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The ‘SCRAM!BLAM!’ pedal
A local made Ampeg Scrambler clone… As I mentioned in the previous post, I’m a fan of local made pedals. For one thing… I amazed that anyone could build one of these things and make it work. It’s...
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Mike’s Garage Gear Pedals
Some awesome local made pedals from Mike’s garage. Us guitarists are pretty spoilt here in Brisbane. Along with being the home of Tym Guitars who makes world class custom pedals, amps & guitars,...
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Zoom Driver 5000
Yeah, yeah… I know it’s not exactly ‘vintage’. But this is one of my favourite pedals ever. Back in my thrash metal days, trying to get the right ‘metal’ sound was hard work. The elusive ‘chunk’ that...
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Screaming Bird Treble Boost
OK. I’ve decided guitars are too big and too expensive to collect willy-nilly. Any more and I’ll be hanging them in my bathroom. This is the next focus of my OCD… So, a while ago I was annoying...
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‘Nyr’ Russian made distortion pedal
A homemade Russian pedal which just happens to sound fantastic About a year ago, my band was playing a few gigs in Melbourne. I was at my mates place enjoying a delicious chicken burger when I got a...
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The new Tym Pedals – graphics & sounds
I’ve been having heaps of fun this year designing the graphics for Tym Guitars new pedal range. For a guitarnerd like me, it’s a dream to design stuff like this and actually see it made… sitting there…...
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Superfuzzbigmudd is alive and kickin’
It’s here! (and it’s frikken’ awesome…) I’ve designed the graphics for a few Tym Guitars pedals now but this one is easily my favourite. Tim’s brief was basically “I want to build a Superfuzzbigmuff…...
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guitarnerd pedal icons
A few people have asked where I got the pedal icons in the guitarnerd header… I made ’em of course! I did them for a bit of fun and then converted them into desktop icons. So now your computer...
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The mighty, mighty ProCo Rat
My favourite pedal ever… an article by John Mercer & Tony ‘Guitarnerd’ Jackyl Originally built in 1979 and only as a custom order, The Rat started out as an idea by Pro Co engineers tired of...
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J Mascis ‘Fuzz Munchkin’ by Tym Guitars
The looooooong evolution of the art design for the awesome new Tym Guitars Fuzz Munchkin. If you are a fan at all of Dinosaur Jr, you’d know that Tym Guitars has recently released an exact replica of...
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Jerms Brssy (Brassmaster clone)
My first guitarnerd pedal review… the Jerms Brssy. My obsession with guitars is pretty much all consuming. I think about them every day, and this obsession has rewarded me with playing music in an...
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