Favourite guitarists/why we build?

Jovi Bon Kenobi said:
I just pulled out my Strat and was reminded of this old thread. Last Christmas I treated myself to some new pickups for my 84 Tokai Strat (refinished by me) since I wasn't a fan of what was in it. Tym Guitars partnered up with Mick Brierley and Isaiah Mitchell to put out a small batch of Signature Pickups. It was a really small batch through Tym and they didn't have any left so I reached out to Mick Brierley in Australia and he made a set of them for me. Anywho, while I was at it installing them, I added a push button out of phase switch because I love the thin, hollow, nasally sound. I also used a Schaller megaswitch and wired it like normal except for position 3 to be neck and bridge pickup instead of middle alone since I never use just the middle pickup.

This thing absolutely rips now and I just love it.
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Sweet! Which pickup gets reversed by the push button?
 
The bridge pickup. Really, it only makes position 2 & 3 out of phase or normal. The rest are unaffected by pushing it. But it's pretty great and I'm happy with it being a tiny button in easy reach.
 
I'm one of those that struggles with this topic.

While I see the value of picking a guitar virtuoso, learning their techniques, building a repetition in the genre, capturing their tone. As much as I want to be able to do that, I can't settle on any guitarist or genre. Very frustrating.
 
There are too many great guitarists to name a favorite. If I had to choose, I would want to emulate either Stevie Ray or Jimi, but I don't have their fingers so it wont happen. :ROFLMAO:
I build pedals to give me something to do and because I'm a cheap skate. Not really, but my youngest daughter took up guitar, and buying pedals for two people was a bit pricey. I started building them myself and they sound great so why not. My daughters chain is completely hand built with the exception of a flanger! The BBD chips are hard to find, and trying to find a pcb I like for one is tough.
 
Nostradoomus said:
Have you tried electric druids flangelicious?
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I looked at it, but at the time they were out of chips. So to get her through until I found one to build I bought her a cheapo JOYO flanger. I hate to say it but its not a bad flanger. Its no electric mistress or even a BF-3 but it gives her the sound she was looking for. She threw a few chorus pedals in there a she got The Cure tone she was looking for. I'll have to check the ED Flangelicious again. Then again if I can find the BBD chips I may just layout a board myself and have it made.
 
It's interesting to revisit this thread. When I first got into amp and FX building it was very much to try capture "the sound on my head". I don't know exactly where that sound came from but I have long had very strong feelings about what I want my guitar to sound like. Of course I have a range of sounds I enjoy and want to use, but one particular sound stands out to me and i have never actually heard anyone achieve it. Bizarrely, probably the closest I have found is probably a fella called Paul Pigat of Cousin Harley fame. And I only found out about him through the Gretsch Pages.

I love some of Gilmour's sounds but have little use for them in the music I play. And I love SRV's tone and playing but squirm when I hear lesser players trying to do that stuff. I think a lot of what I like about a player is their playing more than their tone, much in the way that I might admire a singer who can make the most of their not necessarily wonderful voice.

I love some of the sounds Brian Setzer gets, but in general pedals won't get me there. And I love BRMC but don't sound anything like them. I wish I could get the guitar sound off She Said She Said or Band on the Run. I still can't.

This guitar sound quest is never-ending. :)
 
Chas Grant said:
I looked at it, but at the time they were out of chips. So to get her through until I found one to build I bought her a cheapo JOYO flanger. I hate to say it but its not a bad flanger. Its no electric mistress or even a BF-3 but it gives her the sound she was looking for. She threw a few chorus pedals in there a she got The Cure tone she was looking for. I'll have to check the ED Flangelicious again. Then again if I can find the BBD chips I may just layout a board myself and have it made.
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Have you tried Cool Audio’s BBD’s? They’re new production and sound pretty damn good. Stompbox parts and smallbear carry them.
 
dlazzarini said:
Have you tried Cool Audio’s BBD’s? They’re new production and sound pretty damn good. Stompbox parts and smallbear carry them.
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I’ve looked at the cool audio chips and wondered about them. I haven’t heard them that I know of, doesn’t mean I haven’t though. Maybe I will check them out Electric Druid is supposed to be getting a shipment of the PCBs soon, might have to order it. A flanger is the one pedal I haven’t built yet. OH Snap I guess it’s time to piss the wife off with another order!?
 
I think back to being 19 having had a full time job at my parents restaurant and saving every penny I made to build a rig that would resemble my two idols Jimi Hendrix and Warren Haynes. I had a marshall half stack and a fender twin i would switch between and a pedal board with genuine roger mayer pedals.

One day the very expensive non pedalboard friendly Axis Fuzz ran out of juice. I unscrewed the back to change the battery and almost shit myself when I realized I spent so much on parts I had seen at Radio Shack. That pedal was sold along with almost everything else and this journey started.

So here I now have my dream studio, using amps, pedals, guitars, preamps, microphones, cables, sound panels I built, setting at a desk I designed and built typing this.

All because of a Roger Mayer Axis Fuzz with its ridiculous enclosure.
 
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