June 2023

The Vibrovox Connection with Rich Lasner

By Scott Ulrichs. Rich Lasner, Vice President of Development for VOX/KORG, shares a wide-ranging conversation spanning his decades-long career — from guitar lessons with Ted Greene and Eddie Van Halen on the couch, to signing Steve Vai and Paul Gilbert at Ibanez, to building the Flea bass at Modulus and steering VOX guitars into the modern era.

THE GOODWOOD

Function Junction

By Scott Ulrichs. Grant Klassen, owner of Goodwood Audio, discusses the design philosophy behind the Interfacer and Underfacer junction boxes — ingenious tools that bring stereo routing, ground isolation, and rig flexibility to players who don't need a full switcher system.

THE KEN FISCHER

Friendship Freight Train

By Jason C. Arthur. Jason C. Arthur of JCA Circuits shares personal memories of Ken Fischer — the legendary Trainwreck amp builder — tracing their decades-long friendship from a chance phone number passed along at a Philadelphia music shop to deep late-night conversations about electronics, life, and legacy.

CLANCEY COMPTON

The Life of a Repairman and Luthier

By Riverhorse. ToneQuest sits down with Clancey Compton, a Texas-based guitar repairman and luthier, to hear how he went from tinkering with a Squier Strat in a cabin in the woods to building custom guitars and doing expert repairs at Houston's Rockin' Robin Guitar store.

JAY JAY'S TALES FROM

The Twisted Road Part Three

By Jay Jay French. Jay Jay French, founder and guitarist of Twisted Sister, recalls the band's grueling early years on the tri-state club circuit — and one unforgettable night in 1977 when a drunk fan got duct-taped to a Marshall stack and loved every minute of it.

The Hudson Electronics Broadcast

By Scott Ulrichs. Hudson Electronics' hand-built Broadcast is a transformer-coupled, discrete Class-A germanium pre-amplifier capable of everything from clean boost to gonzo fuzz — and the Ariel Posen signature AP variant pushes the concept even further with silicon transistors and an OEP transformer.