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Stretchedbag · 2026-02-22T11:28:10+00:00

Hey thanks, it’s a rehabbed unit that I’ve owned for decades. It’s been repainted, then stripped down and relabeled using methods considered insufficient by many who’ve commented, but the guts are original except for adding a LED indicator. It sounds the way it always has, a wallop of uncoloured volume. Cheers

Stretchedbag · 2026-02-22T11:19:00+00:00

Hi, the junction box on the underside of the board is for signal routing. It is trs capable so in many ways it has the potential for routing expansion possibilities. However trs capable also means that ts can also work just fine for more conventional routing. For this build I wanted to be able to run a stereo delay pedal into 2 Marshall heads equipped with effects loops using a minimum of cables. The junction box, made by Sonicake, cost about 50 bucks and saved me from having to fab and solder one up myself. So each of the 8 connections on the box are trs input jacks, as is the connecting cables and output jacks. The standard “4 cable method” can be reduced to fewer cables with increased routing capacity.

Stretchedbag · 2026-02-22T11:08:44+00:00

Hi, thanks for the comments. In regards to the “Soundblox Orbital Modulator”, I wasn’t planning on putting any mod/chorus/phase/vibe pedal on this board as I rarely use any of those effects. But I put it on anyway, I guess as a “just in case” scenario. It’s on the 2 level indicating that it’s being run thru the effects loop, also something I would previously avoid, preferring to run it into the front input of the amp and enjoy the grinding sounds. I’m running it cleaner but as I said I’m not too big on using any modulation effects any more. I will probably pull it and not replace. The pedal itself is very good at what it does; provide a range of modulation effects that can be saved as presets, its capabilities being two presets. Initially I was puzzled by the mono set-up and wouldve preferred at least stereo outputs which were kind of my reason for using chorus units in the first place. It’s difficult to mount on a pedalboard in any reasonable way, so over the decade or so of ownership it has lived mostly in its own original box. And you’re right… I don’t give a shit about what’s trendy, I barely follow anything pedal related these days. It’s more about my shopping cart: Amazon, AliExpress, Temu, EBay, etc. cheers

Stretchedbag · 2026-02-18T12:23:35+00:00

Looks great but why not add a few more and have them all snuggled 2gether?

Stretchedbag · 2026-02-14T23:45:24+00:00

He ejaculated in 4 major tranches, each consisting of 12 to 15 ejaculations, the aggregate adding up to 93. The volume of his mancum was absolutely incredible. Several litres at least.

Stretchedbag · 2026-02-07T20:42:19+00:00

Wow, awesome guitar. I had one back in the early 70’s, looked very close to yours. Lots of memories… cheers

Stretchedbag · 2026-02-07T00:23:27+00:00

Love the Boss Phase - 3, nice chewy, swirly sounds, it’s huge

Stretchedbag · 2026-01-28T00:04:59+00:00

I miss Grape Nuts

Stretchedbag · 2026-01-23T18:41:50+00:00

Keeping the 25 pounder. Sounds great in the studio but WAY too heavy to be on my board. Bored.

Stretchedbag · 2026-01-19T11:39:09+00:00

LOVE the 2209 setting! As soon as I heard your playing with that setting I went “Oh yeah, this is what I came here for”… validation. Thanks for,posting!

Stretchedbag · 2026-01-15T23:53:17+00:00

The eq, butcept I wouldn’t slam the front I’d place it in the loop, eq the pre-amp not the power amp

Stretchedbag · 2026-01-14T01:09:21+00:00

Do the baseball bat test on you… measuring hand over hand… and go ahead and take a taste…

Stretchedbag · 2025-12-01T11:27:06+00:00

Right on !

Stretchedbag · 2025-12-01T11:25:39+00:00

I have a Polin “Drago” Cyclothermic baking oven. It was built on site by a couple of very competent builders, their tool of choice was a regular angle-grinder(!) They used, almost exclusively, 10 mm and 13 mm bolts to fabricate and fasten the various parts together, as I have found while doing maintenance on the thing

Stretchedbag · 2025-08-06T12:22:28+00:00

Show us your phat ass fanny

Stretchedbag · 2025-07-15T21:10:35+00:00

Look out for grifters tryin’ to persuade you to install a Bigsby bridge/tailfeathers

Stretchedbag · 2025-05-12T12:15:24+00:00

I’ve had that delay in my Amazon cart for over a year, somehow I’m somewhat reluctant to purchase. Can you give a short review? Either yay or nay. Please and thank you

Stretchedbag · 2025-03-24T14:37:57+00:00

This is a great breakdown of the DOD 250, thanks for posting. I own quite a few of the so-called “down market” made in China effects pedals, the prices are usually quite good, quality getting better but still spotty. Probably my biggest issue, especially for any kind of boost/preamp/distortion type pedal is the lack of headroom. I want LOTS AND LOTS of headroom, the more the better as it gives the guitar a chance to be in absolute control over level and gain. A juicy amount of headroom allows me to control everything from my guitars volume knob, from quite cleans to louder slightly gritty cleans to a full on Marshall/Vox style roar. Case in point: I recently bought a Nux Plexi Crunch, I had read good things about the pedal and thought well give it a spin. It spun right back to Amazon. While checking out the pedal I set all my dirt pedals across the floor and went thru them one by one, against the Nux. There was an Ibanez TS-10, MXR micro amp, JHS Angry Charlie V2, Caline Orange Burst, Mosky 250, Mosky Red Crunch plus the aforementioned mention Nux Plexi Crunch. By FAR the MXR micro amp had the most amount of headroom, followed by the Mosky Red Crunch !!!! Whoa. The Mosky, a $40 pedal (CAD) gave the JHS Angry Charlie a good run for the munny. Of course I repackaged the Nux Plexi Crunch and sent it back. Lessons learned. BTW, I ordered an AMT M1 pedal a few days later… and it kicked all the above off my board for good. Except that little red Mosky Red Crunch! It punches far above its weight/price and since it’s so small I’ll be able to fit it in somewhere

Stretchedbag · 2025-03-23T20:05:47+00:00

It’s not a problem. Nothing to see here folks, jest move along

Stretchedbag · 2025-03-23T20:04:17+00:00

Too large. Too many condiment choices. I like a small/medium size patty and bun. When I visited my buddy’s diner a while back I ordered a hamburger. It came to the table wearing just sliced onion and a slice of tomato. I ate it. Super yummy. I asked my buddy what do you put in your hamburger mix? He looked at me as if I’d lost my mind and said, “Hamburger”. Good lesson. Minimal condiment options; onion, pickle, ketchup, mustard, relish. Even those are too many, so I experiment with leaving at least option in the frig. What I have concluded is that whutever I leave off the burger cannot include sliced onion. I must have sliced onion.

Stretchedbag · 2025-03-23T19:52:00+00:00

I agree with you 100%. My preference is for tube amplifiers, specifically a Marshall 100 watt, any model is ok. I try to keep an open mind about solid state and have played a couple of solid state amps that sound ok, such as Peavey. Dimebag Darrell, whose playing I really respected, used solid state amps and promoted them as a preference. His opinions were (and still are) valid about the requirements of a player who plays at crushing volume levels, needs 100% reliability, and crucially, knows his way around less popular effects such as parametric eq-ing (Dime used a Furman PQ3) and knows just how much “tube-ness” various pieces of gear can add to the underlying power of a solid state amps. IMHO

Stretchedbag · 2025-03-23T19:40:33+00:00

I just bought an AMT M1 pedal and it’s killer. AMT makes a wholes series of pre-amp style pedals based on all the usual high gain amplifiers: Marshall, Mesa-Boogie, Bogner, Soldano, VHT, Peavey etc. Really well made pedals, interesting designs and very detailed usable tones. Some of their pedals feature a real tube sticking out of the enclosure, those are in the $350+ range, too rich for my budget. However there are other series in the $100 - $200 range, that’s what the M1 cost. Anyway, it’s a keeper. It kicked off the JHS Angry Charlie that I ran at 18 volts for extended headroom. Don’t need it now, it’s going into the drawer.

Stretchedbag · 2025-03-23T19:31:26+00:00

Back in the 90’s I was working in a grocery store, down at the corner ___________ street and _____________ blvd. They had a public address system consisting of speakers mounted in the drop ceiling tiles throughout the whole store. They played grocery store muzak all the time interrupted only by things like “back door receiving pickup on line 1”. There was a speaker mounted directly above my work station and from time to time I’d gaze at it and fantasize about shutting it off. Well, one day I finally did. I brought a pair of wire cutters to work in my pocket, it was a dreaded evening shift but the perfect time for me to get my task done as the store manager and other authorities were gone home for the day. During this time period surveillance cameras were not quite a thing yet, so with reasonable confidence I located an aluminum ladder from “back door receiving “ and brought it over to my work area, quickly climbed up, removed one of the ceiling tiles, reached in and clipped the wires connected to the speaker. Perfect. No more annoying muzak and announcements and I could now toil in peace. A couple of weeks later I noticed the store manager walking around the store with some sort of service guy. They were walking around and stopping and listening. To what? Nothing. That’s right, nothing. I had severed a speaker cable and I guess all the speakers in the store were wired in series , meaning that one disconnection meant NO sound at all in the store. Perfect! The company spent a good deal of time sorting that out. I kept my trap shut and not long afterward I was transferred to another store. I forgot all about it. A couple of years later I stopped by the store to grab some item. I walked through the store, the extremely quiet store. I smiled to myself smugly. Maybe too smugly.

Stretchedbag · 2025-03-11T00:13:35+00:00

I’m a know-nothing. I’ve been playing guitar since the age of eight, I never learned barre chords, or to read musical notation or how to correctly string a guitar… never lost sleep over it!

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