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What's that little white pedal that appeared next to the clusterfuzz? Something else in the works?

It's a "Jr" version of the Clusterfuzz I did in a 1590G. Mostly as a proof of concept. We dragged it out to see if there was any interest in it at the show. Turns out there was...so maybe we'll do something with it. It has all the knobs from the big version and two of the clipping modes (but no soft touch bypass or filter switch).

Some more pics - cross-posted from TGP

The Foxpedal booth was a real attention-grabber with its huge foxy banner


Close-up of their new delay pedal. Did not get a chance to listen to this but I talked to Curt about some of the engineering in it and it's impressive.


Our booth buddies from Swindler Effects. Drew and Sam came up from Alabama and brought a very impressive display of pedals. Some really keen engineering going on in these also...based on our discussions of their tremolo and delay, etc.



Eric and the Hungry Robot was very popular. I played through all his pedals and liked them all. I especially liked The Wash. It is a super nice and clean sounding delay with a lot of ambience. The two little green boxes on either side of his overdrive were for all sorts of clipping and tone shaping options.



The Fairfield display. I did not get a chance to play through these, but I liked the clever use of 1590A boxes for storing guitar picks


Joe and Fred from Lone Wolf Audio. LWA had an amazing number of pedals with them on their display. Plus, they had hot sauce to give away. And if you are wondering...Fred can Shred!


The Wampler area. I looked for Mr. Wampler himself a couple of times but seemed to just miss him.


The Walrus booth was probably my favorite. The wood paneling. The mini-stage for demos. The sign. These guys know what's up. Oh, and awesome products as well!


Finally, proof that Forrest and I are not the same person at our small corner.


Mark from Black Arts was just a few feet over to the left from here but I was never able to catch him for a photo. Super cool d00d, though. I also finally got to meet PaulC in person, which was great. I talked with Steve Daniels of smallbear fame and Arthur from Tailored FX for a bit. Other random encounters were the grandson of George L and a quick peek/listen to Greg Koch at the Fishman booth (god that d00d can play). All in all a fun experience from the "other side of the booth(s)".

We were packed liked sardines in our shared booth with our new buddies from Swindler Effects, Lone Wolf Audio, Hungry Robot and Fairfield Electronics. There were many stank blooze riffs played at the Dunlop booth directly behind us....all.day.long

Also took a pic of this Tele at the Fender booth that I liked a lot.

This proto was a real biatch to build. Pots got moved around, there is a small circuit on perf board underneath to fix a mistake I made on the PCB design. All very DIY. It doesn't have our soft switches in it but the production model will have those plus some different switching mode options. Anyway, just showing a little here...some ppl might guess what's going on inside just from this pic alone. I can neither confirm nor deny!

One more teaser for the Namm pedal. It sounds oh so good

There's been an uptick in the last few weeks of shipping notifications not being sent out on international orders. What's supposed to happen is I enter the tracking info into your Paypal order and Paypal automatically generates an email to you with that info. However, this has not happened for a significant # of people recently (only on international, AFAIK). If you place an order and do not get an email within 3 or so days with your tracking info this may be why.

Of course, it's totally fine to email me and ask me what's up on the shipping. If you want a quick answer you can also log into your Paypal account and look at the transaction in your history. It will show the tracking info. I do have the ability to generate shipping info emails directly from my postage software but I don't use it to avoid sending duplicate emails to customers. But, if this problem doesn't resolve soon I'll start doing that.

Whoever can answer this will be a millionaire. Seriously.

There was a temporary problem this afternoon with the 1590G "buy" buttons not working. This is now fixed. If you have this problem, try re-freshing the webpage once and that should take care of it.

A little late but the 1/2 off Sale is now live!

You can increase R9 to get more output. It's stock at 10k. Try 15k or 20k.

For Q1 bias, it's a bit unusual to not be able to dial in the right voltage with a 50k trimmer. But, you can use a 100k trimmer instead of 50k. However, changing R9 is probably easier.

That LED is an indicator that reacts to your picking and is always in an 'on' state. It will dim or light up depending on where the "Range" switch is set. If it bugs you, you could re-wire the cathode (neg side) of the LED to your bypass switch (same as where you bypass LED indicator is wired to) which would turn it off completely in bypass.

Just to be clear - the PCB itself sill fit but jacks won't. Hence the larger enclosure.

Okay there seems to be a consensus. I'll offer all of those for 1/2 price. I expect they will be available a little early---Saturday or Sunday.

You would need at least a 125BB or the recommended 1590BB Tall. It won't fit in a regular 1590BB.

[These prices will be for the Cupcake, Hipster, Kingslayer, Dirtbaby and Pig Butt. I haven't decided about the Harbinger and Current Lover.]

Cue Gob - "I've made a huge mistake"

I don't often make big expensive mistakes so I guess I'm due for one. The re-stocks I ordered from the manufacturer were accidentally made to the wrong spec (my fault). These PCBs are 0.6mm thick instead of 1.6mm thick (these are still 1oz copper--only the fiberglass backing is thinner). Rather than tossing hundreds of dollars down the drain and delaying the restocks for several more weeks, I am going to offer them at half price to make it win/win for all of us.

These prices will be for the Cupcake, Hipster, Kingslayer, Dirtbaby and Pig Butt. I haven't decided about the Harbinger and Current Lover. While the thinner boards will be fine for the smaller builds my concern with the large boards like the Harb and CL is that there is a risk of warping. This concern may be completely unfounded but since they are much more expensive builds than the others I want to minimize risk on the builder's part. What do you guys think? Should I include the HB and CL in the half-price sale or play it safe?

Here is a pic that shows the thicknesses of the new board on the left compared to the correct thickness on the right.

Lastly, the Hipster and Cupcake layout were modified for my current layout standards and the Kingslayer was done on Matte Black solder mask instead of shiny black for fun.