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Seem to have slipped back into business after disappearing for a while (I heard the guy that runs it had a nasty bike accident).

The Gary Hurst/CBS Arbiter stuff looks pretty cool, but this Shatterbox video is high on the WTF scale. I know Dave Main's called his original some nasty names, but is it really supposed to gate like this?


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boblob wrote:Seem to have slipped back into business after disappearing for a while (I heard the guy that runs it had a nasty bike accident).
Actually, that's Steve Giles & Vintage Pedal Workshop I'm thinking of. They seem to be gone for good.

The BPC site mentions Nick Browning, who did the JMI stuff with Steve Giles. I see a "Hiwatt" vid on there, so the JMI link is still there...

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Giles is alive

I like fuzzes, but this thing sounds gey. No one clones shitterbox for reason

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Yeah, he's very much alive. Just had a look on the DAM forum - apparently he had a falling out with some business partners and had to wind up the operation back in 2012. Dunno about the bike thing - a mate of mine told me that.

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The motorbike thing is also what I heard. Business fiasco might be just a bonus.

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boblob wrote:Seem to have slipped back into business after disappearing for a while (I heard the guy that runs it had a nasty bike accident).

The Gary Hurst/CBS Arbiter stuff looks pretty cool, but this Shatterbox video is high on the WTF scale. I know Dave Main's called his original some nasty names, but is it really supposed to gate like this?



I don't think it's supposed to gate that badly, I think it sounds a bit mis-biased too be honest, I seem to remember checking out a youtube video clip of an actual vintage Shatterbox that sounded way better than the one in the above video, even my Tonebender Mk I build sounds better than it.... :thumbsup
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Shatterbox = Shittybox

Simon, seriously. This pedal is gey. This pedal was engineered by ear cancerd monkeys from outer universe.

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What do you mean by gey? Not a term we hear in UK.

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Gay, alright? U know, like all those BBC presenters of the 70's

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boblob wrote:
boblob wrote:Seem to have slipped back into business after disappearing for a while (I heard the guy that runs it had a nasty bike accident).
Actually, that's Steve Giles & Vintage Pedal Workshop I'm thinking of. They seem to be gone for good.

The BPC site mentions Nick Browning, who did the JMI stuff with Steve Giles. I see a "Hiwatt" vid on there, so the JMI link is still there...
JMI amps sometimes used by The Shadows.

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The Home Of Fuzz Since 1966 :slap:
Come on...

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Rangemaster looks shitty inside:
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Tone Bender MKV is modified MKI with clean option..? :slap:

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uncleboko wrote:
boblob wrote:
boblob wrote:Seem to have slipped back into business after disappearing for a while (I heard the guy that runs it had a nasty bike accident).
Actually, that's Steve Giles & Vintage Pedal Workshop I'm thinking of. They seem to be gone for good.

The BPC site mentions Nick Browning, who did the JMI stuff with Steve Giles. I see a "Hiwatt" vid on there, so the JMI link is still there...
JMI amps sometimes used by The Shadows.

Giles was doing AC's for JMI reissue. Nothing in common with jennings musical instruments but the name

New JMI is Music Ground grup company (as well as UK Hiwatt, and few others). MG chairman and his son got the sentence for doing scams. They were selling fake amps and guitars few years ago. Google music ground

S.Giles left MG and started VPW.

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Just to clear up - Giles started to build vox-ish projects for mg after that whole scam saga exploded.

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beedotman wrote:[ Image ]
What da... biatch, what the fuck is that?!?

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sinner wrote:
beedotman wrote:[ Image ]
What da... biatch, what the fuck is that?!?
That is Nitro, featuring the ridiculous show-off Michael Angelo Batio [smilie=rlp_smilie_207.gif]

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There were some good "Hair Metal" bands in the 80's but they didn't really get the success they deserved because the show-off bands got all the attention and they took it to ridiculous extremes, then the Grunge era killed that all off..... :thumbsup



I'm going to do some breadboarding of the Shatterbox circuit soon and see if I can come up with some mods to turn it into a great sounding fuzz, will post my findings in the workbench section so stay tuned...... :thumbsup
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biliousfrog wrote:
sinner wrote:
beedotman wrote:[ Image ]
What da... biatch, what the fuck is that?!?
That is Nitro, featuring the ridiculous show-off Michael Angelo Batio [smilie=rlp_smilie_207.gif]
Not a clue what's that still. I'm guessing it's 80's kind of thing

I smell YMCA full flavour in some measure

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sinner wrote:Just to clear up - Giles started to build vox-ish projects for mg after that whole scam saga exploded.
Yep, the MG "business" was big news over here. Made the national papers by dint of them having sold stuff to a lot of celebs.

I thought Steve Giles had cut out long before that. Oh well.

The Doubler sounds quite decent and there don't seem to be a schematic for the original knocking about, which makes it kinda more interesting.

The Fuzz King is just a Muff variant.

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