I'm really happy with it. It's extremely simple, which appeals to my minimalist aesthetic, and the novel feature is a built-in power attenuator, which lets one switch between 1/4, 1 and 4 watts. Perhaps I'm kidding myself, but I really love the sound, and it feels much more natural and warm (whatever that means). My project guitar sounds pretty damned good through it, which surprises me a bit since I've been finding the sound bad when played through my usual setup of Boss Micro BR and headphones. In fact, the other thing waiting for me when I got home was a set of used Lace Sensor Gold pickups which I bought used from a guy on strat-talk. I still want to swap them in, but it seems less urgent. I wish there were a way to do it easily to hear the difference. Which brings me to
A Cool and Impractical Idea
Given the simplicity of guitar wiring, it would seem very plausible to create a sort of "lego" for guitar electronics, allowing one to snap in new pickups, pots and caps. People seem to have created various home-grown things to do this. Acme Guitar Works uses "Cannon Connectors" whatever those are, and one guy wrote about using RCA plugs. That is clever, but RCA plugs are rather bulky. What I'd really like is something with a pin, like the cables on a TENS unit. So far I can't find it though. I bet there are people who would love something like this, but the market for it is probably so small as to make it not worthwhile. A big company like Seymour Duncan could make it as a special feature. In fact it would seem to help them sell a lot more pickups as people might be much more inclined to try new pickups.
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