Recent content by dystrust

Dot inlays are much more common, but they absolutely exist. This one isn't mine, but it wasn't too difficult to find:

I found a stupendous deal on Reverb a month or so ago... First and foremost I need to thank Securb for plugging this thing so relentlessly over the last few years. I'd never been 100% happy with the GT-500 since adding it to my board 4 1/2 years ago; the boost side isn't anything particularly...

Over the last week or so I've put the finishing touches on a project more than a year in the making. I've had rack systems before, but this is the first time I've been happy with both the sound and playing experience. The closest I'd come previously was the pedalboard I completed in late 2020...

I never planned to spend months without looking at the forum, but life has a way of getting in the way of the best laid plans. For a while toward the end of last year it was difficult to find time or even motivation to play, but finally getting some long-delayed work done on a few of my primary...

Only sort of new since I've had the checkerboard UFO since 2010 or so, but my 2nd UFO arrived via Fedex earlier today. I've played a few different Foxx Tone Machine clones over the years, and this one is definitely my favorite. Compared to a Fulltone Ultimate Octave, UFOs are a bit less woofy...

Still waiting on the refret, the Bigsby spring came and went, the wiring is done, and the knobs have been replaced with black PRS Lampshades. I also happened to find a screaming deal on eBay a couple weeks ago: The serial dates to 2003, and from the first time I picked it up I've been blown...

I took a bit of a hiatus from the forum earlier this fall because I just couldn't seem to find the time to read let alone post. GAS never rests, and I made a number of acquisitions from September through mid-November both for active pedal boards as well as the pedal drawer. Teese RMC-4...

I'm thinking about building another HH partscaster, but I'd really like a wiring scheme that I've never seen before. Specifically I want to auto-split both pickups, but have the coils connected in series while in position 2, and in parallel while in position 4. I think the following diagram...

I've wanted one of these for years, and I finally found a great deal on Reverb the other day. I mostly bought it to reclaim a couple of the 'utility' pedals from my Lead 12 board. Before buying the ParaDrive, I ran the gain on my Lead 12 around 6 and boosted with a Maxon OD-9 for a typical...

Over the last several weeks I've been working on reassembling my old recording rack. The last cables finally arrived, the patchbay is wired, and I just finished confirming all of the connections. I started recording in the early 2000s; initially with a pocket recorder and then with an...

I didn't acquire both of these at the same time, though they're both pretty recent acquisitions for my Lead 12 board. It didn't work that way in the end, but before I get to any of that, here are our new arrivals: My first thought was that I wanted both a flanger and chorus because I like...

You know what they say about the grass always being greener on the other side of the fence... I'd known about the Strymon Flint for quite a while and the demos are great, but these things are expensive. The BOSS FRV-1 and TR-2 on my board were also perfectly usable for my reverb and tremolo...

Re: The Guitars you wished you never sold The only one I really miss is #49 from the first run of Charvel San Dimas 25th Anniversary reissues. It played great and sounded just unreal; chime-y like a good ES-335. Not having a neck pickup bugged me at the time, but I think I could appreciate it...

I've wanted to install a Jimmy Page harness in my LP for years, and I really wanted the tone controls wired 50s style. I wasn't able to find a diagram like that, so I found something workable and modified it: I finished installing it in my LP Tuesday and everything works as intended...

This one is built on an old school Holeyboard courtesy of stratguy23 :thanks: Signal chain is: Pitchblack -> Pickup Booster -> Phase 90 -> Maxon OD-9 -> CH-1 -> DD-2, while power is provided by a Visual Sound One Spot. It's similar to the board I used with my 2555 years ago, when I only used...