Sixty/Forty Custom Pedals

Sixty/Forty Custom Pedals Built-to-order effects pedals with your artwork acid-etched on the enclosures. West Philly based, built by Jeff Bowne (Jeff Bigg) Q/A

Q: How does this work?

A: Well, what kind of pedal do you want? Distortion? Reverb? Delay? Modulation? A clone of some classic? Something weirder? Not sure? We'll talk it out and settle on something awesome. Then you design the art that will be on the pedal, which I can also help you with. Handsome Beard Etching does all my acid-etching (check him out on Facebook, he also does etching for Fuzzrocious and Dunwich Amplifi

cation among other small companies) You pick the k***s, the color of the LED, and any other customization. I build it, you play it. Q: Do these pedals have your logo or brand name on them? A: No. The only thing on your pedal is the art you created or chose. Brand names on pedals are good for advertising the company, but they're usually unsightly. It's YOUR pedal, not MY billboard. If someone sees it on your pedalboard and asks "what's that pedal?" you can choose to them who built it for you or you can just say "secret sauce" and blast out a solo in their nosey faces for bothering you. Hell, you can even tell them you build it yourself. Q: Do you design your own circuits? A: Not exactly. Everything I build is based on existing circuits using pre-designed boards from one of a long list of sources. I may then modify or add to those circuits depending on what the customer wants. Then again most boutique "original design" pedals are based on a classic circuit with the builder's own tweeks. There's almost nothing new under the sun. I'm providing a service rather than selling a product. If you want a one of a kind personalized pedal, but you lack the skill or the interest to build it yourself, that's what I do. You get the sound you want, hand-wired with quality components, in a package that looks exactly how you want it to look, without paying sky high "boutique" hand-wired pedal prices. Q: Do you also mod or repair pedals? A: Yeah sure.

Dirty dirty dirty power amp style distortion with volume, gain, and tone plus on the left we got two mids shift k***s th...
06/30/2019

Dirty dirty dirty power amp style distortion with volume, gain, and tone plus on the left we got two mids shift k***s that you can switch between with the left footswitch. I like to set the top one slightly scooped for riffing then kick in a searing mids boost for cutting through on leads. This idea worked out really well.

This beast made one dirty bass player's dreams come true. It's a bass preamp with two foot-switchable gain settings runn...
08/14/2018

This beast made one dirty bass player's dreams come true. It's a bass preamp with two foot-switchable gain settings running into a modded Green Russian Big M**f circuit.

My "quiet pedal" for quick dynamic shifts. A volume drop k**b with a treble bleed cap to clean up a dirty amp while reta...
07/08/2018

My "quiet pedal" for quick dynamic shifts. A volume drop k**b with a treble bleed cap to clean up a dirty amp while retaining brightness and an optional pair of schottky diodes for getting quieter but with added gritty distortion. A completely passive circuit. There's a carbon zinc battery in there just to power the LED. Resurrect dead on planet Jupiter.

Based on a choppy sawtooth tremolo from the 60's and built for one of the hosts of the tabletop RPG podcast "This Game C...
03/16/2018

Based on a choppy sawtooth tremolo from the 60's and built for one of the hosts of the tabletop RPG podcast "This Game Could Be Your Life". https://thisgamecouldbeyourlife.com/

An interesting idea I had that I finally got to build. A reverb with two dwell controls that go from tame to endless sel...
06/05/2017

An interesting idea I had that I finally got to build. A reverb with two dwell controls that go from tame to endless self-oscillation that you switch between with a momentary footswitch.

This one's handsome with a gold plated footswitch. Guess what it sounds like...
05/11/2017

This one's handsome with a gold plated footswitch. Guess what it sounds like...

Big M**f circuit (NY Reissue variant) with a few mods and extra controls. A versatile fuzz beast.
03/29/2017

Big M**f circuit (NY Reissue variant) with a few mods and extra controls. A versatile fuzz beast.

A Zvex SHO clean boost clone with an output volume control to get a little grit out of it.
03/29/2017

A Zvex SHO clean boost clone with an output volume control to get a little grit out of it.

Dogs love dirt. This double filth box, half gated octave-up fuzz and half raw power-amp style distortion, was custom bui...
02/28/2017

Dogs love dirt. This double filth box, half gated octave-up fuzz and half raw power-amp style distortion, was custom built for Mike from Allentown PA's brutal noise rockers tile.

It's coming to get you, Barbara. It's a big hall reverb in a really small enclosure featuring poster art from the 1990 r...
02/19/2017

It's coming to get you, Barbara. It's a big hall reverb in a really small enclosure featuring poster art from the 1990 remake of Night Of The Living Dead.

Funkzilla? 59 parts on a small board, two very temperature sensitive vactrols (photoresistive opto-isolators), and one f...
08/25/2016

Funkzilla? 59 parts on a small board, two very temperature sensitive vactrols (photoresistive opto-isolators), and one frustrating diode-ruining mishap later... it's a clone of a MU-TRON III Envelope Filter with a couple extra controls for more versatility.

Built this distortion pedal with an interesting layout. The two k***s on the left are tone and the two on the right are ...
07/19/2016

Built this distortion pedal with an interesting layout. The two k***s on the left are tone and the two on the right are gain. The left footswitch toggles between the two tone k***s and the right footswitch toggles between the two gain k***s. So you get two gain settings and two tone settings on the fly, four combination. The top footswitch turns the pedal on or off and the middle k**b is just output volume. The red LED indicates effect on, and the two pink LEDs indicate when the secondary k***s are engaged.

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