damn, i just got excited that the build guide was up or a pre-order was ready... i've been holding off on the GGG for a long time waiting for this one... I'm so inpatient. I've been contemplating a musicpcb meatball clone, but the mutron just sounds so good.
I might even mod my guitar to have the jerry garcia effects loop just for the mutron. If you're not hip to this idea, check it out. basically you install a buffer (he used an inverting opamp unity gain buffer) in your guitar and run from your pickup selector and tone pots to the buffer out the buffer to the the tip of a stereo jack. run a y cable out and some of your effets that you want to receive the same amount of volume to at all time- run the out of the effects board up the other side of the y cable back into your guitar and into a 25k volume pot then out your regular jack. This allows your mutron to receive full volume at all times no matter where your volume knob is. VERY cool- allows you to use the mutron so much better with overdrive and other effects with so much more predictable results. and the buffer before the volume pot apparently gives you the best volume control ever- perfect response and taper if you use a good one supposedly. another way to do this would be to run a volume pedal after the mutron and use the volume pedal to control your ouput volume. it also seems to have given jerry more ability to mess with pick dynamics and have the mutron respond to them better. he doe some awesome quiet picking low volume mutron licks. once you try it, you'll need it.
isnt that an ingenious idea though? very cool for germanium fuzz, delay, phaser i'd imagine. its kinda cool being able to pick softly and have your distortion distort the same way too- i much prefer the clean up ability, but its a cool novelty. i'm surprised more effects geeks dont set their guitars up like this
i've been wanting this so bad for so long, but dont wanna do the GGG layout because the wiring is a freakin beast. hopefully we're getting pcb pots on this one!!!! can we vote to give this project priority?!?!?
