“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:

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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.

“Even though I did these while doing homework on my own Giggity pedal, they do also prove that the EJ fuzz sounds pretty awesome…Bear in mind that these were done with a real signed off version of EJ’s pedal. Other than myself, Jeorge Tripps and EJ, any other people that claim to have a different color/version are not hearing the final product.”
- James Santiago, Voodoo Labs

“Let’s see…yes there is a fuzz face coming out and I am very happy with the way it sounds. In my humble opinion, it is the closest I have ever heard to the original FF. I actually think in addition, they are more consistent than the old ones. Hats off to Jeorge Tripps for working hard on this one. There is also a speaker coming out that I am very excited about. George Allessandro and I worked for quite awhile to tackle this challenge but for me, it was a necessity as finding old originals is increasingly difficult. It has the wonderful even harmonic characteristics of the old speakers which I have never been, up to this point, able to duplicate with new speakers…”

“…here are some photos of my prototype Eric Johnson Fuzz Face I picked up in Visalia, CA on 7/15/11. This thing sounds great in front of my Twin but sounds even better through a Marshall (I tried a 1970 big box 50W). I’m not sure if the production one will have them, but mine has BC183′s. This unit was hand wired by Jeorge Tripps. He founded Way Huge and is currently the Director of Product Development for Jim Dunlop. He also worked on the Hendrix and Bonamassa Fuzz Faces. A genuinely nice guy and it was a pleasure to meet him. It, to me, was even more of an honor to get to meet Eric back stage after the show. I cannot wait for the production version to come out so I can A/B them.”

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A new pedalboard for Buk designed by Vertex Effects to approximate the previous one. The point being to have one for the road and one close to home for session work in Nashville. According to Mason from Vertex this is another huge board weighing in at close to 100lbs in the case. Quite an arm stretcher!

The signal chain is as follows:

INTERFACE (passive w/ master bypass) > Electro-Harmonix POG 2 > Boss V-Wah > Xotic RC Booster > Way Huge Green Rhino > ZVex Box of Rock (re-housed) > Nobels ODR-1 (re-housed) > Analogman King of Tone > Way Huge Pork Loin > Vertex GE-7 Equalizer > INTERFACE (effects break-out) > Peterson Strobo-Stomp Tuner > Neo Instruments Ventilator > Boss VB-2 Vibrato > Keeley TR-2 Tremolo > Dunlop Volume Pedal (Vertex modified) > Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man (Vertex modified/calibrated) > Strymon Brigadier (stereo) > Vertex EHX Stereo Memory Man w/ Hazarai (stereo) > INTERFACE (stereo outputs with ISO transformer and dual output buffers)