Barnacle Fuzz pedal compared to a Vintage Fuzz Face pedal.

Here is a video showing the versatility of the Barnacle Fuzz and how a Vintage Fuzz Face like sound can be dialed in using the Barnacle Fuzz. We used a Vintage Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face with Mullard OC71 Germanium Transistors for the Video. 

Barnacle Demo

Before the holidays we filmed a video demo for the Barnacle Fuzz. Please check it out and let us know what you think. If you have any questions feel free to drop us an e-mail or comment on this post. Thanks to Gabe Spangler and Jonathon Zeppa for helping us out.

Holiday Hours

We will be taking some time off and closing the shop beginning Saturday, December 24th, and returning Monday, January 2nd, 2012.

Thank you for all your support in 2011! Have a happy and safe Holiday and a rockin' New Year!

UFO crash landing: Ace Frehley's UFO Guitar gets a new light show.

Ace Frehley's UFO Guitar landed at the shop for some light modifications. Here is a short video of the finished mods that we did at the shop. We will be posting a detailed photo blog of the process in the very near future.

Rickenbacker 4001 Fretless

You don't see too many Rickenbacker 4001 Fretless basses around so thought it would be nice to upload some pics of it. This Bass was just in for some minor work, clean electronics and usual maintenance. The customer has owned this instrument for many years but did not play it much due to the 'fret markers' on the side of the fingerboard. Rickenbacker had installed a side dot indicating every position of where a fret would have been. This is all well intentioned, some people probably really enjoy the thought, but it makes the side of the fingerboard very cluttered and hard to judge where you are playing on the fingerboard. (see below)

The quickest solution, one that still entailed the original concept of design, was to drill out select black side dots and replace them with white dots. This would not modify the Bass too much but still allow for a less cluttered look on the side of the fingerboard.

It was a fun job, the customer was happy and we got to jam on a fretless Ricky at the shop.

Supro Thunder Bolt Restore

This great old Supro came into the shop in pretty good shape. The chassis was covered in duct-tape and there was only a loud hum on the output. First thing was to remove the duct-tape and clean up the chassis.

After the chassis clean up, we replaced the coupling caps and power cord. The original RCA tubes were still in great shape and did not need to be replaced.

Gotta love the grill cloth and covering. This amp sounds really sweet cranked full out and the 15" speaker makes for a huge sound.

Bass Fuzz Dot Com

Bassfuzz.com is the authority when it comes web reviews on making your low-end fuzzy. So we contacted them to see if they would review the Barnacle Fuzz. We were very pleased to get the okay to send out a pedal. After a few weeks of patient waiting our pedal's review was finally posted. You can see it here. Make sure you check out some of the other parts of the site. There is a lot of info and it is fairly well organize.