I've been building pedals for several years and spent quite a bit of time building clones of pedals; using designs I found at DIY pedal and amp forums. Like most guitarists, I was on what my friend Mike Gerardi dubbed a 'Tone Quest' (Mike is also an amplifier designer and one of the best amp techs in upstate New York - www.AmpSmith.com) While researching pedals, I ran across several DIY sites and forums dedicated to pedal design. I had an degree in electronics, did some board work, I figured I could do it.

I bought a pre-made circuit board for a compressor (the famous scripted logo one!), bought the parts and made the pedal. That was it, I was totally hooked. I enjoyed every part of the process, picking out the designs, reading about mods other DIY'ers had come up with, reading white papers on design, debugging and testing the circuits, and utlimatly playing out with pedals of my own design.

I built everything! I must have built 12 different distortions/overdrives, 4 tremolos, a delay, several phasers, headphone amps, autowahs, a chorus - I read forum posts, read a lot of electronic theory, re-learning analog circuit design, trying to understand it all. I even tinkered with my own designs, and had quite a few tweaked versions of some classic designs I thought were pretty damn good. I thought long and hard about maybe marketing my own boutique pedal.

Then it would come time to put the pedal in an enclosure. (check this out!).

Even if I designed the Holy Grail of guitar tone nobody would be interested something that looked like that, worse, no one would take the pedal design seriously.(That's my scripted logo clone, btw...)

I tried the standard rectangular aluminum boxes and even painted or etched still had a 'home-brew' feel, not the boutique quality product I'd pictured in my head. So...

I designed my own!

I designed several different enclosures and as of October of 2007 began offering my YY design enclosure. (I have two more designs coming, a smaller version, for those one and two knob designs, and a larger pedal for some of the more complex designs). All with the classic slanted front design, made of road worthy aluminum.

Available in many colors and finishes, custom drilling is also available for short run boutique designers, (drilling template coming soon!), these enclosures will get your pedal noticed.