General Guitar Gadgets

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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. Mostly we've bought the kits, and when there's something cool sounding like the Bronx Cheer for which they only have the PCB, well, then we buy the PCB...

You wouldn't necessarily think that the owner of the company is 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 tone stack
  • BMP Green Russian (kit): Big Muff with the "Green Russian" version tone stack
  • BMP OpAmp (kit): Big Muff with distorting operating amplifiers instead of transistors
  • BMP Rams Head (kit): Big Muff with the "Rams Head" version tone stack
  • 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 only more boring. We doubt anyone will want to rent this, but stranger things have happened!
  • 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 enclosure into better "Rat".
  • TOCT (kit): TycoBrahe Octavia. We're torn between using the kit to build a Secret Weapon pedal and reworking our Dunlop Octavio.
  • GGG Custom Wah (pcb): Wah Wah with 5 tone settings, 2 switchable inductors
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