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Musical instrument circuit design and engineering:
- effects boxes (drives and distortions)
- preamps (internal/external)
- direct injection boxes

29/09/2023

Be one of the first people in the whole entire world to try out the ENDLESS!

I’ll have the prototype with me at gear and beer in Geelong this weekend… 1-4 on Sunday

17/09/2023

Endless drilling! The clowns insisted I use the sleeves cut from Lemmy’s denim vest to protect the paint and sump oil from Anthrax ‘05 tour bus to lubricate the drill… powerful fumes in here today xoxo

16/07/2023

So absolutely grateful to be doing a collab with Melbourne legends .

The pedal is centred around a low-medium gain ‘British-amp-in-a-box’ style distortion circuit. Cam and Jarrod set the gain and eq to suit their fast aggressive playing style. Don’t expect a ton of distortion, it's all about keeping things crunchy and articulate without any flubby mess. All you really have is a volume control for the output of the distortion circuit (of course I aptly labeled it ‘fuzz’, because bad habits and all).

The other part of the pedal is a rude and perfectly glitchy 8-bit ‘polyphonic’ Harmonizer. You can blend a cranky 8-bit version of the distorted signal in. And you can transpose that 8-bit signal to a major third or fifth. Plus, thanks to the microcontroller's natural latency, you get this filthy slap back type delay on the harmonic signal when it’s blended in. It's massive and downright nutty.

And then there is the secret “endless” mode… but that’s a story for another day.

Sounds coming soon.

These are really limited and I’m pretty sure only available through preorder with the clowns new album.

I absolutely love working with bands! I love trying to make guitarist’s nutty ideas become reality and invariably creating happy accidents the go hard!

Layout as always

10/06/2023

SLOMO FUZZ JR!!!!

Another collab with those legendary psych rockin’ champs from Philly !

The slomo fuzz jr. is a compact salute to its big brother the slomo fuzz. For the slomo jr I’ve kept the same custom trans-Atlantic fuzz mash circuit as the original slomo, just pulled out the harmonic modulator for a more compact no fuss fuzz.

More info on getting your hands on this run of the slomo fuzz and the slomo fuzz jr at

Heck yeah for the art
Heck yeah for the layout

05/03/2023

First build back after a bit of an extended break! I finally built myself a ! I’ve been talking for a while about updating the ‘76 to include the shift circuit from the 1975 Fuzz. So I did it! Chucked it in an old slomo fuzz case I had, omitted the expression pedal socket and added a centre detent shift k**b (couldn’t go drilling holes in Bri’s amazing artwork). It’s a thing of beauty.

Things will probably be a little slower this year than last - but hopefully another batch of 1993’s soon and I get the synnth a couple of steps closer to being ready for you all! Stay tuned
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14/12/2022

Another amazing demo video from … I did have Angus and Malcolm in mind when I added the hard/soft switch, but perhaps it should have been Alex and Gabor!

Check out Gabor’s aluminium neck beastie!!!

Next batch of 1993’s will be available early next year.

27/10/2022

I *had* a batch of these and before I could chuck them on here to let you know you could buy them, all but one have been scooped up!

So I have one left from this batch up for grabs! DM for a discount code and free shipping (Australia only).

Thanks for the awesome feedback on this one gang! I hope to get onto another batch asap.

Demo coming soonish (I hope)

24/09/2022

Big thank you to everyone who came down and said hello at the pedal expo! It was amazing and absolutely inspiring to to meet so many of the great local builders and see the variety of pedals made in this little city!

And thanks to everyone who gave the Synnth a rattle! I’m going to get straight into finalising the production pcb and artwork. I’ll keep you all updated. Somewhere in all that I’ll try to squeeze in a small batch of 1993’s too!

Thanks again for supporting the local pedal building community!

And thanks to for hosting us (sorry we went a little over time)

22/09/2022

Loading up for Beer+Gear at tomorrow afternoon!!!

I’m bringing my trusty old p90 loaded ‘76 Guyatone for anyone who can’t be arsed lugging their Les Paul, slinging their Strat or wrangling their Rickenbacker.

See you tomorrow!

20/09/2022

Here’s the rig for Friday’s pedal expo!

Come check out the new 1993 overdrive and some cool fuzz.

Also on the board is the working prototype for my ‘Synnth’. It’s a CMOS PLL based four voice monophonic harmonizer. I’ve been at this one for over two years now and I’m keen for you all to have a play and let me know what you think!

I’m using my moded killer ant class-A valve beastie through a cabzeus so you can plug your ear goggles in and give it all a blast!

See you Friday!

23 Sep 1-4pm

13/09/2022

The good old ‘76… my little desert island doom machine!

09/09/2022

The 1993 Overdrive….

Welcome to the world little one! The 1993 is a no compromise, super versatile low gain overdrive.

Equally happy on its own, as an “always on” end of the chain kinda thing or giving other drives a nice kick up the arse!

It’s got selectable asymmetrical soft/hard clip operation… the soft clip circuit has increased headroom for responsive dynamics, while the hard clip circuit ventures into British crunch territory.

A selectable high pass filter lets you cut through while the flat setting really gives you a detailed full sound.

The power supply is internally boosted to 18V to let the Burr Brown OPA2134 do what it does (if you know, you know).

First batch was gone before I finished them… I’ll get on to the next batch (and demos) soon.

This will be available to try out at the Beer and Gear pedal expo at the Bendigo Hotel later this month.

Massive thanks to my test pilot and good mate George.

Big thanks to for the stunning artwork, and making my Nasi Goreng induced napkin sketches a reality

And the undisputed godfather of the Melbourne pedal scene for the sublime UV print job

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