Lets see... its been a busy couple of days... I spoke to Jason 3 days ago. Again, a surreal experience. I wanted to know if he could recall any of the settings he used on his amp or pedal... sadly, no, he could not recall his knob settings. Oh well... no problem

I did find out that he most likely used 9-46 gauge strings... that's helpful.

Had a chance to swing by a music store and pick up a Jackson dinky to experiment with, as my usual experimenter guitar is breaking due to the extremely heavy strings I usually use... the bolts that go into the guitar and support the bridge are puling out and shredding the wood.

I picked up the Jackson for a few reasons- it was cheap-the sticker price was $350, its got a floyd rose, and it was cheap.

Why is cheap important? We're designing a pedal for the average joe to get WAY FUCKING ABOVE average tone... so I figure I would get a guitar, not unlike the normal dude would be playing.

We will be outfitting said cheap guitar with the 9-46 gauge strings and the pickups favored by Jason- the Super Distortion by DiMarzio. I'll be making a call to DiMarzio next week to see if there are any differences between the p'ups we can buy today and the p'ups on the shelves 25 years ago. 

I've got a bunch more to report, but I think I'll try to keep each post to a bite size amount...

Be well!!

Dennis
And now for the tacky, yet required, part of the blog...
We are anticipating extremely high demand for this pedal. You can pre-order the unit here with a $100 deposit. When yours is in the build queue an invoice for the balance will be sent.