From the moment he hits the strings … KAPOW!!!

Lenny Kravitz’s guitarist, Craig Ross, spotted here with the James Trussart designed Cry Baby. It lives! But when will it ship?

Pettibone’s previous work with Lucinda Williams is awe inspiring and with the more rootsy, southern vibe of the new Mayer record it could be a great fit. Lets hope JM gets his throat sorted and the show can get back on the road.

Have you checked out the lead single ‘Shadow Days’ from ‘Born and Raised’? Thoughts?

And for a reminder of Pettibone’s greatness check this recent post.

Simple and to the point … would you expect anything less? Gary Clark Jr gets his huge blues tones from his Epiphone Casino, a simple bunch of pedals and a Fender Vibroking.

The pedalboard contains the following (not in signal order):

Analogman ARDX20 Dual Analog Delay > Fulltone Octafuzz > Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer > Roland EV-5 > Malekko Analog delay 616 > Korg Pitchblack tuner > Real McCoy Picture Wah

Go on … watch ‘Bright Lights‘ again : )

Here is the new pedalboard for Robben Ford put together by Vertex Effects. Mason from Vertex is doing work for some of the finest players going, including Tom Bukovac, Michael Landau, Matt Schofield … not a bad client list!

The signal chain of this board is as follows:

Interface (passive) > Korg Pitchblack Tuner > Lovepedal COT 50 Lil’ China > Tanabe Dumkudo > Vertex Boost (Prototype) > Vox Wah (Vertex Axis Mod) > Vertex Volume Pedal (modified Boss FV-500) > Vertex “Michael Landau” Modified Arion Chorus (stereo) > Vertex modified Line 6 DL-4 (stereo) > T.C. Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb (stereo) > T.C. Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb (stereo) > Interface (Stereo Outputs with Vertex Dual Output Buffers > ISO transformer on left output, and a polarity switch).

More info available at Vertex Effects

“I’m using a lot of James Trussart guitars. I really love them. What attracted me first was the visual – he is an artist. His guitars are beautifully crafted, original and they are metal, as you know. They are hollow, and I really like hollow electric guitars. The just have the overtones and sustain that I love. You get more out of them, I think. They just come alive when you plug them in. You’re not sure what they’re gonna do all the time but it’s usually pretty cool!”

And here is Doug with Lucinda and his James Trussart Steel Devillie:

Read the full interview

Plucked from My Les Paul forum.

New video from our blues man of the moment, Gary Clark Jr. Really looking forward to a full length album from this guy.

Features & Specifications

- Completely hand wired in the U.S.A.
- Point-to-point power section
- Brass-eyelet board preamp section
- Two high-grade EL84 power tubes
- Two high-grade 12AX7 preamp tubes
- 5U4 rectifier tube
- Class AB power section
- Cascading preamp design
- Custom-wound transformers
- 4/8-ohm impedance switch
- Normal and High Gain inputs
- Treble, Bass and Volume controls
- Effects loop
- Slave output
- Metal chassis and housing
- Made in the U.S.A.
- U.S. MSRP $1499.99

I am a huge Budda fan. My Superdrive 18 II is my favourite amp ever. I have always veered towards EL84 amps and I love the Budda take on it. Wide, rich, chimey … perfect!

The Baby Budda looks really promising. I would prefer it in a standard headshell as the Lunchbox aesthetic is a little chintzy. Nonetheless … handwired Budda tone in a portable package, I’ll take one!

Gear details: 1995 Custom Shop Master Built w/ Arcane single coil pickups, Dunlop Jazz III pick (90′s era), Dunlop 10 gauge pure nickel strings, EJ Fuzz Face (fuzz knob dialed right around teardrop like EJ), Marshall 100-watt Super Tremolo head into matching era cab with 25-watt Celestions, Vintage Unidyne III, Shure SM-57 into Avalon 737sp channel strip, Pro Tools HD3 with Apogee converters.