Royston

Pretty hard to find these for sale in the UK. I got mine from a short lived shop in Manchester called 'Tone World' (fun fact: a super boutique shop which mostly seemed to sell Johnny Marr and Noels touring gear! - I even tried a real Klon in there) Doug Kauer does indeed make exceedingly good guitars. Really good build quality. Great attention to detail. 50s thick profile necks. They come in many pickup variations. I ended up with straight double humbuckers. Very much a Gibson Les Paul killer. But with the off-set goodness of a chunky Jaguar. One of the best recording guitars i have ever owned. Worth going to try one before you buy one, as there is nothing quite like it on the market. My only downer on it, i don't like the Wenge fingerboard, looks a bit too weird. I prefer Ebony, but hey thats as good as gone due to CITES. I was lucky to get mine. If you search google I own the one off Gulf racing colours model. Orange and blue all the way!

I can personally vouch for this bass, as i now own it! :D I much prefer late 70s to early 80s Rickenbackers over the modern 4003 models. This one has quite a reassuringly round thick neck profile. I read that many of the 60s and early 70s basses had issues with head stocks snapping as back in the day they were made for flat wound strings. (so yeah Rotosound) Anyway, i run round wounds 105-45 in E standard and its ok with that. Probably needs the truss roads replacing as its had a hard life. What i love about Rickenbacker basses is you can really drive a song with the tone it puts out. I mostly played old school punk and new wave it worked amazingly well in the 'power trio' environment. Almost as good as a 2nd guitarist, but less of the back chat.

Much underrated drive pedal. I find it works great with chords and with solos. I played mostly punk and new wave with this and it really worked for me. Pretty much Brian May sound in a stomp box. I own a 70s AC30, and yes this is very close in tone to that. I also own the Mk1 version of this pedal with the extra top boost on / off switch. I much prefer the Mk2 always on boost. It is a better fit to most pedal boards, stacks well with other drives and fuzzes. Quite easy to get a good sound without reading manuals etc.

So many usable settings in this pedal should justify the price. It aint cheap compared to picking up a TS9. but hey why not have have 9 of them. My fave is the EXAR OD-1 setting... not very tube screamer, but a solid drive for all weathers. Owning this pedal has saved me 3 pedal slots on my board and killed off some of the gear acquisition for the short term.

Didnt realise that these were so rare when i sold mine. so i tried to buy another one. Fenders made in Korea a future classics. Fender make a JA Jim Atkins model which is close to this.

Great for gigging, and great for the studio. Like a Fender but better. This amp does clean really well. It takes pedals the best of any of the amps i own. i love the reverb.

Im a big fan of the whole Cabronita thing. Unlike most guitar companies Fender try stuff at custom shop. I the people like it they make models at all price points. I like this bass as its very easy to play. Gretsch style pickup makes a nice change to the normal P split coils. its pretty simple looking, but thats its strength. less is more in this case.

Dont be fooled by the no frills look. Its a real solid beater. prices seem a bit mad these days. but well better than any modern low end Gibson in my opinion.

Chunky Marshall drive sounds. Much more gain than the yellow Charlie. One of the better ODs ive owned. Only draw back is that JHS pedal tend to be slighly taller than most. This can make a bit harder to get on your pedal board. Having said tha JHS make very good quality pedals.

Modern re-issue of the classic. solves a few issues with true by pass and an LED on. different sound to the classic pedal. a little bit thin as drives go. but this pedal works very well with others. stacks with other drives really well. it the secret behind the 32 tens guitar sound mixed with a ZVEX super hard on.

Very musical sounding boost. works well with other drives and fuzz pedals. cool split outputs. fairly small footprint. only draw back its its a right to left set up. can be hard to get on a small pedal board. I run mine in a loop rather than infront or behind my chain.

If you are looking to build a good cheese board of guitar tones, you would do well to have a look at the DLS. It is one of many 'Marshall in a box' pedals. What makes this for me is that its an easy pedal to get a good tone from. Controls are layed out like an amp. The gain interacts very much like a Marshall DSL which is good for me. Fairly common so they dont go for loads 2nd hand.

Big Box but dont let that put you off. Quite Klon like overdrive. Sounds like a more expensive pedal than it is. Works better with some other drives than others. Its a case of try out early and later in your effects chain.

Nice small drive, but didnt last long on my board. prefered the Saucy and Soul food. price of these has dropped so better value these days!

Noisey, quite a disapointment in switching world, for the money it should be better.

Angry Charlie beats this hands down as a drive pedal. For me this was more like an expensive boost. Dispointed, sold it on quickly. Other JHS pedals are much better.

When these 1st came out i thought they were great. After longer use found it added weird digital noise to my signal chain. The mini tuner seems not to be as bad. Not a big fan of BOSS but get a TU-3. its better.

Really rate this. Super quiet. Small and fits great under pedaltrains. Would like a DC 10. Reccomended.

For the money this is one of the best small isolated power supplies going. not quite a CIOCKs but about half the price. great for small boards. quiet.

Its not isolated. i had terrible trouble with this on fuzz pedals. Got a Fuel tank JR, much better.