Baby Budda – Twinmaster in a Lunchbox

Posted on January 21, 2012 by tastychops

Budda was at the very start of the low powered amp revolution when it launched the Twinmaster back in 1995. Its great to see them both looking back and moving forward by wrapping up the Twinmaster into the current hot thing, the Lunchbox amp, with the Baby Budda.

Features & Specifications

- Completely hand wired in the U.S.A.
- Point-to-point power section
- Brass-eyelet board preamp section
- Two high-grade EL84 power tubes
- Two high-grade 12AX7 preamp tubes
- 5U4 rectifier tube
- Class AB power section
- Cascading preamp design
- Custom-wound transformers
- 4/8-ohm impedance switch
- Normal and High Gain inputs
- Treble, Bass and Volume controls
- Effects loop
- Slave output
- Metal chassis and housing
- Made in the U.S.A.
- U.S. MSRP $1499.99

I am a huge Budda fan. My Superdrive 18 II is my favourite amp ever. I have always veered towards EL84 amps and I love the Budda take on it. Wide, rich, chimey … perfect!

The Baby Budda looks really promising. I would prefer it in a standard headshell as the Lunchbox aesthetic is a little chintzy. Nonetheless … handwired Budda tone in a portable package, I’ll take one!

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Eric Johnson Signature Fuzz Face Audio Clip

Posted on January 18, 2012 by tastychops

Gear details: 1995 Custom Shop Master Built w/ Arcane single coil pickups, Dunlop Jazz III pick (90′s era), Dunlop 10 gauge pure nickel strings, EJ Fuzz Face (fuzz knob dialed right around teardrop like EJ), Marshall 100-watt Super Tremolo head into matching era cab with 25-watt Celestions, Vintage Unidyne III, Shure SM-57 into Avalon 737sp channel strip, Pro Tools HD3 with Apogee converters.

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First Demo of EJ Fuzz Face

Posted on January 16, 2012 by tastychops

Some killer sounding quick demos of the EJ fuzz courtesy of James Santiago from Voodoo Labs. He’s got the EJ licks down and it sounds HOT.

“Even though I did these while doing homework on my own Giggity pedal, they do also prove that the EJ fuzz sounds pretty awesome…Bear in mind that these were done with a real signed off version of EJ’s pedal. Other than myself, Jeorge Tripps and EJ, any other people that claim to have a different color/version are not hearing the final product.”
- James Santiago, Voodoo Labs

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Eric Johnson on the Signature Fuzz and Speakers

Posted on January 15, 2012 by tastychops

Words from the man himself on the EJ fan forum:

“Let’s see…yes there is a fuzz face coming out and I am very happy with the way it sounds. In my humble opinion, it is the closest I have ever heard to the original FF. I actually think in addition, they are more consistent than the old ones. Hats off to Jeorge Tripps for working hard on this one. There is also a speaker coming out that I am very excited about. George Allessandro and I worked for quite awhile to tackle this challenge but for me, it was a necessity as finding old originals is increasingly difficult. It has the wonderful even harmonic characteristics of the old speakers which I have never been, up to this point, able to duplicate with new speakers…”

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Jim Dunlop Eric Johnson Signature Fuzz Face – Pics from Jeorge!

Posted on January 13, 2012 by tastychops

And thanks to a heads up from GuitarNoize here are fresh pics of the pedal from the EJ Fuzz Face designer himself, Jeorge Tripps, all signed off and ready to go into production. So excited to get my hands on one of these!

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Jim Dunlop Eric Johnson Signature Fuzz Face Prototype Pics

Posted on January 13, 2012 by tastychops

News from Patrick Patterson, a member on the EJ fan forum, with pictures of his newly acquired EJ Signature Fuzz Face prototype. So the rumours were true and production shouldn’t be far off now! Early 2012 perhaps?

“…here are some photos of my prototype Eric Johnson Fuzz Face I picked up in Visalia, CA on 7/15/11. This thing sounds great in front of my Twin but sounds even better through a Marshall (I tried a 1970 big box 50W). I’m not sure if the production one will have them, but mine has BC183′s. This unit was hand wired by Jeorge Tripps. He founded Way Huge and is currently the Director of Product Development for Jim Dunlop. He also worked on the Hendrix and Bonamassa Fuzz Faces. A genuinely nice guy and it was a pleasure to meet him. It, to me, was even more of an honor to get to meet Eric back stage after the show. I cannot wait for the production version to come out so I can A/B them.”

View more pics here >

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Tom Bukovac’s Newer Pedalboard (Jan 2012)

Posted on January 12, 2012 by tastychops

A new pedalboard for Buk designed by Vertex Effects to approximate the previous one. The point being to have one for the road and one close to home for session work in Nashville. According to Mason from Vertex this is another huge board weighing in at close to 100lbs in the case. Quite an arm stretcher!

The signal chain is as follows:

INTERFACE (passive w/ master bypass) > Electro-Harmonix POG 2 > Boss V-Wah > Xotic RC Booster > Way Huge Green Rhino > ZVex Box of Rock (re-housed) > Nobels ODR-1 (re-housed) > Analogman King of Tone > Way Huge Pork Loin > Vertex GE-7 Equalizer > INTERFACE (effects break-out) > Peterson Strobo-Stomp Tuner > Neo Instruments Ventilator > Boss VB-2 Vibrato > Keeley TR-2 Tremolo > Dunlop Volume Pedal (Vertex modified) > Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man (Vertex modified/calibrated) > Strymon Brigadier (stereo) > Vertex EHX Stereo Memory Man w/ Hazarai (stereo) > INTERFACE (stereo outputs with ISO transformer and dual output buffers)

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“What Passes For Love” by David Grissom

Posted on January 12, 2012 by tastychops

David Grissom is a tasty player of monstrous proportions but weirdly enough this is his first entry into the hallowed pages of tastychops. I have never been a PRS fan but his signature PRS is really intriguing (I’ll take the goldtop please!) – really versatile axe. The audio isn’t amazing when the band and vox kicks in but enjoy the guitar tones.

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“I Worship You” by The Little Willies with Jim Campilongo

Posted on January 12, 2012 by tastychops

Love this performance by The Little Willies on Letterman … Jim is such a delightful player.

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Renegade Creation “High and Low” Free Download

Posted on December 23, 2011 by tastychops

A great little holiday treat from mikelandau.com:

Renegade Creation is in the studio working hard on our second release scheduled for March of next year. We’re very proud of this one, we have the mighty Ed Cherney doing all the engineering and mixing this time around, it’s coming out strong… We are offering this song, which we have just finished, as a free download Holiday gift. The song is called “High And Low”.

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