Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Rack Mounted Vaporizer

WHY DIDN'T WE THINK OF THIS.

not that I smoke marjuana, but this is too good to be true.



Friday, March 25, 2011

Fucking plane internet

En route to Olympia via Seattle via Las Vegas by airplane...

Had a nice two week vacation to Zion Nat'l park. Lots of sun, rocks, walks, dogs, etc.

Chung Antique's tour should wind up soon and I'll get a chance to check out how Mike B's custom Buttfuzz held up to the rigors of the road. Hopefully with his feedback I'll be able to have a few ideas on how to improve it. I'm already thinking a deep switch is going into the next one.

Ordered parts for a new pedal I'm working on. It'll be based off of the classic Silicon Fuzz Face with a lot more tweakability: switchable input caps and transistors, voltage starve, etc.

Anyways, back to work in a few days.

Hope the Chung tour kicked ass.
-E

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Music from Buttronix HQ, the Blue House!

Last night, a veritable Bass-Guitar shredfest happened at Buttronix HQ. (-O-) [Ti Fighter] came all the way from Chicago to celebrate the beginning of tolerable weather in Olympia. Naturally the attendees were provided with sub-par weather.

Anyways, first up was our good friends and Buttronix users Chung Antique. Olympia's reigning Math Rock fiends kicked off the night with 32 minutes of face melting music.



Next up were (-O-). Made up of two bassists and one rock-solid drummer, (-O-) definitely brought the rock. It was overheard that it sounded like there were two Bob Weston's lurking in the basement.


So its not the greatest fidelity, but what can you do with a cheap Alesis mixer and 2 SM58's and 2 Behringer condensors.



This is our current home on the web.

This is a two-channel preamp-booster pedal built for Ryan Slagle of Raleigh, NC's Tunnels Under the Citadel. It features two identical circuits designed to boost the volume of the guitar without adding any extra distortion. Each circuit has been voiced to add a certain amount of "warmth" to the input signal. The toggle switch in the upper right corner controls whether the two circuits are cascaded into each other or routed to separate outputs. A similar circuit voiced for more bass is built into Mike B's (Chung Antique) Fuzz/Preamp pedal. Cool, huh?