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ProfileGearEffectsPedalboardRackmountMarch 2013Bob
BradshawCustom Audio Electronics  Builder Profile: Bob Bradshaw
Builder Profile: Bob Bradshaw  Do you still manufacture the CAA
amps? John Suhr does that—I sold the rights to him. I don’t make
amps anymore. I got into building hardware because there wasn’t
the hardware out there to do what I wanted it to do. I never
wanted to be a big hardware manufacturer, so I collaborate with
other people. I like building systems and working with the end
user.  So you are concentrating on switching systems?
Absolutely, I have a new foot controller, the RS-T, which is an
evolution of my old RS system.  Take us through the evolution.
When I started, the switches were what you call direct access,
or instant access; there weren’t any presets. That’s why my
boards were so big: you had an individual switch for each
effect. The evolution from there was being able to hit one
switch and make multiple things happen. I came up with a scheme