Tag: Berthold Erdmann

A few weeks ago, as you know from the previous “Obsessed With Tone” posts, Bert had started to build a small series of guitar effect pedals.
Today he finally put the final touches on all three of them.
All pedals are now fully functional (even though they still might require the one or the other
fine tweak), and painted and finished with decals and knobs etc.

In the picture above you can see all three of his first attempt of building boutique guitar effect pedals.
From left to right:
in the baby blue housing you’ll see the “BC109 Fuzz” pedal, a Dunlop Fuzz Face clone with BC109 transistors;
in the silvery housing in the middle you’ll see the “Ram’s Head Muff” pedal, a Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi clone from the Ram’s Head era;
and last but not least in the golden housing all the way to the right you can see the “Triangle Muff” pedal, a Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi clone from the so called Triangle era.
The entire band is very exited about the new additions to Bert’s carefully crafted pedal board and can’t wait for the next opportunity for him to show off his fantastic sound.
Come and check Bert’s “new sound” out when KayaMBeE will appear live the next time. We are sure that he will bring the new pedals along…

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Well, this time we are not going to talk about yet another home made guitar effect pedal, and we thought we’ll kick it up a notch.

As most of you know, Bert’s “other hobby/obsession” is his guitar collection. In Bert’s opinion,
there has been one thing we always struggled a little bit with, which is the Beatles guitar sound.
Most instrumental to the early sound of the Beatles is without any doubt the instruments they were playing. If you want to nail that early Beatles sound there is almost no other way to achieve that sound but by using similar guitars as they did back in the day.

So it is probably no surprise that Bert has been working on one of the new guitars he has acquired recently: a Rickenbacker style guitar.

Come and check the “new KayaMBeE sound” out at one of our upcoming live appearances. We are sure that the new Ricky will be among some other six string treasures…

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www.KayaMBeE.com

As mentioned a few weeks ago, Bert has been busy with his “new hobby/obsesson”, and the third pedal has finally been finished.

Last time we mentioned that Bert had pretty much finished Pedal #1: the “BC109 Fuzz” and Pedal #2: the “Ram’s Head Muff”.
He just started building Pedal #3: a “Triangle Muff”

Just like with pedal #2, the name pretty much gives it away what kind of effect pedal this is: a Electro-Harmonix “Big Muff Pi” from the so called Triangle era. Once again, those of you who also belong to the “circle of guitar gear heads” and familiar with this particular pedal probably already know or can guess what kind of sound Bert is trying to nail with the “Triangle Muff” pedal… 😉
All we want to say at this time is, you need to check out the Pink Floyd stuff when we are playing out next time. You will be blown away by the wall of sound á la David Gilmour which Bert will be producing with his new collection of fine guitar effect pedals. And this brand new “Triangle Muff” is going to be heard when Bert will rip into solos such as in Comfortably Numb, Young Lust and other fine Pink Floyd tunes.
Come and check Bert’s “new sound” out when KayaMBeE will appear live the next time. We are sure that he will bring the new pedals along…

visit us also online:
www.KayaMBeE.com

As mentioned two weeks ago, Bert has started “a new hobby”, if you will (even though some might still call this another obsession): building guitar effect pedals. In the attempt to perfect the KayaMBeE live sound, Bert has started to build specific pedals, so he can nail the “original” guitar tones of those songs KayaMBeE is covering live.

Last week we mentioned that Bert had pretty much finished Pedal #1: the “BC109 Fuzz”.
Today we want to talk about Pedal #2: the “Ram’s Head Muff”.

This time the name gives it clearly away what kind of effect pedal this is: a Electro-Harmonix “Big Muff Pi” from the so called Ram’s Head area. Those of you who also belong to the “circle of guitar gear heads” and familiar with this particular probably know what kind of sound Bert is trying to nail with the “Ram’s Head Muff” pedal… 😉
Come and check his “new sound” out when KayaMBeE will appear live the next time. We are sure that he will bring the brand new Ram’s Head Muff pedal along.

AND, (drum roll) stay tuned for more, as Bert is already building his third pedal…

visit us also online:
www.KayaMBeE.com