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 | 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...
