I want to take a moment and reflect on my years at RonSound effects.  I started doing this about 17 years ago, back in a time when custom and boutique pedal builders were practically unheard of.  My vision at the time was to make available, at a more reasonable cost, repros of some of the most popular and hard-to-find effects.  Starting out with little more than corner of the bedroom I shared with my wife, I built RonSound to the slightly larger version it is today, housed in my garage.  It's always been just me doing all the work with my wife helping out with labeling and graphics on older painted units.  I did it this way because I cared about every pedal that went out the door and couldn't see myself having to worry over a unit someone else had built, wondering if it was going to be OK when it reached it's new home.  Today, RonSound faces a bigger challenge.  Pedal builders are crawling out of the woodwork everyday offering their own spin on pedals and, despite prices that often greatly exceed mine, enjoying better sales than I ever did.  When I find out "X" is charging $300 (or more) for what turns out to be a slightly modified copy of a Tube Screamer or Marshall Guv'nor, and getting it, my heart sinks just a bit more.  Some of you probably know about a recent debacle, where a "builder" bought cheap pedals from China, modded the circuit board slightly, repainted the housings, then sold them for much more than the original price while claiming to have built it by hand in their basement.  Again, enough people bought into to make it a worthwhile endeavor until the truth came out.  I have never hid the origins of any RonSound pedal nor made any claims as to any of them being my original circuit design.