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!...
by JD Sleep | Apr 19, 2015 | Blog
In our world of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) stompboxes, the possibilities are limitless. One of the main attractions to DIY effects is that you can add “bells and whistles”, extra controls for all kinds of parameters. I am a heavy-duty DIY stompbox builder, but...
