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@bigfoot_engineering

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Established 2009 by guitarist and engineer Rhys John Stubbs.

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Thanks to everyone that came down last week to see us in London and Brighton ❤️💪
Big love to everyone involved

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A few substitutions on the main @schmidt_array_pedalboards pedalboard. What a dream pedalboard 😍

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It’s all about having a cuppa ☕️ while your band mates are shredding

ID TRACK - Sitting Stealth

#ukjazz #indie #jazz

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The birds, the bees, and my new song ‘Ziemelu Vejs’ (The North Wind).

Streaming / Merch / Tabs - link in bio

#sologuitar #folkmusic #acousticguitar #newmusic #instrumental

@elixir_strings
@atkin_guitars

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Fretboard Journal Podcast 543: Rhys John Stubbs of @bigfoot_engineering, who, when not building effects pedals, has been busy recording a gorgeous acoustic instrumental record on a borrowed @jkmguitars baritone. The album is called 'Zems' and it's out now (and highly recommended). We get the whole story behind Bigfoot, the record, Rhys' hand injury and so much more. Link is in the bio.

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My new album ‘Zems’ is out today on all music platforms.

The inspiration to make this record came in 2024 at the Birmingham Guitar Show, where I played a captivating instrument built by Jacob Menear. It was an acoustic baritone, which sits halfway between a guitar and a bass, and I loved its unique voice so much that I began planning to re-record a collection of my songs tuned down low (zems in Latvian). Eighteen months later, I finally plucked up the courage to ask Jake if I could borrow the guitar. One week later, it arrived at my door.

I made this album in the Bigfoot workshop over the course of nine days in late autumn 2025. I wanted to create an intimate and honest record, following the story of my grandad who fled Latvia during WWII. He was thirty four years old, the same age as me when I composed the opening piece ‘1944’. He left everyone and everything behind, but made it to England as a refugee of war where he went on to start a family of his own.

Forty seven years later, when the Soviet Union collapsed, he was finally able to return home. Miraculously, he was reunited with his little sister. This record closes with ‘Liktendarzs’, the first ever solo I composed for guitar. It’s named after a memorial garden built on an island in the middle of a river in Latvia. It’s a celebration of the enduring strength of human spirit, where every flower sewn and every stone laid has been donated in someone’s honour. Our family planted a tree there in 2011 in memory of my grandad Elmars and his sister Elza, so that their story will live on long after we’re gone.

#newmusic #folkmusic #acousticguitar #classicalmusic #instrumental

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🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇳🇿🇦🇺🇿🇦
Jan - March with a team of absolute beasts
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My absolute favourite fuzz pedal in a small format - the @bigfoot_engineering King Fuzz will once again be wreaking total havoc on my pedal board - deep joy!
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#fuzz #guitar #effect #handmade #bigfoot

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Studio build almost done. Let the writing begin! ( updates to follow in about year 😂) #diystudio #recordingstudios #shoegaze #postrock #postrockcommunity

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@bigfoot_engineering octopus ❤️

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08/08/25 with these lads 👇👇
🎺 @samwarnertpt
🎸 @basilepetite
🥁 @jamieehoughton

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Ever wondered what a fuzz into a cranked JTM45 sounds like? This little box from @bigfoot_engineering nails it—sag, saturation, and that vintage British snarl. Not your average fuzz. Plug in and prepare to melt.

🎸 #FuzzPedal #GuitarTone #JTM45Vibes #GuitarGear #PedalboardGoals #ToneChasers #GuitarEffects #GearDemo #FuzzLife #MarshallTone #GuitaristLife #PedalPorn

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