by JD Sleep | Jan 31, 2021 | Demos
One of our regular customers recently asked me about this demo on our YouTube channel. I had forgotten that I had done the demo years ago. It is a good demonstration of what the “UniVibe” mod sounds like on the Phase 45™ Kit. Very easy mod just replace...
by JD Sleep | Jan 20, 2021 | Demos
A quick demo by Jarrad, a recent builder of our 3-Knob Tone Bender™ (TB3 Fuzz Kit). This is with the silicon NPN transistors that come with the kit. Awesome sounds! Maybe there is no need to source Germanium Transistors for your kit.Tone Bender™ 3-knob Project...
by JD Sleep | Jan 6, 2021 | Blog
A few months ago Andy posted a dedicated demo of a General Guitar Gadgets Kit on his Andy Demos YouTube channel! It should be noted that you would need to source your Germanium transistor set to sound like Andy’s (kit includes transistor sockets). Project Page...
by JD Sleep | Dec 4, 2020 | Blog, Build Tips
Tip of the day: Don’t build your kit out of the...
by JD Sleep | Jul 11, 2018 | Blog
Most stompbox authorities would probably scoff at the idea of a Silicon transistor version of the Fuzz Face™ with the “common” 2N3904″ transistors. However this is exactly what it is and it is my (JD’s) favorite version of the kit that we...
by JD Sleep | Aug 8, 2016 | Blog, Website Updates
View this is a youtube video demo of the Valve Junior with a Marshall™ Mini Stack and the description of a Speaker Patch Box. The demo music is an abbreviated version of my best recollection of a song (Cover of Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say”)...
by JD Sleep | Aug 3, 2016 | Blog
This is a Demo of the General Guitar Gadgets “J1” Booster (StratoBlaster Replica with an input cap). We demo’ed a bit of the boosted sound and then what you can do with the “J1” into a distortion stompbox and then the “J1”...
by JD Sleep | Jul 17, 2016 | Blog
Several years ago, I bought some speaker cabinets (cheap) from the bass player in the band I was playing guitar for at the time. It was a Fender™ Bassman cab from the mid 60’s and a couple of those single 10 inch Marshall™ speaker cabs that make the little mini...
by JD Sleep | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog
Some of you who have been involved in do-it-yourself guitar effects for more than a decade will probably remember the days when all 125B enclosures had grooves all around the inside of the enclosures. This was probably 10 to 15 years ago. The word was that the...
by JD Sleep | Oct 20, 2015 | Blog
Many regular browser of our site might not realize all of the many the Tone Bender™ variations we have on the site. We have a plethora of Tone Bender™ variations, some of which are shown in the photo above. They vary greatly in sound and tone, but they all have...
by JD Sleep | Sep 25, 2015 | Blog
Editor’s note, October 2026: the dates in this post were written from memory in 2015 and have been corrected against the site’s own records. The site went up in 1998, and ready-to-solder PCB sales began in January 2002.General Guitar Gadgets started as a...
by JD Sleep | Sep 8, 2015 | Blog
In an effort to let you know more about our business practices, this blog is about our business philosophy.We strive to provide the high level of quality products and service that we ourselves would wish to receive when we buy online from other companies. We want to...
by JD Sleep | Aug 14, 2015 | Website Updates
We have a couple of new compressor kits. They are based on the Ibanez™ BP10™ Bass Compressor and CP10™ Compressor. These are really great compressors that were somewhat over-shadowed by the bad reputation and unpopularity that the short lived “10 Series”...
by JD Sleep | Jun 21, 2015 | Blog, Build Tips, Tools
In this installment of tool discussion, we will talk about desoldering. In my opinion, it’s one of the most difficult aspects of building guitar effects. If you are perfect, you may never need to desolder any parts and that’s great, but…...
by JD Sleep | Jun 12, 2015 | Blog
We are starting a series of blogs that will give some insight and opinions on the tools we use to create DIY guitar effects here at General Guitar Gadgets. This will take several installments, but it will be informative and interesting. Hopefully other builders will...
by JD Sleep | May 27, 2015 | Blog
When I think of the “stars” of DIY guitar effects I usually think of Craig Anderton, Robert Penfold, Nicolas Boscorelli or John Simonton. Or, I think about my internet heroes, such as R.G. Keen, Jack Orman and Aron Nelson. The other day I was thinking...
by JD Sleep | May 22, 2015 | Blog, Building Guitar Effects, Website Updates
For the first time in General Guitar Gadgets’ history we are discontinuing one of our kits. When attempting to resupply our stocks of VTL5C2/2 optical modules, we found them to be nearly double the price of our previous purchase. With our cost of the optical...
by JD Sleep | May 13, 2015 | Blog
I attended a talent show last night. After the show I was talking to one of the guitar players in the band that had played earlier. He had only been playing guitar for less than six months. He said a couple things that made me think. 1)”There’s always...
by JD Sleep | May 6, 2015 | Blog, Website Updates
You may have noticed that there is a new “Tab”* on the website labeled “Schematics”. Long ago we thought it would be a good idea to have a central place where all the schematics were listed on one page. So the page has been buried in the...
by JD Sleep | Apr 20, 2015 | Blog
Analog Man wrote an excellent article for Reverb.com about Marshall™’s distortion pedal “The Guv’nor”. Check out the article HERE. In the article he mentions that there are kits available. That would be us, General Guitar Gadgets!...
