#wyllie

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Wyllie Hall, University of Wisconsin Parkside. Gyo Obata, 1972.

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Gortash romance this, Rapheal romance that—

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G.S. Wyllie - Moonrock No. 25

cred: reverb.com/Hermetic Effects

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State of the Stomp: Adventures in Sand-Casting Stompbox Enclosures by Putro Sehat - July 9, 2023

Putro Sehat on how he started with his own sandcast enclosures

cred: premierguitar.com/pro-advice/state-of-the-stomp/adventures-in-sandcasting

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Collector Effectors - Moon Wolf

one-off with a custom psychedelic dot finish

“Hammond 1590j enclosure, wired on hand cut and painted Vero board we have Panasonic and Sprague caps, KOA Speer resistors, 2N3904, 2SC945 and 2N3704 transistors, 1N1418 diodes and a transformer!!!

The Moon Wolf is my take on the GS Wyllie Moonrock! It can do nasty reverse envelope fuzz sounds up to octave and well into splatty ring mod alien lullabies.  It is super interactive with your guitars pickups and controls and cleans up greatl!”

s.more about G.S.Wyllie

cred: facebook/Pat Brown

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GS Wyllie

an original pedal and fuzz circuit builder who cast some of his own enclosures, his special legacy is kept alive in the fuzz building community, eg. by Collector Effectors, who’s Moon Wolf is a take on the GS Wyllie - Moonrock, and Maine Guitars Portland, who did a research and present an old interview of the man in their blog: G.S. Wyllie is my name

“his father was a radio repair enthusiast and encouraged him to build his first fuzz.  He met Hendrix when he was younger and living in NY.  When I met him, he lived in the woods of Carrboro, NC and made his fuzzes by hand with all sorts of random parts and methodologies.  All his circuits are unique and fun but the good old Moonrock and Rising Sun are my favorites.He was a kind dude and had a fantastic imagination” (Pat Brown)

“I ordered my Bendola (#8) direct in 2003, mailed Glenn a USPS money order, his standard form of payment. Features his standard carbon film resistors and green chicklet caps (Maybe radio shack parts?). There is 3 Germanium Transistors that have been painted black; 1 philips OC black glass shaped, and 2 NKT shaped. There is also a germanium diode. Standard Gain, Tone, Volume controls. I think this was Glenns MKI typre, cause with the tone and gain in the right spot its very ‘satisfation’ per Glenn. Of course the tone control has plenty of Bass available when needed so the Bendola has some nice range and gets those retro Bender tones.I ordered my Wylo (also #8) in 03’, paid by money order. Carbon film resistors, green chicklets and 2x Si Transistors. Appears to be 1 Si diode and 1 Germ diode. Vol, Tone (w/ pull boost), gain. The Wylo is described as a mutated Tone Bender with overdrive characteristics, and I suppose thats pretty accurate. Definitely not a fuzz face type. When you plug in its for sure a fuzz but it has a focus and roundness that is overdrivey. Not great cleanup, the gain control has a nice range but even at lowest settings theres still a little hair. Big volume output and at full fuzz you can get a nice volume boost with clear ballsy fuzz tones. The overdrive characteristics kick in at high gain and really hold it together. Tone at full CCW is a bass boost that injects a lower register without getting too soft. If you pull the tone knob you get a nice upper mid boost (and volume boost) that when used with tone full CCW, Gain maxed and volume turned up yields some serious thunder, and its tight! With tone boost pulled, tone control midrange or above, with gain on max its thick, focused and cutting with a real nice complexity. Ive read reviews of the Wylo and it seems that maybe the reviewers didnt realize there is s ‘pull boost’ on the Tone control. Or maybe Wyllie ditched it on later builds?” (Perry Roper)

cred: facebook.com/Rodrigo Fuentealba Palavicino, /William Isbey, /Perry Roper,

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G.S Wyllie is my name - Noise From Maine, March 30, 2021 

[this is a research on G.S.Wyllie, an original pedal and fuzz circuit builder who cast some of his own enclosures, done by Maine Guitars Portland, ME:]

“Where does the name come from? - G.S. Wyllie is my name”

G.S. Wyllie started making pedals in the 1960s, I wish I had known more about him before he died in 2014. I recently took on a quest, if you will, to try and locate his Moonrock Fuzz pedal for Nicholas Kula of Catalinbread Pedals. Although I have yet to locate one I have uncovered a little bit of the fascinating character he was and encountered two of his friends online who cherish his creations so much they wouldn’t sell them to me and I wouldn’t buy them. Some things just belong with some people.

G.S. Wyllie's line of effects included the Fuzzmite (wild, thick, full range strange fuzz), the OZO (dynamic alien octaver), the Moonrock Fuzz (a fuzz that has just one dial for it's fuzz, swell feature, and octaver), the Wylo (a hard rockin' fuzz pedal with drive, tone, and volume controls), the Over-Tron (An overdrive that peaks into fuzz with a switch), and the Rising Sun (shin-ei superfuzz/classic fuzz from yesteryear).

G.S. Wyllie was also know to build guitars, sitars and mandolins.

I uncovered an old interview with the Man the myth himself, G.S. Wyllie:

How did G.S. Wyllie start?

I began making pedals away back in the early '60's when the Gibson Maestro Fuzztone left its indelible mark on my ears with the Stones' Satisfaction song.

My father was an electrical engineer and showed me how to read schematics from when I was 12 or so years old. We borrowed a Maestro from a music store and copied the circuit. (pirates!) We then drove to the electronics store for the Germanium transistors, caps, pots, etc. I took 18 gauge sheet steel, bent it with a hammer and vise into a similar shape as the Maestro, and soldered it together with a propane torch, flux, plumbers solder. Ran into a big problem with DPDT stomp switches. They could not be found anywhere, so I subbed a toggle for the first few I made, then came up with a solution. I could get SPDT on,on stompswitches, so I installed them very close together and soldered on a steel "cap" to bridge the 2 together. DPDT!

Where does the name come from?

G.S. Wyllie is my name.

How do you name your pedals?

A funny story... When I first cast my pedal shells, I used plaster of Paris for the mold, modeling clay for the pattern. I was casting a shell with a smooth surface using molten pewter, but when pouring it into the mold, it erupted like a volcano, spewing molten pewter everywhere. I hadn't dried the plaster enough, and when water turned to steam, BLAM! When I cracked open the mold, I had what looked like a Moonrock, and named it so.

Can you tell us something about the production process?

Nearly everything I make is designed and made by me. Exceptions are the Wylo, a mutated Tone Bender, and the Rising Sun, a Shin-ei Superfuzz with expanded controls.

The Fuzzmite, Moonrock and OzO are very different from other circuits and produce unique sounds. I spent more time developing the Moonrock circuit then I spent time with my girlfriend and she let me know it!

I used to cast my own enclosures, now the patterns are sent off to a foundry where they are cast using a match plate, making 4 shells at once. It takes a lot to make them into pedals, milling, drilling, grinding, sanding.

Which of your pedals is the most popular?

The Rising Sun is a very popular pedal of mine, it has an etched graphic on top. I also offer it with a polyester film image due to the sketchy way the etching turns out these days. I originally bought enclosures from quite a few companies and got excellent results when etching them, but... now they manufacture them using (I guess) recycled scrap metal amalgam. That makes it unknown from one box to the next just how it will turn out. Usually it will have weak areas and odd spots here and there. But the image will never rub off, its there permanently, forever! I guess it's whats inside that counts and that pedal has all the fuzz anyone could ever want.

Who uses your pedals and for which genres?

Mostly all my pedals have been made for each individual, one at a time, on order. I don't usually make up stock and promote them. Tonefrenzy buys some pedals of mine and stocks them, sells to some major artists around the world.

What does the future of G.S. Wyllie look like?

I sold about 10 of those early Fuzztone clones for $15 when a real Maestro cost $36! Way back then you could get the exact transistor #'s, they almost always sounded perfect, and cost less than 50cents. These days I've managed to keep my costs down and most of my prices haven't changed since 1999.

I no longer make pedals that use Germanium transistors due to quality issues.

Are you working on any new products?

I've recently developed an extraordinarily powerful octaver/fuzz, the R.U.X. Right now it's in a plain small Phase 90 style rectangular case. 3 knobs, 3 switches is just too much to cram into the cast boxes. Its available like this now, and I should have more info on it (sound clips, etc.) on my site soon.

[G.S. Wyllie’s site was http://home.mindspring.com/~wylo and meanwhile unfortunately is expired - as I remember it was quite chaotic and crammed with interesting stuff]

[further, there are comments to the blog entry of people who seem to have known the man:]

Edly  February 2, 2022: If you’re going to use an entire article, shouldn’t you include the author’s name? I knew Glenn very well and wrote about him, but if you’re not even going to give an author credit, I really don’t want to share the writing. It’s simply professional courtesy, as well as common decency.

John Oakley  December 2, 2021: My name is Mike Oakley (Mojo), I was a very close friend of Glen’s. He made my first electric guitar witch I had for 20 years. I sold it to Mark Stewart of the Paul Simon band.I also own the first two “Moonrocks” both are prototypes … the very first prototypes.I saw Glen most everyday in the early 90s. He lived less than a mile or two from me and I was on his way to town where he got his supplies. Spoke at least once a week after I left Chapel Hill. So sorry I wasn’t closer when he was ill. Seems like he could have used a friend. Glen or “LG” as we called him the “Lone Guitarist” was a fine guitar player and a very creative guy.I only wish I had met him a lot earlier then 1983. Every time I would go to his place witch was often he had a project going on. When the pedals started happening I had to have one and he needed the money for more supplies so I got the very first two. I still have them both, One works great the other needs work as a wire came loose and I am scared to work on it myself. I will sell one to the right person and if anyone reading this knows someone that might be able to fix the pedal please let me know. thank you and RIP my friend!

davison welch  July 21, 2021: rip glenn—love you man—after all these years your pedals still cannot be beat—fuzzmite and magic stars forever

cred: maineguitars.com/blogs/noise-from-maine/g-s-wyllie-is-my-name

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W.L.Wyllie was an artist in oil, watercolour, etching and aquatint of marine and tidal Thames subjects. W.L.Wyllie was born in London on 5th July 1851, son of William Morison Wyllie and brother of Charles Wyllie. W.L.Wyllie studied art at the Heatherleys in 1865, and at the Royal Academy Schools between 1866-69, winning the Turner Medal 1869. W.L.Wyllie was the father of Harold Wyllie. W.L.Wyllie lived in Portsmouth for many years from 1907 and died in London on 6th April 1931. Acknowledged as one of the leading marine artists at the turn of the century. Marine painter to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, Ryde. Work in the National Maritime Museum. EBay item number 234807070355 #wlwyllie #wyllie #marineartist #williamlionelwyllie #art #etching #erithreach #erith #erithrands #coldharbourpoint #maritimeartist #artist #artforsale #engraver #prolific #prolificpainter #artforsale #signedart #artist #artgallery #gift #giftidea #artoftheday #artofinstagram #artgram #artists https://www.instagram.com/p/ClwaDgsIY_P/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=