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Calculated Musical Research Hand made musical devices built from scratch in Denver, Colorado. Message for order inquiries. Thank you for your support!

02/11/2023

I’m taking a sabbatical from building electronics to focus up on my music - I’m so grateful for everyone who has supported me in the past - please keep supporting boutique builders, you all make this possible for us - please checkout my music at on IG and - I’ll be back behind the fumes eventually, but for now it’s all music - much love y’all! - don’t ever stop pursuing your dreams…

12/08/2022

60’s Naugahyde Egmond guitar rebuild with onboard Rangemaster treble booster, rubber bridge, hand-wound pickups

McGibney Guitars

real tasty collaboration between McGibney Guitars, , and on this 60’s Naugahyde Egmond guitar (made in Holland) with on...
12/08/2022

real tasty collaboration between McGibney Guitars, , and on this 60’s Naugahyde Egmond guitar (made in Holland) with onboard Rangemaster treble booster driven by a NOS 60’s Mullard yellow jacket OC44!

All three pickups were hand-wound by - a Jazzmaster pup in the neck, a mini humbucker in the middle, and a PAF in the bridge

the Rangemaster treble booster was built on protoboard by and has two trimmers under the hood, one for bias, one for volume, and wired to a switch that activates/deactivates the circuit and battery simultaneously

hand-sculpted the rubber bridge, re-did all of the electronics with new high quality kit, routed out for all the pups, and handmade the insanely cool pickguard that now adorns this vintage fantasy machine!

see the next post for a quick clip of Cole from CMR taking her for a spin >>>

teamwork makes the dream work! let us know if you’re looking for any onboard delights, we’d love to make it happen for your axe

quick preview of a Rangemaster treble booster on a small board to be installed onboard a Jazzmaster-type guitar because ...
12/07/2022

quick preview of a Rangemaster treble booster on a small board to be installed onboard a Jazzmaster-type guitar because onboard effects are completely awesome - more on this soon >>>

🪷⚡️🪷The Fuzz From The Black Lagoon is a riff on the Joe Gagan Easy Face, a hybrid silicone/germanium fuzz face with uni...
11/14/2022

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The Fuzz From The Black Lagoon is a riff on the Joe Gagan Easy Face, a hybrid silicone/germanium fuzz face with unique ‘Blend’ and ‘Pre-Gain’ controls, but for this one we went all germanium and added an external bias control - It rips!

This monster includes a NOS pair of germanium transistors - a 60s General Electric military spec black hat 2N1303 and a 60s Texas Instruments 2N1305, NOS Sprague, Nichicon, and Paktron capacitors, NOS carbon composition Ohmite and Allen Bradley resistors, Switchcraft jacks, PRO feather-click footswitch, four k***s (volume, pre-gain, blend, and an external bias adjustment)

swipe for clips, I’ll make a more detailed video soon showing how versatile this fuzz face is, it’ll go gooey and gated to tight and saturated to sweet germanium overdrive and has excellent cleanup

Available now, DM to purchase

10/29/2022

‘The Mummy’

Fuzz Face with mods 💀⚡️

The NOS Germanium transistors plus a couple of the Fuzz Face ‘Hendrix’ mods make this Mummy scream! see the previous post for the full specs on this Halloween tribute to the great Boris Karloff

available - DM

‘The Mummy’ Fuzz Face with modscontinuing my movie monster fuzzes for this Halloween weekend here is my tribute to the g...
10/29/2022

‘The Mummy’
Fuzz Face with mods

continuing my movie monster fuzzes for this Halloween weekend here is my tribute to the great Boris Karloff in a modded Fuzz Face with some real spooky NOS candy!

This mummy ROARS 💀⚡️

- NOS 60’s yellow jacket Ediswan XA112 germanium transistor
- NOS Jan 65’ black hat General Electric 2N1303 military spec germanium transistor
- a couple of the ‘Hendrix’ mods to make the output of Q2 much louder plus more gain
- NOS Sprague and Nichicon electrolytics
- NOS tropical fish cap
- NOS Allen Bradley carbon comp resistors
- 9V battery powered
- top mounted Switchcraft jacks
- Alpha potentiometers
- black anodized aluminum k***s
- feather click PRO footswitch
- high quality black wire throughout

- available, DM

⚡️demo video coming shortly

happy Fuzz Friday! today we have the first pair of Brassmaster Tributes I’ve ever released, #014 in Electric Green and ...
10/28/2022

happy Fuzz Friday! today we have the first pair of Brassmaster Tributes I’ve ever released, #014 in Electric Green and #015 in Violet!

🧪😈🧪😈🧪😈

electric green or violet durable powder coated enclosure with a high gloss UV print - green or UV/purple LED w chrome bezel and dress nut - anodized aluminum k***s - high quality green or violet wire throughout - premium 10k hour Rubycon electrolytics - premium WIMA film capacitors - high quality KOA Speer carbon film resistors, master volume k**b (makes this fuzz ultra useable in a live setting or with other pedals), reverse polarity diode protection, true bypass wiring, high quality Lumberg power jack, premium open frame Switchcraft input and output jacks, high quality Alpha potentiometers, high quality black wire throughout, toggle switch chrome dress washers - lovingly hand made in Denver, CO

***the Bass Brassmaster is voiced for bass but kills on any source with its distinctive legendary slurping synthy octave fuzz - it also puts out a copy of the clean source that can be blended to taste via the brass/bass vol k***s, then dial it into perfection with the master volume k**b

thanks so much for everyone’s support!!!

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10/27/2022

‘Werewolf Of London’ Si Tone Bender MKII - McGibney Guitars Tele - 1965 Fender Deluxe Reverb

DEEP EVIL LAUGHTER 💀

guess that song 🧟‍♂️

the Werewolf is still available, don’t use it during the full moon, or do but only if you hold in possession the Mariphasa lupine lumina

Werewolf Of London Si NPN Tone Bender MkIIdoing a few movie monster builds for Halloween this year, stay tuned for more ...
10/24/2022

Werewolf Of London
Si NPN Tone Bender MkII

doing a few movie monster builds for Halloween this year, stay tuned for more tricks and treats

the Werewolf contains a pair of NOS Si Texas Instruments BC183 transistors plus a 2N5088, giving this unit a bit less gain than some TB2s but is incredibly warm for a silicone fuzz and cleans up beautifully on the guitar volume pot as well, very pleasing even breakup and sustain but still with a good dose of that classic velcro rip

the Werewolf Of London is available, DM

demo video tomorrow 🐺

branding is feelin on point *️⃣*️⃣*️⃣free sticks with every pedal!\|\||/|/
06/11/2022

branding is feelin on point *️⃣*️⃣*️⃣

free sticks with every pedal!

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