Prototyping, Pick Ups & Photos
Wow... its been a full week since the last update lets jump in!
Prototyping- I did some prototype testing and the results were... well not as great as I had wanted them to be. The overdrive into the distortion model that I wanted to follow just creates too much noise. So I'm going to investigate other options for giving people the tools to get Jasons tone. We'll keep it dual channel, but with a different mindset and functionality. The bottom line is that it has to sound amazing. That's our commitment... otherwise we're all just wasting time.
Pick ups- I heard through the grapevine that Jason was using a DiMarzio Super Distortion. Coupled with the fact that somewhere I read Jason used Dimarzios in the bridge and Duncans in the neck... I ran with that thought. WELL... I found out in a most humbling fashion this is NOT CORRECT. Turns out I actually had that backwards, DiMarzios in the neck Duncans in the bridge.
With that bad info firmly lodged into my head, and I admit its my own fault I had bad info, I made a call to DiMarzio. I wanted to find out if there would be any differences between the Super's on the shelves today, and those sold 20-25 years ago... After getting a long lecture on how Jason was never an endorsee, and other technical BS I wont bore you with here... I walked away knowing only 1 thing: I would never again give the DiMarzio company another fucking dollar. I dont care who is on their roster list you just dont treat people the way I was treated. I'm not going to name WHO it was that I spoke with, but trust me when I say they should know better. I guess he just figured when you're the top dog in your field you can treat people like shit without giving a damn.
If you are EVER in the market for after-market pick ups, PLEASE check out our friends at Motor City Pick Ups. They hand wind everything and they sound amazing!!! All 5 of my electric are loaded with Motor City P'ups and I love em.
Photos- Jason sent over a few rare photos for us to use in the promotional campaign.. cool stuff. We'll use them I'm sure, but we've also got something else planned that will just be ubercool. More on that later.
Thats it for today... next time I might share some new images, so keep an eye out for that.
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.
Prototyping- I did some prototype testing and the results were... well not as great as I had wanted them to be. The overdrive into the distortion model that I wanted to follow just creates too much noise. So I'm going to investigate other options for giving people the tools to get Jasons tone. We'll keep it dual channel, but with a different mindset and functionality. The bottom line is that it has to sound amazing. That's our commitment... otherwise we're all just wasting time.
Pick ups- I heard through the grapevine that Jason was using a DiMarzio Super Distortion. Coupled with the fact that somewhere I read Jason used Dimarzios in the bridge and Duncans in the neck... I ran with that thought. WELL... I found out in a most humbling fashion this is NOT CORRECT. Turns out I actually had that backwards, DiMarzios in the neck Duncans in the bridge.
With that bad info firmly lodged into my head, and I admit its my own fault I had bad info, I made a call to DiMarzio. I wanted to find out if there would be any differences between the Super's on the shelves today, and those sold 20-25 years ago... After getting a long lecture on how Jason was never an endorsee, and other technical BS I wont bore you with here... I walked away knowing only 1 thing: I would never again give the DiMarzio company another fucking dollar. I dont care who is on their roster list you just dont treat people the way I was treated. I'm not going to name WHO it was that I spoke with, but trust me when I say they should know better. I guess he just figured when you're the top dog in your field you can treat people like shit without giving a damn.
If you are EVER in the market for after-market pick ups, PLEASE check out our friends at Motor City Pick Ups. They hand wind everything and they sound amazing!!! All 5 of my electric are loaded with Motor City P'ups and I love em.
Photos- Jason sent over a few rare photos for us to use in the promotional campaign.. cool stuff. We'll use them I'm sure, but we've also got something else planned that will just be ubercool. More on that later.
Thats it for today... next time I might share some new images, so keep an eye out for that.
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.
I have to agree with Dennis on the DiMarzio fact. I had the same run in with them, they treated me poorly after they had sent me two faulty pickups.
"The Humbucker from hell" now I know why it has that name. and the 36th Anniversary PAF. both of which were bad. I can't wait to see the new Jason Becker pedal! so, everyone please buy one. Dennis is making sure that this is going to be a kick ass pedal. and Rusty Cooley is also going to be doing some nice demo stuff as well. so a big thanks to him as well. it's finally nice to see that there are still some good people out there that are willing to make Jason some well deserved stuff!
when all the others have just turned their heads. Dennis was honored to make this a reality!
Rock on Dennis your pedals are awesome!
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