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For sale are the following: Update: JB has sold. Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive pedal, modded with a TS-808 type mod. Sounds much better than the stock pedal, a nice overdrive. Good cosmetic condition as well. $35 shipped. Boss MT-2 Metal Zone pedal. Lots of little dings and scratches, but works...

I just got one a few days ago, and I have to say that it's probably the best heavy distortion pedal I've ever used. At stock settings, it just sounds fizzy, thin, scooped, but once the treble is tamed a little bit and the mids come out, then good tones are possible. The EQ controls are really...

Let's talk about these pedals (MT-2 Metal Zone and ML-2 Metal Core). I'm thinking about getting one, because I've heard some nice tones with them, and the few times I've tried a Metal Zone, I was able to get some pretty good tones, in my opinion (extra mids, not that buzzy, scooped tone that...

It looks like Marshall is discontinuing the Guv'nor Plus pedal, which I was pretty surprised to see. Does anyone know exactly why this is being done? Or if they have any plans to replace it with anything else? Tonally, the closest pedal to it is probably the Jackhammer, but that's really meant...

When I buy new pots, I just get whatever CTS pots are sold at the usual places. But I find that they're not all that smooth, and that some cheap Alpha pots I have feel nicer. Then I tried a custom-made fuzz pedal that my friend owns, and the pots used for the knobs are ridiculously smooth --...

Ever heard of a person pairing a Pearly Gates with a JB? I haven't, but it occured to me the other day that this could be an excellent combination. Both have a bit of a bright voicing, have a bump in the upper-mids that gives them a bit of a singing quality, are harmonically rich, sensitive to...

Have you ever used an EQ pedal to fake another pickup? For instance, turning up the treble range and dipping the mids and bass (mids dipped a bit more than bass), to get a more single coil type tone out of a fat humbucker? Or sculpting the EQ more like that of a high output humbucker, for better...

I've tried the JB split before, but it was in a mahogany guitar that wasn't very close to a Strat (thick lower-mids). So I'm wondering if people who have taken a closer look at it can give me some insight. How close, tonally, is the split JB to a real Strat single coil? And also, how close is...

For those of you who have shipped guitars, how do you do it? I'm assuming a hard shell case is necessary? And some sort of packaging to cover it? Are boxes used, and if so, how would you find the right sized boxes? Also, what service works best for it? UPS, FedEx, or USPS?

Lightly used Marshall Jackhammer overdrive / distortion pedal. Gets a nice and clear high-gain JCM800 sort of sound. Comes with original box and instructions, and a battery of course. It's been eBay'd (a short, 3-day auction), starting at $35...

I set up a guitar with a 59/DD combination, and compared it to my preferred guitar, which has a Jazz/JB set, for quite awhile yesterday. I'm planning on scaling back to one guitar, and I wanted to determine my set for it. The pickups are in similar mahogany body, maple neck Strat-type guitars...

From what I understand, a volume pot is working as a variable voltage divider. With normal wiring, when a volume control is turned down, resistance is added to the tone control circuit that it is connected to, which filters out more of the treble, leaving a duller tone. My question is that if...

Everyone knows about the classic combo of an SD-1 into a JCM800, to push the amp hard with a very strong signal. But is it possible to, say, run an SD-1 into a distortion pedal in the same way? Would cranking the volume on the overdrive to "10" blow anything in the distortion pedal? I have a...

I was just messing around with the Duncan Amps Tone Stack Calculator, and an idea dawned on me. Looking at the Marshall tone stack frequency response, it's clear that the lowest frequencies are highly attenuated, and the highest frequencies are rounded off as well. I think that this frequency...

I have an Ibanez RG321MH (mahogany RG), that I've been swapping pickups in ever since I got it. These are the different pickup combinations I've tried in it: Jazz-n / JB Jazz-n / Jazz-b (with A2 and A4) Jazz-n / Full Shred-b Jazz-n / JB (250k pots, tried with A8, with hex screws, etc.) Jazz-n /...