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This Prototype is hand built and signed by Andy Carter | Production Manager at Greer Amps in 2014
In 2014 "Andy is the Greer Amps production manager. He's a master of the 4 string rumble monster, and he has named his soldering iron. That's right...he has a name for that hot pencil that he uses to build your pedals! Favorite guitar: Andy's homebrew P/J Bass. Favorite pedal: Tarpit--heavy tones on bass!"
Andy Carter was Production Manager was Greer Amps in 2014. Andrew Carter has since moved on to Military & Commercial Fasteners Corp. Quality Manager with Assurance and Operational Excellence. A leader with a passion for continuous improvement, team building, and operational excellence. The last picture is a picture of Andrew Carter.
The TarPit Integrated Circuit Fuzz Machine is the newest release from Greer Amps. This pedal was created out of the desire to have the sound and feel of a vintage Muff style fuzz, with grit, and grind that will sustain for days. Based on the vintage Big Muff Pi variant that utilizes two integrated circuits, with some Greer Amps tweaks instead of the normal transistorized version!, (not the standard 4 transistor version), the Tarpit has all of the sounds that one might expect from a Muff style fuzz, and so much more.
I've only seen the NWP initials on Nick's Prototype Pedals. The NWP is a nod to an old friend of Greer's that passed away in a car wreck when he were 15 years old.
The following is from the internet about Greer
What do the initials on your pedals mean?
The initials on our pedals that you’re talking about are on the back of the pedals, at the bottom…at least that’s what I am assuming. This gets a little dark, but, it’s the truth. NWP is a nod to an old friend of mine that passed away in a car wreck when we were 15 years old. His name was Hal. Hal was a great friend to me, and we grew up together in south Georgia. I have a photo of him on my work desk in my office, and I look at it daily. When the wreck happened, I told his father that I would make sure that I always remembered him…his father and I remained friends until he passed away not too long ago, and we would often talk on the phone, with Mr. Dean (Hal’s father) calling to check in on my wife and I, like we were part of his family. I don’t tell anyone what NWP means, as it was something that Hal and I kind of used to joke back and forth about, and it’s “ours” in a way…he was a catcher when we played recreation league baseball, and we never wound up on the same team, so every time I would get up to bat, we would talk smack to one another…I remember at one point, we kept yelling at each other while I was in the batter box, to the point that the umpire was laughing so hard he had to take a break, but the pitcher kept throwing…life was fun growing up with him around, and I miss him daily.
Are there any other insights into the building process, Greer Amps, or yourself that you would like to share?
As for other insights into Greer Amps, I’d just like to let people know how grateful and thankful I am to be in the position that we are in. I never in my life thought that this would become a career for me, and never imagined doing this for as long as I have (24 years on May 13, 2022—that’s crazy!)…I’m very very very appreciative of all the support that we’ve had over the years, and I’m thankful to those that believed in us…I’m even more thankful to those that told me this wouldn’t work, and that I couldn’t do this as a job…they truly did push me in ways that I didn’t see in those moments…for that, I am grateful!
One more thing that I want to add that I would love for our customers to know. All of our pedals are assembled by hand…it’s time consuming, but it puts each circuit into the hands of someone that looks it over multiple times before it goes into the enclosure. The switches and potentiometers and all of the through hole components and such are soldered into place by hand, as well. This means that there’s a level of Quality Control that mass produced pedals do not always receive. Each pedal is then tested 2-3 different times, at different points in the production process, before they get boxed. We often get asked why we have a wait time on pedals and on production—it’s simple, really…we do things in a way that takes a bit more time, and in doing so, I believe that it yields a better product. While we’ve had offers to license circuits, or even have our pedals built elsewhere in higher quantities, I personally think that we build a better product by doing things the way that we do them. Our demand has increased, and with it, we have tried to scale some, but we are seeing order volumes go crazy. I’m thankful for all of these orders, and for the patience of our dealers and customers as they wait for their pedals to be built. We strive to build the best product at the best price that we can.
About: When Nick was young, he asked his grandfather a question about life, and how to know what you were supposed to do in life. His grandfather Allen's response was a short one, "You'll know...you just know when it clicks." Allen Greer was an amazing man, full of wisdom. He never said a lot, but what he said was to the point. "Pick one thing--do that really well, and you'll go far." Nick always carried those words with him. People often ask why Greer Amplification makes so many distortion pedals. The answer is simple. "I picked one thing. I didn't like the sounds I was hearing, so I decided I could do it better than some other companies." That one thing is distortion (overdrive and fuzz included). Nick has built the signature sound for many guitarists by designing truly unique circuits of his own, and by taking vintage circuits and adapting them, modifying them, and tweaking them so that they hardly resemble their predecessors. So...why do we build so many distortion based pedals? Simple. Nick picked one thing--Grandpa Allen never said you had to do that one thing one way, and each of our pedals have their own unique flavor to add to your tone recipe!
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