Following up on this, I’m visiting Malaysia this weekend and the Tele is now back in the hands of its original owner (my Brother-in-law) after over a decade.
I also gave him my Spark 40 amp as I didn’t really need it, and didn’t get on with it that well. But it’s a perfect amp for him as he hasn’t picked up a guitar in all this time and will be largely starting from scratch.
Cheers,
Keith
Wow. You inspire to me give away the electric guitar that I bought during teens, that I hardly play 
I’m thinking I should sell some more gear.
Maybe I should start with this:
#HeHasTheBox
Cheers,
Keith
you can get some good money for it
For those who don’t get what this is about; the Bad Monkey was compared with the Klon Centaur, a legend amongst guitar pedals:
Seeing everyone seems to love these, I thought I would pick one up whilst in the UK.
So far, I’m not disappointed. The app even seems to work with Linux under Wine.
Cheers,
Keith
Hum,
Sounds like a candidate for the Justin Guitar’s site I would think. I know you will head him this way, right?
All the best to you and him!
LB
I’ve just sold the Trio+ and additional pedal.
I wasn’t using it.
Cheers,
Keith
What a great read Keith, thank you for sharing.
Goodness gracious, man… I can’t condone this! 
I just realised that I missed a significant piece of gear from my “Road Case”. I realised this as I was selling it.
So I’m going to update this for posterity.
Boss MS-3 MultiFX Switcher
This is a combined switcher and multifx unit. I originally bought this about 3-4 years ago because it had great reviews, and it seemed like a great unit to use as the centre of a pedalboard concept I had in mind.
The unit comprises a switcher with 3 loops and traditional Boss Multifx engine, except it doesn’t have any amp emulations. This unit is designed to plug into an amp, rather than emulate one.
The unit is interesting because you can combine switching in/out of up to 3 external pedals (or chains of pedals) with the onboard effects. So if, for example, you don’t like any of the onboard drive pedals, you could put your own drive pedal in one of the loops. You can then configure patches which can include both onboard effects and external drive pedals.
Other clever things it can do:
The round white things in the photo are pedal “toppers” which, basically, clip onto the top of the pedal buttons and make them more comfortable to use without shoes on. They also tend to spread the light from the LED underneath to make it easier to see.
At the time, I was starting to go to a regular Jam session group and I was planning to build a pedalboard which I could use there, as well as at home with my other amps. My wishlist for the board was:
A big part of this is exploration, not necessity. This list of items is totally overkill for what I actually need or will use most of the time, but the Engineer in my liked the challenge of designing and building something.
The initial pedal board layout I was working on is below:
This includes the Boss RC-3 and a wireless transmitter. The Line6 one is in the diagram because I couldn’t find a graphic for the Boss WL50 which I wanted to use at the time; I have both and find the WL50 much more reliable than the GT10T. The WL50 also has an easy way to wire the guitar in if the battery runs out or there is too much interference.
This design is based on the Temple Audio pedal board range which has side-mountable modules for things like stereo summing, and 4CM switching/connectivity. They even have an Amp module.
The wiring diagram I was working on is as follows:
Anyway, I was still in the planning stage when, in 2019, I was offered a contract in Tokyo which I really would have been stupid to turn down. This meant that my plans for a new pedalboard were put on hold, as I wouldn’t be doing Jam sessions any time soon.
After that, I ended up in Singapore and, of course, in 2020 a pandemic hit the world.
When I was back visiting friends and family in the UK recently, I started looking at some of my accumulated gear and thinking about what to do with it. I ended up bringing some of it back to Singapore as I didn’t see any point it sitting around not being used 11,000 km away.
I have already sold my Trio+. I was toying with the idea of using the MS-3 for the Jam sessions I have started going to here in Singapore, but I have already been using my Boss GT-1 for that and it works pretty well, and I really don’t have all the things I need to build a new pedal board here.
I played around with the MS-3 a bit at home into my THR10ii, but decided it was overkill and it was time to sell it. I’m also seeing some newer devices around which I think would be better for me these days.
So this afternoon I met up with someone at a nearby shopping mall and sold it.
Cheers,
Keith
That’s quite a collection and rich history of gear experiences! Thank you for sharing all of that Keith! A lot of valuable lessons there, especially the one I’ve quoted above. Having just bought a Marshall Code 25 modeling amp, I have found myself wasting hours searching for the “perfect tone”. Slowly I began to realize that there are only a handleful of presets (out of the 100 included) that served 90% of my practice needs which allowed me to get on with practicing my skills and song play which is a better use of my time currently.
Hi Keith,
I’ve got a question on Linux but I’ll message you directly as it’s not guitar related.
John
I feel like I’m on the same wave length as you mate. For practice I sometimes I can’t be bothered setting up the laptop. This does seems like a more simplistic solution which I could see me using as a practice tool. Lets hope Andertons deliver the JS-10 at the end of the month. Though I hold my breath as Boss seem to have a lot of delays, I’m still waiting for a VE-8 to be delivered from PMT.
Well, that was a few years ago…
Since then, I’ve started using either my Boss Pocket GT or, a new acquisition, a Boss Katana Go (which I quickly purchased whilst they had them in stock) and I’m using the Session mode on my phone.
In many ways, this is better for me than the JS-8 as both these are portable solutions. However, I will mention that the Session mode on the app isn’t as flexible as using the JS8/10 trainer features, so I would still consider the JS-10 to be a decent tool.
Specifically, the “slow down” function is, basically, the same as the Youtube capability, so it is limited in what percentages it supports, e.g. 75% but not 80%.
Also, I find the loop section (A-B) function on the app to be a bit hit and miss with timing whilst, on the JS-8, I nail it almost every time.
Have fun with the JS-10 (when it eventually arrives).
Cheers,
Keith
Well it looks like it’s been dispatched, just in time for setting up for some blues practice sessions.
