[DrewADesign]

Tom Scholz, the guitarist for Boston with a masters in MechE from MIT, built his own effects, and much of his own recording equipment.

[mek6800d2]

I still remember a very interesting article about him in the Electronic Engineering Times back in 1998: "Boston's Scholz Engineers a Rock Dynasty"

https://web.archive.org/web/19990224204558/http://www.eetime...

"Wherever there's a microprocessor, there's trouble."

[kQq9oHeAz6wLLS]

The story of getting their first album made is epic

[HanClinto]

Link to a recommended write-up?

[kazinator]

The guitars on Def Leppard's Hysteria [1987] were supposedly direct recorded using a Rockman.