WTDP?: When and why did you start making effects pedals?
Greg: I started making pedals around May 2006. I made a few various pedals but locked in on doing the Precision Overdrive after a few months. I made a trip to LA and was able to get the pedals in the hands of some great players with great ears and they liked ‘em – so from there I knew I had something to build on. Before that I had been putting together pedalboard and rack systems for local players (Austin, Dallas, and Houston). I was using a bunch of modified Boss and Ibanez pedals in the systems I was building, when the quality of the mods declined and it became difficult to get pedals moded in a reasonable time frame, I started modifying them myself. My customers really liked the pedal mods I was doing so I decided to do a few pedals from scratch. From that point on I’ve been hooked.

WTDP?: At what point did you realize ‘Hey, I might be able to make a little money doing this.’?
Greg: You can make money at this? As soon as I get out of the red I’ll get back to you on that one.

WTDP?: Is there a stomp out there you wish you had made?
Greg: I wish I had come up with the 3Xfx Fatman / V2. At the recent pedalfest in Austin I thought that pedal was great and it was the most original idea I had seen in a very long time. I love the creativity of the 3Xfx stuff. Oh yea, and anything done by Jeorge Tripps – I love his work! He has great ears and is amazingly creative. His Foot Pig is one of my favorite pedals ever.

WTDP?: What’s on your workbench right now?
Greg: Right now it looks like my tool box threw up on my bench. It’s time to do a little housekeeping. I have a few Precision Overdrive boards that I’m working on and I am troubleshooting a pedal system that I’m doing for a friend of mine where I’m putting four (4) pedals and an A/B box (for tuner mute) into one enclosure ala Pete Cornish. It’s all XTS Custom Pedals – a Precision Overdrive, a distortion circuit I’m working on that has a few different types of clipping, a rotary chorus that’s similar to a Boss CE-2 but with a little more speed, and a digital delay that I have been doing that sounds very echo plexy and has about 600ms. I hope to have it up and running very soon.

WTDP?: You’ve got free reign to assemble your dream trio. If you’re on guitar, who’s playing bass and drums (alive or dead)?
Greg: Wow – man that’s a tough one – I think Steve Bragg came up with the best rhythm section every. So until Steve’s rhythm becomes available I guess my rhythm section would be Pino Palladino on bass and Carter Beauford on drums. I think the groove out of those guys would be amazing. Let me know if Pino and Carter become available – I’ve already booked the gigs.

Thanks Greg!