Is your direct tone suffering from an abusive relationship with corporately produced, sub-par D.I. boxes? Maybe you should take a page from Tristan James's book (In Defense Of October, we're assuming) and make your own?

In this revealing video, James literally laughs at the tone that a Whirlwind EDB1 produces in comparison to his hand-wired box, which features re-purposed transformers, silver solder and Mogami wiring -- so he's a bit of a brand loyalist, what of it?