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Posted: **Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:30 pm**

any updates on the tourbox...reviews, opinions, thoughts??

Posted: **Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:32 pm**

hey all,,,just an update,,,recieved the pedals yesterday.
Ill play with them thru the weekend and get them moving again first thing next week.
observations will come soon.

Posted: **Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:09 pm**

Robapov wrote:any updates on the tourbox...reviews, opinions, thoughts??

Both pedals are, as you might imagine, well worth the price of admission.

Will provide comparisons and detailed impressions in some helpful format as soon as I get the chance.....probably Friday evening or Saturday morning...

cork

Posted: **Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:12 pm**

awesome, i cannot wait...i am finally settled in to my new place learning new tunes and can finally play as loud as i want when i want!

Posted: **Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:30 pm**

Thread Split ??

Not sure what would be the best way to do this Tweek Tourbox thing with the SOOD and Mystoury...

Should it be a separate thread or continued as part of the SYOD research info ???

Posted: **Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:38 pm**

maybe a seperate thread would be a good idea,,,there are alot of pages here already, might be less confusing.
there could even be a seperate thread for the Mystoury and the SOOD too.?.
either was is fine,,just some thoughts.

Posted: **Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:42 pm**

cabo wrote:maybe a seperate thread would be a good idea,,,there are alot of pages here already, might be less confusing.
there could even be a seperate thread for the Mystoury and the SOOD too.?.
either was is fine,,just some thoughts.

Yeah ok,

Doc, Eyefly and Cabo have had this pair so far ....

Doc is off the net for the moment so go on without him...

Lets call it the Mystoury Fuzz to distinguish it from the earlier Mystoury drive

So whoevers ready to throw down start the new threads if you like and you guys can compare notes as it goes around .....

Posted: **Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:54 pm**

My friend sent me his SYOD to try out, so here's my impressions of the SYOD, if only to add to feedback already posted on it. I found SYOD to be too bright in my rig as a stand alone OD, but this added brightness does make it excellent as a pre-driver stacked into other dirtboxes. The brightness of the SYOD seems to be right in the sweetspot to really excell in pre-driving any dirtbox after it. The paintjob on the SYOD is excellent, very pretty, nicest paint I've seen on any BJF pedal... I still prefer my LAW as a pre-driver over the SYOD, because it's more versatile, & has a very distinct stand alone sound. As my friend says... "The LAW is the best OD I've ever heard!" The LAW is indeed all that and more, a serious world class OD, and it would take an OD of monumental scope to dislodge the LAW from my board. While the SYOD is interesting as a pre-driver in stacking, it's overly bright nature as a stand alone OD limits it's usefulness to me. That said, I mostly play Tele's, so it's tough going for a bright OD in my rig. I wouldn't want to devote the space on my board for a pedal that's only use would be a pre-driver. Don't get me wrong here, I don't think the SYOD sucks by any means, far from it. It's just that I would find it's uses limited, & it's facing very stiff competition on my board.

Posted: **Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:21 pm**

Way back when Bjorn first started making LGW's, I bought one of the first 3, and was immediately floored by his version of a screamer with virtually no compression or mid-hump. It sounded great by itself, and as a pre-driver when stacking. Need some compression, kick on the PGC... I got to thinking about what 2 LGW's would sound like stacked together, so I asked Bjorn if he had tried this, since there weren't that many LGW's around then. He said yes, he had tried stacking 2 LGW's, and it was sounding huge and very usable, as long as you go easy with the gain & volume. That was all it took, and I ordered anther LGW on the spot... Bjorn asked me if I would like a different color, so I had this idea in my head if John Wayne used a screamer, it would lay down the LAW...
I am the LAW 'round here!!!
The Duke of screamers....
Hmmm... What color starts with the letter "A", in keeping with the LAW moniker? This took awhile, but I finally came across a color... Apricot!
So I email Bjorn and ask him if apricot was doable as a color. He says sure, no problem, so I tell him it's settled then.
Little Apricot Wonder... The LAW...

After awhile I get an email from Bjorn saying the LAW is on it's way over the pond, and oh BTW, he couldn't resist tweaking the LAW into something unique and special, but he didn't elaborate on what he tweaked, or how it was special. I never asked for this, I just figured I was getting a standard LGW with a different name and paint...
The LAW shows up, & I hook it up on my board...

WHOA NELLIE!!! This is no ordinary screamer, and no ordinary LGW!!! Not by a long shot...
The LAW sounds killer by itself, very much different than my stock LGW, but still in the same family...
Hokay, lets stack it in front of my other LGW...
Uh oh... This stack just freakin' rips! Hello!
Alright! Let's stack it after the stock LGW...
Yowza!! Sounds excellent, but quite different, since it imparts more of it's tone fingerprint when used after other dirtboxes...

Now it's time for the ultimate acid test... The LAW into the DRD...
Now were talkin' big hair, flap the pants, stadium rock tones! Modded Marshall, JCM800 sounds!! Endless sustain but still punchy, good for alot of styles, Satch to smooth jazz.
The LAW sounds awesome into the EGDM too, more of a dense, blizzard of nails, cranked AC30 sound...

The LAW freakin' rules... The best stacker, bar none, of any BJF pedal, hell, any pedal period, I've ever played, and I've owned or tried just about all of them...
It's also the best overdrive I've ever tried, and nothing has even come close to knocking it off my board. I seriously doubt anything will...

Not many have tried the LAW, but I sent it to friend so he could try it out as a surprise. He was shocked that I would send it to him, since I feel naked without it now, and told him that. He called me on the phone freaking out! "The LAW is the best OD I ever heard"!!! I knew the LAW was good, no question, but my friend is an overdrive junkie, both new and vintage, and he's somewhat of a screamer guru. For him to say that about the LAW, well...

What makes the LAW unique? The best way I can describe it, is the LAW has a little more gain on tap, and it comes on quicker. It also has a bit more treble and upper mids available than a standard LGW, but not too much, and they can be dialed down with the body control if need be. After swapping out a few chips, I settled on the LF353 as the best, which gives the most headroom, tone, and punch. I ran it at 18vdc for a few years, which I highly recommend. Right now I'm running it at 12vdc for a change of pace.

BTW, I used the LAW for quite some time towards the end of my dirtchain as more of a flavorizer, and it works really well this way too. I mostly use it as the first dirtbox in the chain, right after the PGC, to take advantage of it's killer pre-driver capabilites, an of course it's the foundation of my entire dirtchain....
The LAW also has an inside graphic of the Duke sporting a cowboy hat, while saying, "I'm the LAW around here..."

I recently asked Bjorn what he did to the LAW that makes it different?
He said it wasn't that big deal... He just spent some time hand picking each component, trying them in the circuit, & listening to each change until he found the best possible tone with his ears, then went back and did it again, to find the best components by ear for stacking with another LGW, until the best possible components were found for both stand-alone use, and stacking... Using his ears!

I guess The LAW is an optimized LGW, painstakingly hand tweaked by ear into the best sweetspots possible.
I'm lucky to have it, and although I've said it before, thanks again Bjorn!
The Little Apricot Wonder is the LAW...

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