General Guitar Gadgets
General Guitar Gadgets ("GGG") is sort of an odd fish in the pedal effects/PCB ecosphere. Like BuildYourOwnClone.com, GGG primarily sells pre-packaged kits of their own making. GGG also sells a few different PCBs for which they have not made full kits. We have purchased both the kits and the PCBs as we have found suits our purposes.
You wouldn't necessarily think that the owner of the company is highly religious given the catering to rock musicians, pedal nerds, and similar propeller-heads. However, if you attempt to purchase anything on a Saturday, you're out of luck. As a business, General Guitar Gadgets conforms to the Seventh-Day Adventist beliefs of its owner, and is closed on Saturdays.
Once you learn to work around this unconventional business practice, everything else is pretty unremarkable. The kits and PCBs are high-quality. The owner is responsive, respectful, and non-judgemental.
Pedals Available
Here's a list of pedals from GGG that we have available:
- BMP Civil War (kit): Big Muff with the "Civil War" version tones
- BMP Green Russian (kit): Big Muff with the "Green Russian" version tones
- BMP OpAmp (kit): Big Muff with distorting operating amplifiers instead of transistors
- BMP Rams Head (kit): Big Muff with the "Rams Head" version tones
- BrassMaster (kit): Clone of a Maestro BrassMaster effect
- Bronx Cheer (pcb): PCB-only of the Bronx Cheer effect by Tim Escobedo
- BSIAB2 (kit): Brown-Sound-In-A-Box-2, excellent high-gain distortion pedal developed by DIY'ers.
- Headphone Amp (pcb): Just like it sounds.
- ITS8 (kit): Ibanez Tube Screamer 808 clone
- Mini Mixer (kit): 4-channel mixer in a pedal-sized enclosure
- Orange Squeezer (kit): Clone of the Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer
- Rodent (pcb): We bought this to rebuild an existing Rat2 into better "Rat".
- TOCT (kit): Tyco Brahe Octavia. We're using the kit to build new "Secret Weapon Wah Wah".
- GGG Custom Wah (pcb): 5 tone settings, 2 switchable inductors
