reality I can barely see the color bands on the litte mf'ers

I use 1/8 watt exclusively now.  Which is why my pedals sound like ass.

Oh they do not...I like 1/8 because they're cheap and I use one of those little plastic benders so that the footprint to 1/4 is clean.

Very impressive, but I'd argue it's not really music.  Then again I'm old so music tends to need a melody or a hook of some sort.  Having come thru the Mahavishnu Orchestra only to need to play Sex Pistols and Ted Nugent to audiences to get paid I suppose it's skewed my perception.  I can certainly appreciate it but if that's music then what I do isn't.

And certainly no offense intended.  I love that new mediums are being explored.  The fact that I have a "real job" makes me more judgmental, in that I was never able to sustain myself in a musical career.  I hate to think what my younger self would think of this stuff.
 

That's so cool, and your usual killer demo.  Great board!