Thursday, June 26, 2014

'Fender Blues Junior III Modifications and other stories'.

This week I had on my workbench a limited edition Fender Blues Junior III. This example came in a 'Chocolate Tweed' cabinet, a burgundy metal jewel-light and a Jensen P12Q Alnico speaker. The owner
had done a lot of research on how to make it sound better and brought me the amp along with the BillM- Audio and Fromel Electronics upgrade kits. This post is about these modifications, but while writing a story about this little spider came to mind...


Thursday, June 19, 2014

Liquitone Product Catalog


These are the products that are currently part of the Liquitone catalog. They are divided it three main groups; 'Standard Range', 'Deluxe Range' and 'Custom Range'.
The list will be updated with pictures, demo's of current and new offerings along the way.

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Liquitone Collection 2008-2014






These are most of the builds I built over the years all collected in one gallery, including my earliest builds or what is left of them.


Custom Stereo Vibe 001 and 002



C U S T O M  S T E R E O  V I B E  0 0 1


The Custom Stereo Vibe 001 is very similar to last years Deluxe Stereo Vibe 001 but without a seperate expression pedal, so those functions are moved to the main enclosure.


Wednesday, June 11, 2014

The Beginnings of Liquitone Audio Electronics

This is the story of how I got started in building pedals, of how things evolved over the years and some advice on how to get started  building your own pedals.

The Wah and The Worm; the very beginning...


It all started in 2008 when I needed to replace a broken inductor in my 1994 Vox847. .I found a webshop and bought a reissue red Fasel. Up to then all I knew was how to fix a battery-snap with ducttape, so now I  needed to learn how to solder and how to read the schematic of the Vox, which led me to sites about modifying.
Instead of just replacing the inductor I ordered more parts, salvaged some old radio's, did the 'sweep cap', and 'vocal' mod and painted it red. This led me to experimentally swapping parts and adding switches to my old EHX The Worm, trying to make it sound more like a Uni-Vibe. It had a expression pedal for speed, countless foot- and toggle-switches and a lot of LED's added. I changed the name of the pedal to 'Liquivibe' which in turn led to coming up with the 'Liquitone' brand name.

Liquivibe, 2008

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Development and custom builds



 At the moment I am working on a few custom builds and because of specific customers wishes I have been trying out some new things with circuits and enclosure finishing.