Grateful Dead Music Forum

I thought I would share this will you guys. Lee Owen, the lead guitarist in the dead tribute band I play bass in, Born Cross Eyed, just finished his "Jerry in a box". He and David Taylor, an amp builder in Louisville, built this thing over the last year. It is a one space rack unit that houses the Boss (or maybe MXR) distortion circuit, Octave circuit, mxr phaser, ge-7 style eq and envelope filter circiut that they basically made themselves. Also house a Fender style preamp with digital reverb. The pics suck but you can see the middle unit with all the knobs. The coolest thing is that they put a midi switcher in it. So he uses the midi footswitch and has programmed patches like a Bradshaw switcher or something. the expression pedals control the speed of the mxr and the octave pedal parameters. The other things in the rack are a Roland synth unit for the midi stuff, a Mesa 90:90 power amp.

Pretty cool setup .. Seems like a custom built analog 'Axe Fx', if you will.. Sound clips?

yeah kinda like that, except instead of modeling these are the real analog circuits. I will try to find some video from the last show. It is still being dialed in. he just tried some different LEDs on the envelope filter earlier this week.

The wah still needs some tweaking but otherwise it sounds killer. I hope Lee doesn't mind me posting it
I am the bass player in this band.

editing this post and addiing this clip because it is a bit clearer

https://youtu.be/5EpWhhPSSr0