"Because it's there."

[icecycle66]

I mean, how much distortion does one guy need? 

All of it.

[bcalla]

So far I have built about 2 dozen guitar pedals and 1 bass pedal (compressor).

I mostly play guitar at home - using DVD or PC based courses.  A few times per year I jam with friends.  So I don't really 'need' any of the guitar pedals I have built.

The only 2 times I played for an audience in the past year I was on bass & didn't even use the compressor I built.

[billstein]

A hobby is frivolous anyway, no harm no foul!

I like that. Now if I can get you to call my wife and explain it to her...

[jimilee]

A hobby is frivolous anyway, no harm no foul!

I like that. Now if I can get you to call my wife and explain it to her...

check please!

[Stomptown]

A hobby is frivolous anyway, no harm no foul!

I like that. Now if I can get you to call my wife and explain it to her...

+1 

[Clayford]

It's a hobby with certain need for another hobby. I build for the challenge and to support independent designers like midway fair and Rej. I will end up with about 3 tremolos now with no real need for any, and everyone needs 10 delays, right?

But think of all the phasers Jimi!

[jimilee]

It's a hobby with certain need for another hobby. I build for the challenge and to support independent designers like midway fair and Rej. I will end up with about 3 tremolos now with no real need for any, and everyone needs 10 delays, right?

But think of all the phasers Jimi!

Would you believe I have 5 phaser pcb's unbuilt? And about twice that many i've built.

[gordo]

Can't pass this one up.  Nothing to do at all with pedal building so major thread de-railment but here's a nice treat.  The late, great Michael Hedges - "Because It's There"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTC7kPZZmuM

[billstein]

Can't pass this one up.  Nothing to do at all with pedal building so major thread de-railment but here's a nice treat.  The late, great Michael Hedges - "Because It's There"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTC7kPZZmuM

Thanks for the derailment. What an unbelievable talent he was. I started buying his music after I heard Steve Vai had said he was the best guitarist he'd ever heard.

I like what Bonnie Raitt said about him.
"In Michael's hands, a guitar was a living, breathing extension of his deepest parts. It's almost as if he got so inside its body that the instrument was reborn. His passion for creating those exquisite melodies and technique was as focused as it was abandoned. There was simply no one like him."

[chromesphere]

Ive been on holiday for less then a week and I think ive broken out from a rash from no pedal building...or maybe its heat rash...or I got bitten...anyway, I guess this view will have to distract me from this torture...

[alanp]

Haha Have fun, be careful not to be bitten by Australian spiders, or australian snakes, or australian beer, or...

Better go to Rotorua, I think

[chromesphere]

Lol thanks alan. My folks went to New Zealand recently loved it. Have to go there one day. They really need to lock up that guy in the crazy armor though...sauron Lord of something...could have been politics I think...

[pedalman]

With all those pedals you need this board
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdw50D2v64w

[alanp]

Just started a TH sea urchin project (submitted just now.) Should be moderately hairy.

Thought I'd let you guys know what I'm up to on this --



Deep Blue Delay, using the MB Sea Urchin schematic, on a board of my own design (Shotglass is for scale.) Sea Flea! I'll post a proper report once I've boxed it up. A lot more clarity in this one than the Cavedweller.

[muddyfox]

Better go to Rotorua, I think

Rotorua? Is that the place where they try to wean you off solder fumes by using sulfur fumes?