This ad for a paisley engraved Trussart wah appeared in Guitar Aficianado recently. No further word from Dunlop or Trussart at this stage but from the ad we can see that its a limited edition … it will be available this year … and it looks funky as hell! The fact that the only mention of it has been in Guitar Aficianado (between the Rolex and Single Malt ads) suggests that its going to cost a small fortune.
Plucked from My Les Paul forum.
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.”
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)
Another great board here by David Phillips of LA Sound Design. This time for my favourite jazz / fusion Sonic Assassin, Oz Noy. Lots of delays, delays, delays, delays.
He packs them one on top of the other in a case for for travelling. The signal chain is as follows:
Wah > Octavio > AC Boost > TS-808 > Fuzzy Drive > Tuner Mute Box > Phase 90 > Swamp Thang Tremolo > Deja Vibe > Rotosim > Boss DD7 > Boss DD7 > Boss DD 7 > Memory Man > Line 6 M9.
This is Kenny’s new pedalboard by boutique builder, Helweg. I can spot an Ibanez TS808HW, Analogman KOT, Dunlop Univibe, Analogman Bi-chorus, Chicago Iron Tycobrahe Octavia, Boss Tuner, MXR Blue Box, Butler Tube Driver, Dunlop MC-404 CAE Wah and a Jam Pedals Delay LLama … all connected via the Voodoo Labs Pedal Switcher. Nice work!
And for a comprehensive walk through of his immense pedal collection check this video…some fantastic vintage pieces in here!
Stumbled upon a great post from Knopfler musical associate, Guy Fletcher, with some great gear shots. Amps above from left to right are: Carr, Ampeg Reverbrocket, Tone King Metropolitan, Lazy J, Divided by 13, Gretsch 6161, Fender twin ’58, Fender Princeton TV ’55, Tone King Imperial, Gibson EH150, Fender Bassman ’59, Fender Concert, Fender Super Reverb. Should be able to get a few tones out of those I think!
More on Guy’s blog.
The much lauded Fulltone ‘69 fuzz pedal could be back for a limited run. The ‘69 has been heartily endorsed by artists such as The Rolling Stones, Eric Johnson, The Black Crowes and Robin Trower. With original models now going for crazy prices this announcement is an exciting prospect for fuzz lovers:
“Finally! I have negotiated the purchase of a batch of the same Fat-Body Transistors I used in my favorite era Fulltone 69 pedal (1994-1997). They’re raping me on the price, but I don’t care, I LOVE the sound, and clean-up-ability of these. So it looks like I’ll be able to build a small run of (same ole large box) 69 pedals after all. The Ultimate Fuzz face ain’t about Mojo…it’s all about the transistors and matching them correctly, and that’s my thing”
(via Fulltone)
I also popped Fulltone an email about availability and Mike Fuller got straight back to me brimming with excitement. He’ll be getting a test batch of transistors in the next week and then we’ll know for sure whether we got game. Hope we get some all time fuzz!
This is a shot of tastychops HQ. I’m lucky enough to work from home and, as you can see, I always a have a guitar close to hand.
