An Experiment in Trimming the Herd

This was a quick experiment in tone crafting: What if I removed all the various power supplies and just relied on one 9V adapter like the One Spot? What if I removed the Deluxe Electric Mistress (update: I sold it off eventually), which was non-true bypass and had a bulky 18V adapter? What if I removed the Carl Martin AC Tone, removing the first...

Read More

Cheap and Good

I know, I know. I said I’ll stop my GAS. I know I was quite proud of the fact that I managed to cut my pedalboard down to  size that I could get away with a single One Spot adapter. However, I ran into a few problems with the reduced setup: Without my AC Tone, my clean tone was “too clean”. I actually do like some dirt as a clean tone,...

Read More