by JD Sleep | Feb 2, 2016 | Monthly Special, Sales |
This month the ProCo™ Rat Replica Complete kit. and the MXR™ Phase 45 Replica Complete kit. A couple of true classic vintage stompbox replicas. 10% off on these great kits during the month of...
by JD Sleep | Jan 1, 2016 | Monthly Special, Sales |
This month the Klon Centaur Overdrive Replica Complete kit. and the Jordan™ Bosstone Replica Complete kit. A couple of true classic vintage stompbox replicas. The renowned sound of the Klon Overdrive and the Great Fuzz of the Bosstone! 10% off on these great...
by JD Sleep | Dec 1, 2015 | Monthly Special, Sales |
This month the Tone Bender Mark II Replica Complete kit and the Dan Armstrong™ Orange Squeezer Replica Complete kit. A couple of true classic vintage stompbox replicas. The renowned sound of the Orange Squeezer Compression and the beautiful full fuzz sound of...
by JD Sleep | Oct 28, 2015 | Monthly Special, Sales |
This month the PT-80 Complete kit and the Brown-Sound-In-A-Box Complete kit. The PT80 is a fantastic echo/delay effect and the sale price is even better! The BSIAB2 has the awesome “Cranked Marshall” sound. A much refreshing change from all the...
by JD Sleep | Oct 20, 2015 | Blog |
Many regular browser of our site might not realize all of the many the Tone Bender variations we have on the site. We have a plethora of Tone Bender variations, some of which are shown in the photo above. They vary greatly in sound and tone, but they all have...
by JD Sleep | Oct 7, 2015 | Monthly Special, Sales |
With all the Fall Holiday celebrations going on last week we forgot all about updating the Monthly sale for October. On sale for the month of October, great sounding Ibanez compressor replica complete kits and four of our great tone booster complete kits. As a special...
by JD Sleep | Sep 25, 2015 | Blog |
General Guitar Gadgets started as a small website in the year 2000. We went under the name “Guitar Effects Projects” when we started. After some careful thought we felt that the name was a bit generic so we changed it a few years later to General Guitar...
by JD Sleep | Sep 8, 2015 | Blog |
In an effort to let you know more about our business practices, this blog is about our business philosophy. We strive to provide the high level of quality products and service that we ourselves would wish to receive when we buy online from other companies. We want to...
by JD Sleep | Aug 17, 2015 | Sales |
Everything in the store is 15% off until September 8, 2015. Get some great deals on some great tone! Use coupon code: sept2015
by JD Sleep | Aug 14, 2015 | Website Updates |
We have a couple of new compressor kits. They are based on the Ibanez BP10 Bass Compressor and CP10 Compressor. These are really great compressors that were somewhat over-shadowed by the bad reputation and unpopularity that the short lived “10 Series”...
by JD Sleep | Jul 30, 2015 | Monthly Special, Sales |
This month the Ampeg™ Scrambler™ Replica Complete kit and the MXR™ Phase 90™ Replica Complete kit. 10% off on these Great...
by JD Sleep | Jun 21, 2015 | Blog, Build Tips, Tools |
In this installment of tool discussion, we will talk about desoldering. In my opinion, it’s one of the most difficult aspects of building guitar effects. If you are perfect, you may never need to desolder any parts and that’s great, but…...
by JD Sleep | Jun 12, 2015 | Blog |
We are starting a series of blogs that will give some insight and opinions on the tools we use to create DIY guitar effects here at General Guitar Gadgets. This will take several installments, but it will be informative and interesting. Hopefully other builders will...
by JD Sleep | May 31, 2015 | Monthly Special, Sales |
This month the Dallas Arbiter™ Fuzz Face™ Replica Kits and the Way Huge™ Red Llama™ Replica Kits are on sale for 10% off. A couple of classic stompboxes that are great to have at your...
by JD Sleep | May 27, 2015 | Blog |
When I think of the “stars” of DIY guitar effects I usually think of Craig Anderton, Robert Penfold, Nicolas Boscorelli or John Simonton. Or, I think about my internet heroes, such as R.G. Keen, Jack Orman and Aron Nelson. The other day I was thinking...
by JD Sleep | May 22, 2015 | Blog, Building Guitar Effects, Website Updates |
For the first time in General Guitar Gadgets’ history we are discontinuing one of our kits. When attempting to resupply our stocks of VTL5C2/2 optical modules, we found them to be nearly double the price of our previous purchase. With our cost of the optical...
by JD Sleep | May 13, 2015 | Blog |
I attended a talent show last night. After the show I was talking to one of the guitar players in the band that had played earlier. He had only been playing guitar for less than six months. He said a couple things that made me think. 1)”There’s always...
by JD Sleep | May 6, 2015 | Blog, Website Updates |
You may have noticed that there is a new “Tab”* on the website labeled “Schematics“. Long ago we thought it would be a good idea to have a central place where all the schematics were listed on one page. So the page has been buried in the...
by JD Sleep | May 1, 2015 | Blog |
We are hoping to have a kit for this excellent pedal soon!
by JD Sleep | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog |
Every month we put two kits on sale at a special price 10% off. What most people don’t know is that the monthly specials overlap for a few days. So there are actually 4 kits on sale for the first couple of days each month: last month’s and this...
