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Now more than ever, we’re confronted with hard choices when it comes to evaluating and choosing the tools that define our sound as guitarists. Top artists can rely on their contacts in artist relations to keep them abreast of the latest innovations and cool tools, and now, you can too.

The companies found in our professional resource directory are many of the most innovative providers of premium products and services for guitarists in the world. We invite you to get to know them, and confidently rely on the members of our directory in your ongoing Quest for Tone. Without exception, you’ll find our directory members to be knowledgeable, helpful, and ready to discuss your needs, whether you’re considering a new amplifier or guitar, guitar effects, tubes, pickups, speakers, or restoration and repair services.

You’ll sound better and play better with expert advice and guidance available from our professional resource directory members, and you’ll also make some valuable new friends along the way. Enjoy...

Allparts Top players and guitar builders rely on Allparts for the right guitar and bass parts they need, in stock and ready to ship. Allparts offers a complete range of finished and unfinished guitar bodies in a variety of premium tone woods, including alder and swamp ash, with optional highly figured maple tops. Finishes include all of the most popular vintage colors, including see-through blonde. Premium necks are also available with maple, rosewood, and ebony fingerboards in a variety of neck shape profiles, with or without binding. Custom design your next guitar with Allparts, including tailpieces, tuning keys, bridges, nuts and saddles, pickups, pickguards (that really fit), knobs, hardware, and electronics for many popular models. Bass players and lefties can also find the parts they need at Allparts! You can also rely on Allparts for hard to find parts along with vacuum tubes and amplifier hardware.

AllParts, Houston, TX
713-466-6414 www.allparts.com

Analog Man (Mike Piera) is one of the premier guitar effects dealers and manufacturers serving professional players worldwide. Analog Man is unique, since it manufactures, modifies, buys, sells, and repairs vintage and new guitar effects. Specializing in vintage and high-end effects, you won't find cheap Taiwanese "happy meal" style, toy effects there. Analog Man is dedicated to helping you successfully pursue your quest for tone, and every customer is treated as a prospective friend. There are now Analog Friends all over the world with the common interest of vintage guitars and effects. Analog Man can meet all your effects needs, including: Buying and selling vintage, new, and custom built effects, and modifying pedals to sound and function better. A full repair service, including referrals to specialists. Creating the best new effects with vintage values, schematics, and original owner's manual copies. FREE help with effects problems by e-mail or in our Web Forum, plus professional consultation and technical services.
Analog Man specializes in pedal modifications for the Ibanez and Maxon Tube Screamers and several Boss pedals (SD-1, DS-1, BD-2, DD5, etc). They also modify Fuzzfaces to vintage germanium specs. Analog Man hand-built pedals include the Clone chorus, Comprossors, and Sun Face fuzz pedals. There are 3 versions of the Comprossors available, based on the Ross style and/or the Orange Squeezer style of compression.
Other hand-made pedals available from Analog Man include the FOXROX Captain Coconut and TZF flanger, Teese RMC wahs, Z Vex, Black Cat, Tubester, Ultravibe, Pedaltrain and George L cables. Mike maintains excellent relationships with these manufacturers to insure that quality and service standards are high. Please check the web site for more information, and e-mail if possible. If you must call, please mention ToneQuest and they'll make time to help you.
Analog Man, Bethel, CT
www.analogman.com 203-778-6658

Jeff Bakos Amp Works Jeff Bakos Bakos is one of the top amplifier tech’s and independent recording engineers in the Southeast. To quote Jeff, “ I’ve seen just about everything there is in here except a Dumble.” Well, now he's seen that too as we recently completed our review of John Mayer's Dumble Overdrive Special in March 06.

Jeff has worked on thousands of new and vintage amps, he is an authorized warranty repair tech for Fender and Mesa Engineering, among others, and in addition to having restored and maintained practically every vintage amp ever made (except Dumble’s), Jeff has filled his Atlanta recording studio with a remarkable collection of vintage amplifiers, including tweed, brown, and blackface Fenders, Marshalls, Ampegs, and Hiwatts. If you want it done right the first time and sounding good, Jeff is your man in the Southeast.

Bakos Ampworks and Studio, Atlanta, GA 404-607-8426

Callaham Vintage Guitars and Amps Callaham Vintage Guitars & Amps Bill Callaham is a builder of exceptional electric guitars that exceed the original quality, tone, and beauty of the vintage models that inspire his work. “Better than vintage” is an apt description for the Callaham “S” and “T” model electric guitars that feature premium lightweight ash and alder bodies, custom hand-shaped rock maple necks, and cryogenically treated Lindy Fralin pickups specially wound to Callaham’s specifications for true vintage tone. Bill also offers cryogenically treated, pre-wired vintage pick guards for Strat style guitars, and his exclusive formula for cold-rolled steel alloy tremolo blocks continue to delight players around the world with improved resonance and sustain. Callaham vintage saddles also improve sustain while minimizing string fatigue and breaks. Additional Strat parts include stainless steel trem arms, string ferrules, bridge plates and mounting screws, and string retainers. Attention Tele Players! Callaham now offers a complete line of custom Tele parts. Please visit their web site for information on pre-wired control plates with premium pots, capacitors, and cloth-covered wire, specially wound and cryogenically treated Fralin vintage Tele pickups, compensated brass bridge saddles, bridge plates, knobs, jacks, tuners and string trees! The only thing better than Callaham parts is a Callaham guitar. We said that, and you can take it to the bank.
Callaham Guitars, Winchester, VA 540-678-4043 callaham@callahamguitars.com, www.callahamguitars.com

Check out the ALL NEW Carr Mini-Mercury! The Mini-Merc is an extremely versatile combo with all tube Reverb, 3 position Boost switch, Treble cut switch, and a built in attenuator yielding 8, 2, ½, or 1/10 watt output. 100% hand wired and every amp is rigorously tested before leaving our shop. The Mini-Mercury offers tones and big amp ‘feel’ ranging from lush 60s American reverb to modified ‘brown’ ‘70s British crunch at almost any volume. The cabinet measures a friendly 19.5” wide by 15” tall by 10” deep at the bottom sloping to 9” deep on the top. Our new Mini-Mercury has the same electronics as the standard 1-12” Mercury differing only in its smaller cabinet and its warm and smoky 10 inch Eminence "Lil Buddy" hemp cone speaker.

Plug into any Carr amp and you’ll immediately understand why we said in our first very first ToneQuest review, “Finally, somebody got it right.” Right, as in the perfect marriage of classic Fender balance, clarity, and head room, with innovative overdrive features that produce natural, sweet tube distortion, but never at the expense of the tone you’ve worked so hard to capture in your instruments. Lots of small–batch amp builders use premium components and labor–intensive, point–to–point construction, and Carr is no exception. The Solen filter caps used in Carr amps alone cost more than the sum of the parts in many boutique circuits!

Carr amps are professional tools and works of art that will inspire you for a lifetime. Check out the many stellar reviews and dealer locations for Carr amps at their web site, and contact the boys at Carr for more information about which Carr model is best for you.

Bill Collings’ story provides a classic example of what can be achieved with an engineer’s brain, a machinists’ hand and an experienced repairman’s eye for structural integrity and design. After dropping out of medical school in Ohio to work in a machine shop, Collings moved to Texas in the mid 1970’s where the experience he gained repairing guitars guided his design of the first Collings guitars. His understanding of the flaws and shortcomings found in production guitars was instructive, and he set out to eliminate those shortcomings with the very first order he received for two dozen Collings guitars.

Today, Collings has 50 full-time employees working in a new, 22,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility, and Bill Collings remains hands-on, having built all the tooling used throughout the shop and personally working on guitars at his bench whenever time permits. As the business has grown and processes refined, there is one thing that has not changed...Bill Collings’ commitment to building the finest handmade acoustic steel string instruments in the world.

Collings instruments have grown to include 32 different acoustic guitar models including the famed dreadnought and OM models, seven award-winning mandolin models in both lacquer and varnish finishes, three archtop guitars, and a new line of seven electric instruments crafted to inspire rock, blues, jazz, country, and your music, too.

Bill Collings work is respected by professional and amateur musicians alike…anyone on the quest for quality. Some of these include artists: Keith Richards, Lyle Lovett, Pete Townshend, Emmylou Harris, Andy Summers, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, Joni Mitchell, Don Felder, John Sebastian, Lou Reed, John Fogerty, Tim O'Brien, Pete Huttlinger, Kenny Smith, Brian May, Joan Baez, John Prine, Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap, and Steven Spielberg to name a few. We invite you to play a Collings today.

For more information on the complete line of Collings instruments and dealer locations, please visit our web site.

Celestion Ltd. Nobody knows more than Celestion about guitar loudspeaker design and manufacture. Think of your all-time favourite guitar riffs and solos, chances are, they were played through Celestion guitar loudspeakers. For the last fifty years - since the birth of the Celestion Blue (the first ever purpose-built guitar loudspeaker) - our magical mix of metal paper and magnets has formed an essential part of the sound of guitar music. Some of the greatest speakers available today are part of the Celestion Classic Series. Over the years, we’ve applied our design expertise to build a range of speakers that will give you classic Celestion tone, no matter what style you play. The Alnico Series and the Heritage Series, both hand-built in Ipswich, England, are the result of meticulous attention to detail, created for those who are absolutely dedicated to the pursuit of true Vintage tone.For high-volume OEMs, Celestion Originals represent outstanding value for money. We have the specialist experience coupled with the most advanced, high-volume manufacturing techniques to deliver Celestion tone, quality and brand appeal at extremely competitive prices.

Celestion International Ltd www.celestion.com For OEM Enquiries, contact Andy Farrow at Celestion America, 732-683-2356. For retail and distribution enquiries, contact Group One Ltd 516-249-1399 www.g1limited.com

ClassicTone By Magnetic Components, Inc.
Vintage Constructed Amplifier Transformers

ClassicTone is a new line of vintage constructed amplifier transformers by Magnetic Components, Inc. ClassicTone is the culmination of our decades of experience producing hundreds of thousands of our fine custom amplifier transformers for the amplifier industry. We have been in business since 1943 in the Chicago area and have a vast knowledge of quality transformer manufacturing for the military and amplifier industry. For many years now we have been producing our transformers for many well-known amplifier OEM's and resellers. Our new line of ClassicTone transformers feature:

Dave's Guitar Shop Dave’s Guitar Shop offers guitars by Fender, Gibson, PRS, National, Taylor, Gretsch, Ernie Ball, Rickenbacker, Martin, Santa Cruz, Suhr, Collings, Tom Anderson Lowden, and many other fine new and used instruments, plus new and used amplifiers such as Fender, Marshall, Line 6, Matchless, Victoria, Bad Cat, and Dr. Z, plus hundreds of guitar effects, and aftermarket pickups from Joe Barden, Seymour Duncan, and more. Due to their inventory of over 1,000 guitars, amps, and accessories, Dave’s is an excellent resource for top of the line Custom Shop and Historic reissues, to intermediate new and used gear. Unlike some dealers’ out of date stock lists on the web and in print, Dave’s inventory is updated daily. The selection of new and used instruments is truly exceptional, and you can often select among several models of the same new guitars to find that special instrument that was meant for you. Dave’s staff is friendly and extremely knowledgeable about the instruments and gear that they sell, because they are players, too. Please check the web site for current inventory, and you are welcome to call for more information or an accurate, in-hand description.

Dave’s Guitar Shop, LaCrosse, WI 608-785-7704
www.davesguitar.com

Since 2001, Eastwood has been creating some of the most exciting Electric Guitars the world has ever seen. Our RADICAL VINTAGE REMAKE series feature a variety of models based on popular sixties designs - from the classic Mosrites to our top-selling AIRLINE - they capture the excitement and style of the originals. Each year the prices of the originals skyrocket - getting harder to find and harder to play! Eastwood's focus is to make top quality replicas - that cost less and play better - so the average musician can experience the excitement of playing one of these beautiful vintage guitars as their every day player.

TONE & STYLE - All Eastwood Guitars are fitted with high-quality modern components that offer an optimal playing experience that far exceeds their 1960's original counterparts. It is hard to find a guitar these days that oozes more vintage style than an Eastwood! All Eastwood Guitars are setup professionally before shipping to our customers.

VALUE - All Eastwood Models are subjected to extensive research and development to continually raise the level of performance. At the same time, we are very careful to maintain an affordability level that our customers expect. These elements combine to deliver peak performance and higher quality than the originals at a much lower price.

SERVICE - A product is only as good as the people who stand behind it. Eastwood Guitars service is second to none in the industry because we simply treat customers the same way we would expect to be treated. All guitars come with a 3 Year limited Warranty. Guitars purchased directly from us receive a no-questions-asked return policy. Or, if you are located near an Eastwood Dealer, you can buy from them at the same direct price we offer online.

THE FUTURE - We continue to bring new models to the Eastwood line-up. Our goal is to introduce 3-5 new models each year, available in a wide variety of colors and of course, including left-hand versions. Please feel free to email us directly if you have some suggestions for models that we should consider developing in the future!

Eastwood Guitars – Toronto, Canada 416-294-6165
www.eastwoodguitars.com

Eminence “If you’ve listened to live music, you’ve almost certainly listened to Eminence.” Eminence has been building speakers to custom specifications for nearly every major manufacturer of guitar amplifier and sound reinforcement products since 1967. Their new Legend Series of guitar speakers captures the essence of the vintage American and British speaker designs that are held in such high regard today by so many discerning players. The Legend Series includes classic British and American designs for 6," 8," 10," 12" and 15" speakers utilizing ceramic and AlNiCo magnets, British or American cones, and Kapton polyamide voice coils for superior heat dissipation and durability. Best of all, because Eminence has been successfully competing for years with other speaker manufacturers as an OEM supplier, the Legend Series speakers are priced far below those of many other popular manufacturers of “reissue” and custom speakers. The Eminence Legend Series delivers all of the tone and durability you need, at a lower price, with no compromises in quality. To locate genuine Eminence dealers in your area, please visit their web site or call Eminence Speakers

Eminence Speaker LLC, Eminence, KY, 502-845-5622 www.eminence.com Contact: Chris Rose

Evidence Audio was founded in 1997 by Tony Farinella to supply the MI and Studio community with performance-based cables at reasonable prices. The most well-known cable is the Lyric HG (High Gain) guitar cable. Readers of Guitar Player Magazine voted the Lyric HG as “Best Accessory of 2004” supporting the opinion drawn by editors of magazines from around the world.

In simple terms, cables from Evidence Audio are built different; as a result, they sound different. The Lyric HG features two solid core high grade IGL copper conductors and a braided shield that is grounded at the amp end only. This is the correct way to “drain” spurious noise. By using solid core conductors strand interference is eliminated as well. Designed to be neutral and honest, the cables don’t actually “improve” your tone, they simply replace a cable in your signal path which was likely destroying it. What you hear is a tighter more muscular bottom end, a clearer more complex mid-range and a sweeter more detailed high end. Dynamics and harmonics are improved and sustain is no longer masked. Overall the guitar becomes more three-dimensional sounding, cuts through clearer and at the same time takes up less space in the mix.

The Siren Speaker Cable and The Source AC Power Cable compliment the Lyric HG. They offer a solution to distortions cause by cables in other areas of the signal path and power supply. The effects of the speaker and power cable are consistent with that of the Lyric HG: you hear the guitar and amplifier, not the cables.

While not inexpensive, cables from Evidence Audio are still one of the most cost effective ways of improving your tone. It’s like changing pickups or a bridge – a small detail with big results. Please visit the Evidence Audio website to locate a dealer near you and demand a demo!

Audionova Inc., http://www.audionova.ca/
514-631-5787 ext. 22

Fishman Transducers Widely recognized as the premier designer and manufacturer of acoustic amplification products, the Fishman name has been synonymous with technical innovation in acoustic amplification for almost 30 years.

Fishman pickups and preamps, toneshaping products, amplifiers, and performance systems are the essential tools acoustic musicians, engineers and sound technicians rely on to accurately amplify the natural tones of acoustic instruments.

Fishman began creating a name for itself in the early 1980s, following the success of Founder Larry Fishman’s pioneering pickup for acoustic bass and the Thinline pickup for C.F. Martin & Co. Larry Fishman’s innovative and unique approach to engineering and building amplification products has led to the granting of over thirty patents.

From its ambitious entrepreneurial beginnings, Fishman grew to become the industry standard name in acoustic amplification. Today Fishman products are sold both to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and to the music-playing public through a worldwide network of musical instrument dealers and international distributors.

GHS – The String Specialists Who plays GHS strings? Artists as diverse as Eric Johnson, Martin Barre, Charlie Sexton, Will Ray, Warren Haynes, Tom Morello, Ritchie Sambora, Steve Howe, Brent Mason, Junior Brown, Zakk Wylde, Tommy Castro, Rene' Martinez and TQR advisory board member and AC30/Telecaster stud Mr. James Pennebaker, to name just a few!

GHS has been manufacturing guitar strings since 1964, and whatever your musical tastes, GHS has the right string for you. You’re invited to try a set of GHS classic Boomers, brilliant Nickel Rockers, Burnished Nickel strings for a warm, vintage tone, Compound Nickel strings for electric archtops, and the recently introduced Infinity Bronze coated acoustic strings for extended tone and brilliance. All GHS strings are available in a wide range of gauges to appeal to every player. Refer to the GHS "Brightness Bar" found on select packages of strings and at our web site. It's your guide to determining which strings will produce the specific range of tone you're seeking.

Please check out the all new GHS web site at www.ghsstrings.com for expert information about GHS strings, including technical documentation on the entire GHS line of strings for fretted instruments, tech tips, string tension calculations, the "Brightness Bar," and a comprehensive list of the top artists who play GHS strings. All GHS strings are manufactured to continually exceed your expectations.

Over the years, Gibson has received countless requests from players needing work on their guitars, mandolins, etc. These players all say the same thing: “I don't trust anyone but Gibson to work on my instrument!” Until recently, these folks had to rely on whoever was available in their local area and hope they had the skills and experience to do the required work.

All that has changed now. Gibson has opened the doors of its in-house repair facility and is accepting stringed instruments of all types and all brands for repair or restoration. Offering a state of the art, temperature and humidity controlled environment, as well as a full staff of highly skilled and experienced luthiers, Gibson is fully equipped to perform any and all operations required in all phases of repair and restoration.

Among the services offered are:
Pro Set Up – Acoustic or Electric
Fretwork – Fret Dress to Plane & Refret
Custom Wiring/Pickup Installation
Structural Repairs – Body Cracks, Bracing, Broken Headstocks
Neck Resets
Custom Paint/Finish Repair/Relics
Total Restorations
So whether it’s an acoustic or electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele or oud, if it has strings and it needs attention, we can help. It doesn’t even have to be a Gibson – we’re an equal opportunity Repair Shop! Call, write or email. We’ll guide you through the process and we’ll help with shipping and insurance information so your instrument gets here and back quickly and safely. We’ll tell you upfront what your costs will be and no work is begun before what is to be done has been explained and approved by you.

Securely pressed into the fingerboard, the fret wire is the gateway between the musician and the instrument. It is one of the most critical components in the playing quality of the guitar. The interaction between the strings and frets determines the feel of the neck as much as the neck contour, fingerboard material, or finish.

There are many different fret wire profiles available, from small to large, low to high, narrow to wide, oval to round to triangular, all affecting the playing characteristics and feel of the instrument. Brass frets from days past have given way to today’s standard material, 18% nickel silver, also called “German Silver.”Our highly refined nickel silver consists of 62% copper, 18% nickel and 20% zinc. But even with 18% nickel silver, there are differences in hardness, tensile strength, surface quality, grain size, and other metallurgical properties that influence a fret’s quality, performance and feel.

Beyond 18% nickel silver, new alloys have been employed in the production of modern fret wire that dramatically improves the performance and aesthetics of the guitar. Our stainless steel, with its greater hardness and tighter grain structure has much higher wear resistance for greater fret life. In addition, string bending is much smoother without the friction or grinding felt with traditional fret material. We have selected a stainless steel alloy that provides the best combination of fret life and installation ease.

Most fretwire is manufactured in coils for ease of installation. Our FW39040 and FW37053 are only offered in 24" straight lengths to prevent twisting if coiled. Pricing is based on orders of one pound minimum quantity per size, plus shipping via UPS, FedEx, or USPS. Gold colored EVO wire is available on selected sizes only. Individual frets cut to size, straight cut or cut and notched tangs, are available upon request. Minimum order quantity for pre-cut frets is 2000 pieces.

CAUTION: Jescar Fretwire will improve the tone and playability of your guitar.

K&M Analog Designs, LLC, was formed in northern California in1998 by Bill Krinard and Joe Mloganoski. The company brings a combined 70 + years of experience in tube amplification and guitar tone to the boutique amp market. As talented designer/engineer and seasoned guitarist (respectively), Bill and Joe have developed a uniquely toneful, dynamic and affordable line of hand built vacuum tube amplifiers that are instruments designed to completely complement your individual playing style. Each amp is equipped with proprietary custom transformers and coupling caps, the best available new and NOS tubes, and each model has unique build architecture and layout not found in other modern hand built designs. Early K&M customers such as Carlos Santana helped launch the company to the forefront in its earliest days. Current K&M and Two–Rock devotees include John Mayer, Steve Kimock, Mitch Stein, Barney Doyle, Mark Karan, Michael Kang, Volker Strifler, and Matt Schofield, among others. The company launched its line of Two–Rock amps in the summer of 1999. Current models include the Custom Reverb Signature, Overdrive Signature, and the affordable and portable Jet and Jet Signature head and combos. The Classic series of amplifiers have become by far the most popular of any Two–Rock series to date. The line features single channel clean amps with reverb, and several dual channel platforms with different lead voicings, tube or solid state rectifiers, and other tone tailoring options. Power levels of 20 to 150 watts are available.Two-Rock is also celebrating their 10th Anniversary this year, commemorating the event with a 10th Anniversary Limited Edition amp/cabinet package as well as 2 production amps, including the just released 10th Anniversary J-2 head and combo. A number of extension cabinets equipped with special design speakers by Eminence and Warehouse Guitar Speakers are available, as well as an all-tube buffered effects interface(mono or stereo). A number of customized versions of the aforementioned have also been built for players seeking the ultimate personalized tone machine.

Jason Lollar Custom Guitars & Pickups Jason Lollar learned his guitar-making craft at Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in Phoenix, Arizona. Since 1975 he’s been designing and building solid-body electric, archtop and acoustic guitars. In addition to his talents as a luthier, Jason also rewinds and repairs old pickups, and he winds over 25 different replacement pickups, including P90’s, Fender-type single coils, bass pickups, steel guitar pickups, and his stunning Imperial Humbucking PAF pickups. Lollar pickups represent the culmination of Jason’s life long research into the true character and construction of classic vintage pickups, and the same skill and attention to detail is devoted to pickup repairs and rewinds. The ToneQuest Report is proud to recommend Lollar pickups in your quest for inspiring guitar tone.
Jason also builds a limited number of handcrafted solid body, archtop, and acoustic guitars using maple, honduran mahogany, cherry, and alder. Models include the Standard – an Alder solid body, traditional bolt-on design, the Tonemaster — an alder off-set waist, contoured, string-through solidbody guitar with a Lollar Stringmaster style steel guitar pickup in the bridge and a Lollar Chicago Steel pickup in the neck position. Other models include a solidbody ‘V’ style guitar from Honduran Mahogany with a Koa top. Jason’s ‘SG’ style guitar utilizes a super light alder body with a mahogany neck and P90 pickups. The 16” Concert and Performer archtop models feature P90’s, rosewood or ebony fingerboards, dot or gold MOP inlay, Grover keys, single-ply or aged binding, and a standard tobacco burst nitro finish. Jason is currently building archtops with Sitka spruce tops, mahogany necks, and Western maple back and sides. For more information on all Lollar custom pickup designs, repair services, and custom guitars, call Jason or visit the web site.
Jason Lollar
www.lollarguitars.com
206-463-9838

Just Strings.com Now more than ever, guitarists are reaping the benefits of technical innovations in string making that have led to the widest selection of guitar strings ever available. JustStrings.com is dedicated to providing guitarists with the largest selection of acoustic, roundwound and flatwound strings, complimented by exceptional personalized service and outstanding value. Trying different types of strings often results in amazing new discoveries that not only improve the sound of your instrument, but dramatically enhance your playing enjoyment. From traditional hand-crafted strings to high-tech exotics, JustStrings.com exists to help you get the most out of your instrument. Try a new set today, or order your favorite acoustic or electric sets and SAVE! Juststrungs.com offers the best prices on all of the major and specialty brands, promptly delivered to your door. Shop online at JustStrings.com, or place your order by fax at 603-889-7026, or telephone at 603-889-2664.

JustStrings.com, Nashua, NH e-mail info@juststrings.com, www.juststrings.com

Keeley Electronics - Robert Keeley’s Time Machine Boost, Keeley Compressor, and his custom, state-of-the-art modifications for vintage pedals continue to receive rave reviews from guitarists around the world. Keeley pedals are used by Aerosmith, Abbey Road Studios, Steve Vai, legendary producer Bob Rock, George Lynch, Peter Frampton, James Burton, and many, many more guitarists and music pros around the world. The Time Machine Boost is a supremely versatile 2 channel, 3 mode pre-amplifier designed to drive your amplifiers into overdrive or saturation, as seen on the cover of the March issue of VG. The two channels are labeled “Vintage,” and “Modern,” with the “Vintage” side inspired by rare germanium boosts like the Dallas Rangemaster. The “Modern” channel is a new +23dB gain, dual JFET transparent signal amplifier. The Keeley Compressor is a superb audiophile and studio grade compressor with true bypass switching and premium metal film resistors and capacitors for the cleanest Ross clone compressor ever available. Available with a standard Ibanez/Boss style adapter jack and/or battery power, you can say goodbye to that old red Dyna Comp!
Robert Keeley pedal mods include 2 versions for TS9’s - the TS808 mod, and the “Baked TS9” for searing hot Tube Screamer tone. Keeley uses the original TI RC4558P chip that appeared in the early TS808’s, while increasing the bass response and overdrive range. The result is a perfectly voiced 808 that’s cleaner when turned down and produces twice the drive/gain when turned up, with all of the stock 808 character in the middle. The Keeley modded BD-2 is not a fuzz pedal but has the best characteristics of a fuzz pedal, and it’s much smoother and more realistic sounding. This is the pedal if you’re looking for the cranked Fender Super amplifier sound. It has tremendous volume output, and it can be used as a clean boost, driving your amp into natural sounding overdrive. Other exclusive Keeley modifications include the Boss Blues Driver BD-2 Tube Mod, the PHAT Switch BD-2 Mod, Rat Mods, Boss DS-1 Seeing Eye Mod, Boss SD-1, and Boss Chorus CE-2. For detailed specs, user comments, dealer information, sound clips, and ordering information, please visit the Keeley Electronics website.

The basis of every tube amp’s characteristic sound is the unique design of its transformers. Mercury transformers are legendary for their stunning tonal superiority, build quality, consistency, and reliability. We believe in old-world customer service and single-minded focus. Transformers are our only business, allowing us to concentrate on providing you with the best-sounding guitar amplifier trannies in the world.If your amp is suffering from bland and unexciting tone, then it’s time for a transformer upgrade or repair. Here are your options:ToneClone™ Best-of-Breed Series Transformers: Behind every great-sounding vintage guitar amp is a piece of transformer history.

Within any amp line there are usually a large number of transformer variations, inconsistencies and just plain ol’ building errors that affect their sound (good or bad). At Mercury, we seek out, study, blueprint and replicate only the best-of-breed transformer designs (including their all-important anomalies) and add these discoveries to our catalog. And we make these incredible tonal selections available to you through our ToneClone™ line. Axiom® Series Next-Gen Transformers: Next-generation guitar amplifier transformers. The Axiom series are in a class by themselves. We’ve taken our advanced knowledge of modern transformer design and mated it with historically best-sounding designs of the past. Axiom trannys are hybrids that take vintage tone to the next level! More bloom, more overtone color, and awesome tonal depth. If you ever needed convincing as to how outstanding transformers affect your sound, Axiom trannys will astonish you.

Mercury Vintage™ Transformer Service: Most vintage transformers have already outlived or are nearing the end of their life expectancies. That’s the bad news – now for the good... Mercury will restore, rebuild or rewind your valuable original transformers. Or, we can clone your originals so that you can continue to play your old amp without fear of further “wear and tear.

”FREE TRANSFORMER TESTING AND EVALUATION SERVICE: Do you think there might be something wrong with your transformer? Send it to us. We’ll test it in our lab and report back to you. Our evaluation procedures are thorough, complete and reliable, and always free. The only transformers that come with a 10-year Manufacturer’s Warrantee and a Money-Back Tonal Guarantee. Made entirely in the U.S.A.

Mojo Musical Supply is your essential source for vintage amplifier and guitar parts, specializing in vintage pre-1980 reproduction cabinets and replacement components. We offer a full professional range of combo and speaker cabinets, speakers, grill cloth, baffle boards, chassis, transformers, components, tubes, and hardware for all of your amp building needs.

The in-house cabinet shop at Mojo specializes in building authentic Fender and Marshall reproduction amplifier cabinets, custom cabinets from your own design, as well as expert cabinet repair and re-covering. Mojo stocks over eighty different amp coverings and grill cloths to ensure that vintage enthusiasts and custom amp ecreators have a large palette from which to choose. For restoration projects, we also stock vintage-correct replacement faceplates, knobs, hardware, back panels, and reverb parts.

Mojo has also become one of the largest vacuum tube importers in the world, stocking over 20,000 tubes. Because we buy tubes in such large volumes, our prices are always very competitive. We also stock professional amplifier test equipment for the home or commercial bench.

NEW! We now offer pedal repair parts and complete kits, plus René Martinez’s “Texas Guitar Whiz” Signal Splitter.

For guitarists, builders and pro techs, Mojo has expanded our line of premium guitar components and parts to include bodies and necks, a full line of custom-wound single coil and humbucking pickups and parts, pickup covers, wiring harnesses, caps and potentiometers, hardware, tuners, bridges and tremolos, fret wire, knobs, nuts, switches, and more.

Most importantly, you can depend on our knowledgeable and experienced staff here in Burgaw, North Carolina to help you make the right choice the first time! Be sure to access our online Knowledge Base, videos, and blog at mojoshout.com.

ToneQuest readers receive an exclusive 10% discount on all Mojo products! Just reference the “MojoQuest” discount code when placing your order.

Mojo Musical Supply, 513 S. Dudley Street Burgaw, NC 28425
1-800-927-MOJO, www.mojotone.com

Have you ever thought, “If they would just make a Tele with….” , “I love my Strat but it just doesn’t….” “Why don’t they make a Jaguar that could….”? Well, you’ve come to the right place. From exotic woods, custom paint, unlimited neck types, custom designed logos, pickup selections, Timewarp aging, or any other feature imaginable – Esquires with hidden neck pickups, Strats with interchangeable pickup assemblies, Custom Shapes — whatever… If you can dream it, we can build it.

Each guitar is a unique work of art, handcrafted by me. The use of 100% nitrocellulose lacquer, high quality vintage hardware, superior woods and a wide variety of pickups and options produce magical instruments that have thus far not been available “off the rack”. The level of aging on our Timewarp guitars can be adjusted from “played it once a month at church” to “used to break open a window during a fire in a Louisiana roadhouse.”

Bill Nash is an Olympia, WA based builder of aged vintage guitars inspired by Leo Fender. Available through Nash Guitar dealers in the US and overseas. Please see NashGuitars.com for information and a dealer near you.

The brand name PLEK stands for a technology which allows the best fret dress and setup work, based on a computer controlled scan.

The Plek is a computerized tool that scans an instrument strung to pitch, generating graphic views of the fret plane, fret heights, fret shape and placement, fingerboard relief radius, humps and bumps — basically everything that luthiers and repair pros have wanted to see well but couldn’t, until now. Besides having measurement and dressing capabilities many times more accurate than the human eye allows, the PLEK has two particularly great advantages over manual fretwork.

First, it scans and dresses a guitar while it is tuned to pitch. This is a major breakthrough, since necks are subjected to approximately 100 pounds of string tension. This string tension invariably affects the shape of the fret plane, creating curves and humps that change when the strings are removed for a fret dress. The PLEK identifies precisely what needs to be done for perfect results when the instrument is re-strung, whereas even the most skilled luthier or repair professional must guess about how to compensate for the effect of string tension when dressing the neck with the tension released.

Secondly, the PLEK applies very sophisticated formulas for optimum neck curve or relief, adjusting the calculations for the actual string height and individual string gauge from the treble side of the fingerboard to the bass. Achieving these same results by hand would be lucky and extremely rare at best!

The Plek is now in use by some of the top repair and restoration experts worldwide. We invite you to contact the Plek repair shop nearest you, or learn more about Plek technology at www.plek.com

Plek, Berlin/Germany
+49 30 5369–6339, custom@plek.com

Joe Glaser, Nashville/TN
+1 (615) 298–1139, glaserjoetoo@aol.com

Gary Brawer, San Francisco/CA
+1 (415) 621–3904, gary@brawer.com
FretTek, Los Angeles/CA
+1 (310) 474–2238, plek@frettek.com

Peekamoose, Paul Schwartz and Hawley Waldman
(212) 869 2396
New York, NY
e-mail: info@peekamoose.com

Philtone, Baltimore/MD
+1 (410) 783–0260, philtone@erols.com

Suhr Guitars, Lake Elsinore/CA
+1 (951) 471–2334, johnsuhr@suhrguitars.com

Charlie Chandler’s Guitar Experience, London, UK
+44 20 8973–1441, sales@guitarexperience.co.uk

GuitarLabs Scandinavia, Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 644–9480, info@guitarlabs.se

RS Guitarworks You can depend on RS Guitarworks™ as your source for the finest custom guitars, expert guitar finishing, refinishing and aging, complete guitar assembly and repair, custom electronic upgrade kits, pickups, pickup covers, hard-to-find hardware, and more.

Located in Winchester, Kentucky, RS Guitarworks began as a small repair and refinishing shop in 1994. As the word spread among guitarists, business rapidly grew for RS, and today they receive guitars from around the world for restoration, finishing, aging and custom voicing with specialty components and exclusive pickups wound to RS specs by Lindy Fralin. RS’s Old Friend, SolarFlair, Stepside and custom guitars can be seen in the hands of many top players, and offer build quality and hardware second to none. Every guitar RS Guitarworks builds is meticulously crafted with wood personally selected by RS, finished in nitrocellulose lacquer, assembled with premium components, and individually voiced in final assembly as a true custom instrument.

RS Guitarworks also offers many hard-to-find aged, vintage replica parts and other specialty accessories for vintage Fender, Gibson and many other guitars that in many cases are exclusive to RS. The RS Guitarworks Premium Wiring Kits offer a dramatic improvement over the factory electronics found in even the most expensive guitars. During extensive research and development in creating RS Premium kits, they tested over 20 different tone capacitors and nearly every type of potentiometer made before developing the RS SuperPot™. All the RS upgrade kits feature measured RS SuperPots™, that have a 5% tolerance for volumes, and CTS™ audio pots within 10% of their specified value for tone controls. Also in the RS kits are a wide variety of tone caps for single coil and humbucking pickups made by Jensen and vintage-correct replica caps by Luxe. RS Guitarworks™ also feature caps made here in the USA exclusively for RS called GuitarCaps™.

RS Guitarworks wiring upgrade kits impart a fuller, clearer tone than standard factory components, with a smoother, more even and responsive taper from each pot. Additionally, each potentiometer is tested on a digital meter, checked for the proper sweep pattern, sorted and labeled as a neck/volume, neck/tone, bridge/volume or bridge/tone control. Wiring Upgrade Kits are available in Vintage, Modern and Reissue styles for various Les Paul type guitars, as well as 335/345/355, Telecaster, Stratocaster, PRS guitars, and Explorer and Flying V types in both kit and pre-wired versions. Custom wiring and nearly any other configuration can also be built by calling RS Guitarworks™ directly at (859) 737-5300. Please call or visit the RS Guitarworks web site for complete information on finishing, refinishing, restoration and aging of new and used guitars, custom wiring kits, vintage repro parts, pickups and repairs.

Stewart-MacDonald offers a complete line of hard-to-find tools, parts, accessories, instructional videos and books for building, repairing, setting up, and optimizing the playability and tone of stringed instruments. Whether you are just getting started or you're a seasoned luthier, you'll find everything you need in the Stew-Mac catalog, including: fret wire, finishing supplies, glues and adhesives, wood, bodies, necks, binding, tuners, nuts and saddles, inlay, bridges, tailpieces, electronics, pickups, and free information sheets and professional advice! Their friendly customer service and technical support staff are trained to help you make the best product choices, and they also offer an Unconditional Return Guarantee. If you're not satisfied with an item for any reason, simply return it.

Stew-Mac is the leading supplier of innovative products for guitarists and repair pros, and every thing they make is guaranteed to work well, because every product is tested by the professional luthiers at Stewart MacDonald first! The master builders and repairmen on staff include Dan Erlewine - well-known author of guitar repair books and magazine articles, member of the ToneQuest Report advisory board, and a regular contributor to TQR. Dan and all of the experienced luthiers at Stew-Mac personally develop and test every product the company offers, and they are also dedicated to education. The Stewart MacDonald catalog is packed with helpful tips, and the company produces an extensive series of training videos at their facility in Athens, Ohio.

For more information on the entire range of products available, please visit the Stewart MacDonald web site. In addition to their free online help service, your telephone call is also always welcome.

Stewart MacDonald
www.stewart-mcdonald.com 1-800-848-2273

Long before the first Swart amp ever appeared, Michael Swart had been playing through vintage amps for decades at live gigs and recording sessions as both a guitarist and recording engineer in Wilmington, NC.

Despite his access to countless vintage Fender, Vox, and Ampeg amps, Swart always felt the quintessential small recording/home use amp had yet to be built, thus begin the quest for the best tone via a small, manageable package. After a slew of suitcase amp wannabees, emerged the original Space Tone 6V6se, a Class A, 5 watt, Single-Ended, tube rectified beast with an über simple circuit revolving around the soulful 6V6. The amp delivered big sound with unmatched musicality along with amazing distortion. The 18w Atomic Space Tone soon followed to wide acclaim, and Swart amplifiers were quickly embraced by working pros and guitarists who shared Swart’s appreciation for truly exceptional guitar tone.

Today, six different Swart models are hand-built to serve the needs of guitarists for live performance and recording:

Space Tone 6V6se - The amp that started it all. 5w, Class A, Single-Ended, Tube Rectified, 8" Weber, finger-jointed, lacquered tweed pine cab. Amazing

STR-Tweed - Another BIG Class A, Single-Ended 5w w/extra stage, Swart reverb, and 12” speaker.

Atomic Space Tone - Perhaps the amp that REALLY put Swart on the map. Considered one of the finest made. 18w 6V6 or 6L6 with tube reverb & tremolo

AST Head MKII - AST in a head w/defeatable master volume and choice of cabinets

Super Space Tone 30 Head (SST-30) 30w of soulful 6V6/6L6/EL-34 mother of tone beauty. Richer than chocolate. Matching, custom tweed 2 x 12 Space Tone Cabinet

Head to Swart Online for the latest news, rants, photos, raves, artists, events, and dealer locations. Michael answers every call. Kelly responds to every mail. Personal service is #1 priority.

All TQR subscribers will receive an exclusive 10% discount when ordering TonePros components — just mention the “TQGPD” discount code when ordering by phone or online.

TonePros Sound Labs Since our first published review article, The ToneQuest Report has enthusiastically recommended the patented TonePros system of guitar components. TonePros tailpieces feature a patented locking design. For years, guitars with stop tailpieces and wrap-around bridges have been cursed by “lean” or tilt on their stud mounts. Since string tension was all that held tailpieces on, the only contact area was just a bit of the edge of the bottom flange, just a bit of the lip of the stud top, and often just as little contact with the intonation screws. TonePros® Locking Studs provide 100% of the contact area of the bottom flange, 100% of the contact area of the stud top, no lean, and dramatically improved sustain, resonance and tone.TonePros bridge and saddle components feature the “patented pinch” - the lateral pressure that is applied from the strategically placed “tone screws” that greatly reduce the play or wiggle of the bridge posts in their inserts. The posts are frozen in place, resulting in a solid connection between the strings, bridge, and guitar top, transferring more string vibration and resonance to the guitar body, resulting in an audibly stronger, sweeter, woodier type of resonance and sustain. And once your guitar is set up, it’s locked. Bridge height and intonation settings remain intact and exact, even after re-stringing. TonePros® System II Components are found on the worlds best guitars, played by the world’s best artists.

TonePros Sound Labs International
www.tonepros.com/

www.guitarpartsdepot.com/

818-735-7944

Marquis Distribution At Marquis Distribution, we offer the highest quality guitar parts to fit your needs. We specialize in guitar replacement parts, and hard to find, vintage-inspired and vintage replica parts, including aged TonePros and TonePros Kluson parts, emphasizing your desire to achieve a vintage look and tone at an exceptionally high level of performance. Whether you need to replace one part on your guitar or outfit many guitars with whole new setups, our focus remains on the individual customer and your unique needs. Be sure to ask for the 10% ToneQuest discount! www.marquisdistribution.com, 209-845-9579ll

ToneMan Veteran working guitarist Don Butler is an experienced tech who specializes in servicing, restoring JMI-era and modding Korg era Vox Amps to vintage specs. These, of course would be valve (tube) amps. As well as servicing & upgrading any `62-`89 era valve Marshall amps. He also services most other Golden era British valves amps like HiWatt, Selmer, Orange , Laney’s and Sound City ’s. Also included are Tweed , Blonde, Brown and Blackface era Fender Amps.

Don offers a number of standard mods for reissue Vox, Fender and Marshall amps to bring them into “Vintage Spec” and achieve that original tone/sound that reissues sadly lack. These have earned him a solid reputation throughout the country for dramatically improved, authentic Vintage Tone from reissue amplifiers. Don has used the hand-made Mercury Magnetics Axiom/Tone Clone transformers for over 20 years along with vintage spec Sozo Premium caps (both the Iskra/”mustard caps” replicas and Blue Molded Fender types) and Carbon Comp resistors in the signal path to bring reissue amps to Vintage specs. We also mod reissue Vox and Cry Baby Wah Wah’s to original 1967 specs, Ibanez TS-9’s and Upgrade Vox “Valve Tone” pedals.

Don was the first to re-introduce the exact original Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster in 1997. Since 2008, finding good quality OC-44 transistors for this unit has proved near impossible and the pedal has been discontinued.

Don is equally at home working on Gibson Historics and Standard Production guitars, Fender guitars, Rickenbacker & of course Gretsch Guitars. This applies to both Vintage models and current production guitars. This goes for both electrics and acoustic guitars. Anything from Re-frets & Fret Dressing, rewiring, etc. to simple set-ups and adjustments.

Don was also the first dealer for German made Pyramid Strings, starting in 1995. Don does NAMM Show and the Frankfurt Musikmesse for Pyramid. Providing his input, Pyramid has re-introduced the Round Core, pure nickel flatwound “Pyramid Golds” and the exceptional Round core/round wound “Nickel Classics” . All Pyramids use a silver plated core of German Steel and pure nickel wire wrap. All plain strings are pure silver plated German Steel.

Also available now are the Bronze Wound/Round Core Acoustic “Pyramid Western Folk”. These strings are reminiscent of the strings from the `50’s & `60’s before most manufacturers went to Hex cores and smaller wrap wires. Strings can be ordered securely online through the website!

Toneman is open 10 am to 6 pm (Pacific Time), Tuesday thru Saturday!
661-259-4544, de1b@earthlink.net, www.tone-man.com

Check out the all new Regal! From our first Victoria to the one we build for you, every Victoria amplifier is meticulously crafted for real musicians and built to be played for a lifetime. We utilize components and manufacturing techniques that are chosen for their proven ability to meet both the sonic and real world gigging demands that musicians depend on. From the real Allen Bradley resistors (new manufacture, not surplus) to the finger jointed pine cabinets, every aspect of a Victoria Amplifier is designed to provide years and years of faithful service and superior tone. With the addition of our new Victorilux and Sovereign amplifiers, Victoria now offers amplifiers with features like reverb, tremolo and high gain circuits that will surpass anything currently available and define the word “ tone” for years to come. But manufacturing new amplifiers is not all we offer! Our restoration and repair department is equipped to turn the most heinous, hacked up old amp into an inspiring gem. Our obsession with period correct components and our real world expertise are your assurance that an investment piece or an old road hawg will leave the shop with all of its tonal potential maximized. The job gets done right at Victoria Amplifier. You can be sure that we at Victoria Amplifier Co. will continue to provide the finest guitar amplifiers available anywhere, at any price. New from Victoria — the Victorilux and Victoriette — the ultimate club amps, plus, the Sovereign — our answer for players seeking true vintage British tone with master volume and reverb at a stage–friendly 35 watts!

Victoria Amplifier, Naperville, IL
www.victoriaamp.com 630–820–6400

There are a lot of pedal makers around that are just very ordinary. An overdrive, a distortion, maybe a fuzz thrown in, but nothing that really stands apart from the rest of the gear world. Maybe there’s nothing terrible about being ordinary. Ordinary is safe and ordinary is comfortable, but the cost of being ordinary is living inside a box with all the other ordinary companies and builders who are doing the same old ordinary things and selling you the same old ordinary tones. But who wants to be ordinary? More importantly, who wants to sound ordinary?

Wampler Pedals makes effect pedals that are anything but ordinary. Guitarists like Wampler Pedals because they want to sound extraordinary. They want something that inspires them… to play better, create music better, and sound better.

While other builders play it safe selling products they’ve been making for decades, some of them reissuing designs that deserve the label “antique,” Wampler has constantly pushed the envelope with new and exciting products designed to inspire guitarists to break out of the safety of the ordinary and into true excellence. Providing extremely high quality components and genuinely forward-thinking designs at prices that compete very well with anybody in the boutique industry, Wampler Pedals has a product to fit virtually every need.

Brian Wampler didn’t invent the distortion pedal, but anyone who has used a few of his products can tell you he has done at least as much as anyone to make sure that the sound in your head can come out of your speakers. Best of all, it doesn’t stop with what’s available. With Brian Wampler continuing to wield the soldering iron like an artist’s paint brush, the future has some serious tone in store. Wampler Pedals rocks today, and will rock tomorrow as new tonal options continue to be made available: definitely affordable, certainly competitive, and tonefully extraordinary.

As a special offer WD® Music Products, Inc. is offering a 10% off coupon to ToneQuest readers... Visit us at www.wdmusic.com and enter coupon code TQWD at checkout. (Please note: Coupon good for wdmusic.com web orders only, offer not valid on wdbiz.com orders).

For the past thirty years WD® Music Products has been providing quality service and parts to satisfied working musicians, discriminating builders and OEMs. WD® pioneered the field of aftermarket pickguards and continues to lead the way in the niche we created in 1978. We have manufactured thousands of pickguards and if you need a replacement or something you envision yourself we can make it happen. For many years WD® Music has also carried a full line of replacement parts for just about any stringed instrument.

WD® Music is proud to continue the legacy of Kluson® tuning machines, one of the most respected OEM and replacement tuners for decades. Replace or restore your vintage instrument with genuine Kluson® tuning machines from WD® Music. We stock Kent Armstrong® pickups, L.R. Baggs® acoustic gear, Q-Parts® custom knobs and accessories, Bigsby® tailpieces, Graph Tech® products, Wilkinson® bridges, Grover® tuners and accessories, Big Bends® maintenance supplies, Guitar Facelifts, effects and much more.

History is repeating itself with genuine Kluson® tuners, continuing with WD®’s customer service, and...Stromberg® Jazz Guitars. No one can attempt or claim to reproduce the prestige of the original archtop Stromberg® guitars. But with history in mind WD® is also proud to distribute Stromberg® Jazz Guitars. With six models to satisfy everyone from the serious working jazz musician to the rockabilly king Stromberg® offers an affordable, quality instrument for almost any taste or style. Stromberg® jazz Guitars is a small, limited production archtop guitar company whose main goals are quality, playability and affordability. Play one and see.

WD® Music Products. Thirty years of knowledge, service, quality parts and accessories waiting to serve you. Everything from pickguards, tuning machines, pickups, electronics, necks, bodies, bridges, prewired assemblies and hard to find hardware—if your guitar or bass needs it, chances are WD® Music has it. Old fashioned customer service, genuine Kluson® tuners, classic Stromberg® Jazz Guitars, and so much more. Call 877-WDMUSIC or visit:
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Founded in 1995 by guitarist Bob Weil, Visual Sound is excited to announce the release of the brand-new GarageTone series of effects pedals. No longer does a musician on a budget have to sacrifice tone and reliability. The GarageTone series of pedals have been designed to have boutique quality sounds and superior construction at amazingly low prices. Each circuit was designed by Weil and chief engineer R.G. Keen with all the time and care that players have come to expect from Visual Sound. The pedals include: the Oil Can (Phaser), the Drivetrain (Overdrive), the GarageTone Tremolo, the Axle Grease (Delay) and the Chainsaw (Distortion).

We’re also happy to say that we’ve recently gotten rave reviews from Guitar Player and Vintage Guitar magazines. The GarageTone series joins the already critically-acclaimed V2 Series of pedals: Jekyll & Hyde, Route 66, H2O, Double Trouble, Son of Hyde, Comp66, Liquid Chorus, Route 808, Angry Fuzz, as well as the 10^th Anniversary edition of the Visual Volume pedal.

Also, the Van’s Warped Distortion pedal recently completed its participation with this summer’s Van’s Warped Tour for the second year in a row!

At the Winter NAMM show in January, Visual Sound unveiled its newest pedal, the Dual Tap Delay, which will be making its debut in late August of this year!

To find out more about this exciting, new pedal, and for more information about Visual Sound, sound samples, videos, artist endorsers and product information, please visit the Visual Sound web site, new Facebook page, MySpace site, Twitter, or contact Bob Weil personally.

Visual Sound, 931-487-9001
www.visualsound.net
www.facebook.com/visualsoundpedals
www.myspace.com/visualsoundusa