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My homemade pedal board has the basics: room for a power strip, a patchbay and maybe one more effect.
My second son is due any day now, so naturally my “nesting” reflexes have ramped up. I just finished my pedal board, using 1/4″ plywood, various hardware from Parts Express, and Velcro-type loop from Stompin-Ground.
What does a pedal board have to do with preparing for a newborn? Nothing really, (more…)
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The Valvecaster, originally designed by a Japanese man named Matsumin, uses 9v to power a 12AU7 tube. Not an ideal voltage for the tube heater, it can be modified easily to run on 12V.
This weekend I completed a tube-based pedal which was originally designed as a “Tube boost + overdive running off a 9 volt battery” (See the Matsumin Valvecaster at DIYStompboxes.com). I don’t own a tube amp, but play regularly through a Fender Twin Reverb at our rehearsal studio. If you’ve read my other posts, you know by now that I’m always looking for economical alternatives to achieving, well, almost anything. And in these economic times, that is paramount.
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I’d like to share some poetry that my old friend Jay Braden (Austin, TX) wrote in response to the tracks on my EP. Here they are, in their complete, colored-fonts glory.
The Remote is in Your Hands
Grey is the sound of a winter beach
Grey is the distance that I must reach
twist the boredom
and look for the spark
we see the light better
after stumbling through dark
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