ToneQuest sits down with Mike Wald of Waldotronics, the obsessive tone-seeker who reverse-engineered Jerry Garcia's on-board buffer and OBEL circuitry to build the Spud and Spud II buffers now found in guitars throughout the Dead-inspired scene. From cracking open Tiger's electronics cavity to schooling players on McIntosh power amps and JBL speakers, Waldo goes deep on what it really takes to cop Jerry's tone.
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