FS: Pete Cornish and RMC

Gassage

FS: Pete Cornish ABY Box (Grey Series) with phase reverse and ground lift

Right. Let's address the elephant in the room. This is a Pete Cornish ABY box. If you don't know what that means, close this thread and go back to looking at your Boss compact pedals. This is not for you.

For everyone else, you already know. You've already opened a new browser tab to check your bank balance.

Two amps. One guitar. Output A is unbalanced unity gain, low impedance, ready to feed an amp or another effects chain. Output B is ground-lifted on a TRS jack with a phase reverse switch on the back, because Pete understands that 50% of the time you plug a second amp in, it's going to be out of phase with the first one and you're going to wonder why your tone has just collapsed into a thin, asthmatic version of itself. Pete fixed that thirty years ago. You're welcome.

Build quality is what you'd expect from a man who has spent his entire adult life refusing to compromise on a solder joint. Cast aluminium enclosure milled to within an inch of its life, internal grounding scheme designed by someone who treats hum like a personal insult, switching action that feels like cocking a Webley revolver. You could drop this out of a Hercules at 30,000 feet and the only damage would be to whatever it landed on. Probably your foot.

Hand built, wired and tested by Pete, his wife Lynda and his son Mingus in a workshop in Sussex that has the same vibe as the Q Branch lab in Goldfinger but with more cups of tea.

You cannot ring Pete and order one. Well, you can, but the wait is currently quoted at "between four to six weeks" , which in Pete Cornish time is a unit of measurement that means "somewhere between three months and the heat death of the universe." If you do somehow get him on the phone, he will ask you a series of questions about your signal chain in a tone that suggests you have already disappointed him, and then he will quote you a price that requires two pints to recover from. 

Remember, Pete still answers the phone on a Bakelite handset with a wind handle on the side. If you ring him, you can hear the rotary mechanism click through each digit as he picks up. He will say "Cornish" in the same tone a headmaster used to say your full name in 1973, and you will immediately forget why you called. The fax machine in the corner is connected. He checks it. There is no email guarantee. He answers it occasionally. There is a phone number, a wife who answers it on his behalf, and a quiet sense that you are wasting everyone's time, including your own, but especially his.

This one is already built. Already tested. Already broken in by a man who knew what he was doing. No wait list. No deposit. No phone call to Sussex.

£300 shipped UK mainland. PayPal F&F or bank transfer. No trades, no offers, no "but Reverb shows them at...". I know what it shows on Reverb. So do you.

FS: Real McCoy Custom RMC10 "The Perfect 10" Wah  SOLD

You've owned a Cry Baby. You hated it. You sold it. You bought a Vox V847. You hated that too. You've got a 535Q in a drawer somewhere with a worn-out pot and the smell of regret.

Stop. Stop now. The wah journey ends here.

Geoffrey Teese is the wah guru. Capital W, capital G. He spent the better part of three decades reverse-engineering every Italian Vox from 1967, measuring every inductor, plotting every sweep curve, presumably while muttering darkly about Thomas Organ tolerances. The RMC10 is what he produced when he was finally satisfied, which for a man like Teese is a state achieved approximately once per lifetime.

Inside: free-standing Switchcraft jacks, double-clad PCB, a custom metal-can inductor that took longer to develop than your university dissertation, and the exclusive RMC-ICAR potentiometer which sweeps so smoothly it should come with a cigarette and a glass of Chianti. Foxrox fuzz-friendly circuitry inside, so it actually plays nicely with the Phuzz on your board instead of doing that strangled-cat thing every other wah does in front of a fuzz.

Tone is full Italian. Vocal, quack-forward, top end that opens up like a Maserati downshifting into third. Voodoo Child territory if you've got the wrist for it, Tales of Brave Ulysses if you don't. Either way, the Q hits fast and the sweep is short and focused, so you don't need the ankles of a flamenco dancer to make it sing.

True bypass. Adjustable rocker tension. Crinkle black finish, no LED because Geoffrey doesn't believe in unnecessary distractions and frankly nor should you.

If you've got fuzz on your board, single coils in your guitar, and any interest in sounding like 1968, this is the only wah you need to own.

£175 shipped. PayPal F&F or bank transfer. No trades. No "would you take less for collection." Collection is welcome at full price and you can have a cup of tea.

Supportact

I never thought I'd enjoy reading a description of an ABY box so much! 

theatreanchor

The description makes me wonder why you’re selling the Wah tbh. Sounds too good to sell!

GoFish

That Teese wah is in good nick and a fair price for the perfect 60's rock wah sound. The RMC10 is his tribute to his late wife and it is very sweet indeed. 

Gassage

theatreanchor said:

The description makes me wonder why you’re selling the Wah tbh. Sounds too good to sell!

I don’t use them.

Wazmeister

Brilliant brilliant post, and yes, I am thinking about the Cornish…

Gassage

Right: 250 for the switcher; 145 for wah

Gassage

BUMPITYY BUERMP

robinbowes

Very happy RMC10 owner here - if you're in any way wah-curious, buy this - you'll love it!

2volume1tone

Best wah I ever owned - 

Gassage

ALL SOLD