The GreaseGun

[gordo]

For anyone that hasn't built up their GreaseGun board...don't think that because this was "charity" stuff the board doesn't rip.  It does.  No surprise.  I love this thing.  It's very true to Bean's demo (although I think he used a fairly bright sounding guitar and amp setup).  This is one of those "sleeper" builds that can be used in a ton of different ways.  For me, I tend to use my Afterlife into a Vox Night Train set relatively clean but with the volume 2/3 of the way up (goes for a gutsy AC15/30 clean sound) to where the Afterlife doesn't wreck my volume settings on any guitar but keeps a nice tab on levels.  The GreaseGun takes those polite settings and gets a bit nasty without introducing too much low end grunt or spikey highs.  I'm using it at about wide open volume with the gain set to about 3/4 and tone at anywhere from 2/3rds up to wide open.  This will be one of your "secret weapons".  I don't think I can do better than Bean at a demo but will do a few ">clean" and ">overdrive" examples to stir it up a bit.

[GermanCdn]

Agreed, built mine up last night, still toying around with what transistor to use in Q2, but it sounds really slick.

[selfdestroyer]

Just finished mine tonight also and I have been playing it for the last hour. Really fun pedal.

[culturejam]

I have an etched board all built up, but not boxed. I need to get on that. 

[rullywowr]

I agree; It def needs a tube amp to show it's full potential. I tried through my solid state and it just wasn't there. Then I rocked through my fender blues deluxe and it sounded awesome.

[Droogie]

I had pop'd the board last weekend and finally added pots, etc. last night. I really like what I'm hearing so far. Couldn't really let the dogs out volume-wise since it was on the late side so I'll have to wait to drive some tubular ampage this weekend. I had the trannies in the build doc  so I used those. Any other options that might be worth exploring?