Recent content by Gr8Scott

Found two potential "amps" locally. One is a Shure Voicemaster that is supposedly 400 watts and has two 5' tall speakers with it. The second is a Bogen MX60a that hasn't been turned on in 20 years. I don't know if the Bogen works or not. Given the gut shots I see on the Bogen, it looks like...

Met a cool 16 year old guitarist who wanted the Grail over the Verbzilla he had. I brought him the power adapter for the Grail and we parted ways after talking gear for a bit and then I went to Northern Tool & Supply and shopped for tools and a trailer hitch for my truck. He seemed like a nice...

Looks like Brian Setzer's autograph on it. It's in LA BTW for anyone who may be interested. CORRECTION - NOT 60's ERA. It's apparently from the 70's given the model number. Looks like the 136th instrument made in January of 1976 given the serial number.

I have one fairly traditional strat loaded with Area 58's and one that has noiseless single coils in it from Bill Lawrence (the L200S Neck, L280S Mid and L290 Bridge). Though I was happy with the tone of the L290, I felt that the whole guitar could use a bit more output and I wanted a change...

Mine arrived on Monday, but I didn't have time to mess with it due to having to work on my Nephew's birthday present into the wee hours last night. Tonight was his birthday party (sort of) and I went home at 10:30 to finally get that sweet piece of gear out of the box and hooked up finally. So...

Man am I digging this pedal. I've always wondered how Kim Thayil got the sustain and sweet woman tone he did on "Rusty Cage" and now I know. He had to have used a Big Muff. I'm sure there are other ways, but none that are as surefire as using a big muff and a neck pickup. You get the...

I bought a complete set to try out. Thus far I'm liking them. They sound pretty darned good at first blush. Mounted them with the "v" shaped portion of the pickup facing the bridge and the taller pole pieces are on the side of the heavier strings (the low E etc) instead of the lighter...

Sorry for the delay in getting this to you folks. I was just a little impatient in getting what I could out there to show off a little of what I had done. THIS is the cool part IMHO. Still not all that cool yet is it... See how the pedal board is mounted on hinges that have been...

I'm giving you a sneak peek at my almost completed pedal board. I'm showing you the board itself first to give you an idea of how it will be set up. It's a slanted dual deck affair with room enough to hold 12 pedals of standard size. Please note that not all the pedals you see will be used on...

For the record, I'm not going to buy one looking for crunchy tones. That isn't what fuzzes are good for IMHO. They are good at taking a very focused kind guitar sound and turning it into a loose and indistinct almost keyboard-like tone. Very different than most of the tones I have in my rig...

I've been eyeballing a cheap DIY pedal board case for a while now. I haven't ordered it yet because I just haven't had the time or the extra funds to purchase it (even though it was cheap). I finally found a couple on the web for cheap enough that I bit and paid the extra in shipping ($19 in...

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I get to live vicariously through Kevlar3000 in his amp hunting expeditions. He knows a guy somewhere who has this incredibly obscure piece of amp history from the corner of leo-fender's armpit and then next thing you know the darned thing is sitting...

I've got my old metal case Fabtone out and I'm going back over some of the previous mods to this pedal and I'm thinking really hard about adding some additional mods to it. This pedal has WAY too much treble and the treble control almost needs to be dropped to the minimum setting to do any...

I know I'm still in the honeymoon phase with my JCM-800 2204, but man this thing sounds incredible with the Edana cranked up right beside it. Those huge KT66 tubes throw out a large amount of bass and the EL34 tubes have that unmistakable growl to them. Together they sound like the most...

I took a few pics of the guts and the cleanup process of the 2204. This thing was pig-anus nasty on the outside of the chassis and the tolex. I mean it looks like it was in a pigeon coop or something. Lots of work and more than a little purple power went into getting as much dirt out as is...