Janky Amps gear demos - Seppuku OctaveDrone & HoF

[grindonomicon]

Gear demos with tons of fuzz and the small battery powered cigar box amps I make & sell.

Katanasound Thundercloud (Japanese big muff) and Dr. J Shadow Echo, battery powered amp, 4 string cigar box guitar on this one...


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhQ_QZHjsxg[/youtube]

[Chankgeez]

Sounds pretty fantastic.

[grindonomicon]

Thanks!

And another I did yesterday... JANKY0003, different speaker than #4. Out Sound Fuzz Master (Ibanez Standard Fuzz clone), and Shadow Echo on this one. This one sounds sooooo cool. So much sustain, and the Fuzz Master is crazy raw.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUPuF-dyXAw[/youtube]

[gnomethrone]

good stuff man. where in wisconsin are you?

[grindonomicon]

Thanks! Appleton area these days.

[DRodriguez]

These amps are awesome. One of those would be ideal for a casual mobile rig (among other purposes). Do you have a website?

[grindonomicon]

Another thanks! I don't have a website yet. Up until this month I had just been making these type of amps out of recycled (usually multi media speaker / radio / boombox etc.) parts.

Now I'm using a standard amp unit / pot / jack / power source, and I've got a large collection I've accumulated of small high quality recycled speakers. Have parts ready for 6 more in the next week or so. 2 will have tiny @ 2.5" 25 watt Onkyo speakers, two larger boxes will have slightly larger speakers than these two, one great blue plastic-coned Sony speaker, and the other a 60 watt Panasonic driver in the same range as the two above, but louder and better low end response.

I'd be happy to trade one for a mid-price used pedal or I sell them for about $85 ppd.

[Eivind August]

That's really cool! Might very well hit you up for one of these.

[DRodriguez]

Awesome, what kind of pedals are you interested in for trades?

[grindonomicon]

Awesome, what kind of pedals are you interested in for trades?

Could really use a reverb pedal for the demos and slide blues/ punk stuff; used Hardwire RV7 or TC HoF are about the only in that $ trade range tho... Didn't dig the Boss RV5. Hardwire Delay DL8 or Valve Dist-OD (SC2 I think?). Boss RC1 / TC Ditto / Digitech Jam Man basic looper? Fuzz, Fuzz, Fuzz. Esp weird textured or "60's" style right now, could use a nice sounding Fuzz Face (I has the doom fuzz tho I would still probably trade for more haha). Overdrive, esp ones w/ a lot of character-thickness-eq control... Harmonic Perc clone so I can do Big Black cigar boxing. Boss FZ2 (the Superfuzz / boost one) or another HM2.

Hit me up with a list. I am a pedal junkie.

[grindonomicon]

For your Saturday viewing 'pleasure'... Cigar box amp + dimed HM2 = grindcore chainsaw fun. Need to do this with a 'song' and drum track next time...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9HhfDJsTx0[/youtube]

[grindonomicon]

New batch of Janky action...


Sony speaker. Not the loudest, rattles nice w. the box and speaker grille.


Yamaha speaker. This one is probably the rawest sounding one yet. Did a youtube video but I'll do a better one tomorrow...


60 watt Panasonic beast in this one. ILF'er gnomethrone has this one now. And I have sweet sweet reverby goodness. Plus hanging out w/ ILF'er = cool and took him to local record store. My female friend said I went on a man date.


Lil' 2.5" 25 watt Onkyo in this one. Louder than you think. Cuts low bass in a cool way w/o flubbing out.


More amp & pedal demos tomorrow; Hall of Fame reverb, Seppuku OctaveDrone, Fuzzrite clone... Trying to do some noisy punk / fast rock and droney / gazey / Sonic Youthy riffs this time around...

[gnomethrone]

This amp is badass. Cool breakup on its own, gets real heavy with some fuzz. Ive been sittin around trying different pedals through it since I got home. No bad sounds yet. Amp set to a little breakup with stacked reverbs is soooo good. Grindonomicon is a solid dude with some cool little amps.

[grindonomicon]

This amp is badass. Cool breakup on its own, gets real heavy with some fuzz. Ive been sittin around trying different pedals through it since I got home. No bad sounds yet. Amp set to a little breakup with stacked reverbs is soooo good. Grindonomicon is a solid dude with some cool little amps.

You should do a smartphone video... Esp w. that Jazzmaster and some doomy / post rock riffs... Should have gotten a little footage when you were trying them out!

And, fun new demo... Reverb and OctaveDrone stacked. Get MESSY.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_CB1M91O88[/youtube]

[grindonomicon]

Made a one string electric acoustic resonator diddley bow... Acoustic demo and a doom demo.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ZsjOsul98[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekmDHaIui-U[/youtube]