Recent content by Pete Lacis

After attempting to explain in words how this wood combination sounds over the years, I finally decided to record some examples of my Suhr koa standard featuring a variety of different tones. In this clip you'll hear me play through a CAA OD100 Classic + as well as my Friedman Modded Egnater...

A while back I wrote a post concerning the differences between alder and swamp ash when used in a strat-style guitar and what tones/genres of music those combinations suited best. I originally wrote that post to satisfy my own curiosity, but also to share with others and participate in...

A while back I had the opportunity to attend Bruce Egnater's amp building seminar at his shop in Berkley, Michigan. During this class we learned about the basics of amp building and were taken through the step-by-step process of assembling our own amp - a Mojo Tone JTM45 kit who's circuit was...

So my Egnater seminar head is inbound to Dave for a mod and he recommended the Brown Eye for this amp vs. the HBE, partially because of the added space requirements of the HBE's additional gain stage. If I'm going for tight modded marshall rhythm/chunk a la classic EVH, Nuno Bettencourt and the...

Curious if Bruce or Jeff could shed some light on the tweaks to Ty Tabor's VX and SL modules, as well as give us the scoop on the Gretchen and XV modules.