Recent content by Liko

Re: Digitech Bad Monkey Overdrive The Bad Monkey, as others have said, is a good little TS clone. The two-band EQ really helps shape tone, where a true three-knob TS circuit forces you to learn to like the mid bump, with a Bad Monkey you have a half-decent chance to EQ it out. I have the...

Kind of a roundabout way to this pedal. While looking for a good digi-delay (see earlier thread), I happened upon Henning Pauly's review of the Source Audio Collider delay/reverb (https://youtu.be/wPpTs02YYiE). Great pedal, a little more expensive than what I was looking for, no dedicated tap...

I basically need a delay in pedal form that will give me one exact copy of the input, delayed by a sixteenth-note interval. Obviously it should be able to do far more than that, but a pedal that can't do this doesn't meet my short-term sonic needs. That generally shakes out to the following...

The Anderton's guys, for obvious reasons, push these pretty hard on top of whatever else they're testing: anMQCsEXhlU They certainly look the part, and I can't fault the tones Cap & Chap are getting. Does anyone have more hands-on experience with these? $170 sounds steep for gain, but a quick...

Yeah, question of the ages perhaps, but my interests range across many genres, while money is, as often happens, in much shorter supply than inspiration. Long story short, I've been lurking around looking for a true tube circuit that will take me from true cleans up through, let's say 90s hard...

Re: I finally did it... NWGD Well, since Aceman is teasing, I figure I'll give the goods. SHE'S DONE!!! I thought about signing the headstock, giving myself a literal "signature Strat", but with it unfinished, I'm worried about bleed along the grain. Just the dots I used to mark pilot...

Re: I finally did it... NWGD More pictures. Sorry I haven't been on, but between my new job and actually putting this axe together, I've had enough late nights as it is. As close as I have to a "before" picture; nothing wired, just the pickups and selector switch installed. Notice the four...

Re: I finally did it... NWGD There were a couple of boxes waiting on my kitchen island when I got home today... It's here, it's finally here! Neck first: The roasted maple is beautiful, the pictures aren't doing it justice. There's the subtlest hint of flame in places on the back of the...

After literally years of hemming, hawing, saving, spending and almost giving up, the tax refund was bigger than expected this year, and I finally pulled the trigger on my Warmoth/Duncan "Swiss Army Strat". She'll be swamp ash, finished in trans blue satin with a black pearl guard and roasted...

I'm currently playing a Hot Rodded set in my Epiphone LP Studio, worn brown finish (so no maple cap). The Jazz is wonderful, clean or dirty. The JB really only sounds good in hard overdrive or full distortion; in clean or mild overdrive it's just not working for me, way too nasal, an obvious...

Still tinkering on paper with my "everything axe" based on an HSH Strat. The current question is, which trem? My two current Strats are both Highway-1s with the vintage 6-hole trem, but neither of them has the arm installed, partially cause I don't use them much, but also cause I lost the only...

Short and sweet this time. What would I get if I swapped the A5 magnet on my JB for A2? Is there a Duncan model that does this? Do you think it'd be too middy (the overwound coil coupled with a magnet that tends to emphasize mids)? I'm basically looking to add a little A2 air to the tone but...

I like the JB dirty, but I'd also like a good clean bridge tone, and the JB's a bit nasal for my tastes in my all-mahogany LP. I'm interested in the Custom Custom for a still-hot but less stuffy-sounding profile, or the Custom for the "More PAF"-type bridge instead of the overwound sound. I'm...

This question interests me. I've been twiddling with wiring diagrams for my P-Rail based "Swiss Army Strat" HSH build, and I realized I may be a switchaholic. Here's the current list of doodads I definitely want in this build: * P-Rail coil configuration (P-90-HB-Rail and S/P; two slide or...

New Car Day! My '05 Subaru Legacy got sideswiped late last year, leaving the driver door barely functioning. Coupled with the A/C quitting just before it turned cold, and a couple of electrical gremlins that popped up over the winter, I decided it was time to put her to pasture. She had a...