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Here's the boy genius working on his next project: an effects pedal, guitarists for the use of. It's going to be a kind of overdrive thingy.  Phil is doing this in partnership with another guitarist chappie called Rohan who, whilst he's nifty on the fingerboard, is useless with a soldering iron. The components were bought as a kit from somewhere in Germany and unfortunately the instructions are only online, and in German. So there's been a bit of head scratching. There's a lot to be said for iterative trial and error as a learning process.