Pedal mongers and DIY tinkerers, beware: the Beavis Board will draw you like a sweet-smelling Venus Flytrap of electrical engineering fiddling, and you'll be lost for days, nay weeks!

If you'd ever had the yen to design your own effects pedals, or you've ever wondered what makes a distortion sound different from a fuzz sound different from an overdrive, than the Beavis Board was designed just for you. By incorporating a "breadboard" -- sort of a patchbay for electrical circuits (you'll find them in multi-line phone network hubs) -- that routs directly to a stompbox-style casing with 1/4" ins and outs, the Beavis Board allows users to instantly test out circuit designs in-line with their current guitar/amp setup. Hear how minute differences in circuit layout interact differently with you pickups, your amp, even other effects pedals, all without even detaching the Beavis Board from your signal chain (you'll want to remove it from a power source, however). The breadboard allows for solderless patching, meaning no additional tools are required for alterations.

The Beavis Board comes with everything you'll need to start building your own effects:

• a true-bypass i/o breakout box that makes it easy to connect circuits to the real world, i.e. your guitar, amps and pedals
   
• A pair of breadboards to build on
   
• A big collection of components: resistors, capacitors, transistors, ICs and more, specially selected for building some of the coolest stompbox/audio circuits

If you just want to learn about how your favorite effects works, the Beavis Board come with documentation detailing the designs for many popular pedals, including MXR Distortion +, LPB-1, Brian May Treble Booster, Gretsch Controfuzz, Orange Squeezer Compressor, Muff Fuzz. . . the list goes on and on.

Interest piqued? Thought so. Unfortunately, the Beavis Boards are currently sold out, but I'd get on the wait list soon. There's nothing else on the market that's as comprehensive and elegantly design as the Beavis Board. I never thought I'd see "elegant" and "Beavis" in th same sentence.