Not a stompbox at all, but maybe many have been hacked to be sold off for the germanium transistors. A friend bought this beauty for near to no money... and got the schematic from a document peddler on the web.
traced an Elka Dizzy Tone yesterday.
9v positive ground Garage Fuzz!
couldn't hardly find any info on the net, so thought it might be of interest..
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i couldn't find any info on the transistors either, and since the theoretical side of things is not my forte i'm even in honest doubt as to wether they're supposed to be NPN or PNP.. anybody that can fill some blanks is very welcome to do so. and since i'm new at tracing, any tips and tricks on improving...
This thing making me hard on! I have a couple of internal picts, but no shots under the board. Since it's not so complicated this should be easy to make an exact clone.
I would like to start by saying my post here is purely informational in nature. I've had the chance to actually measure the hfe of the FS36999 transistors in a Rams Head Big Muff. It needed new pots and all new electrolytic caps. Only one of the org. pots came with the pedal and it was coded for 1974. I have often wanted to measure these and I'm not saying that these are typical of every BM out there, only that this is what my particular one out of the 1000's made read on my Peak DCA55. I'm not...
this was posted in a facebook group, no info, no source.
Usual Google Fu nah work -- not even a picture of the unit. But there is a lot of info to go by... name of company, location.
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See: Roland AS-1 Sustainer
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I'm working on the 18v version supasustain and I've found that different LDR's do change the tone of this pedal quite a bit. I've got an original supasustain to compare with and I haven't been able to find an LDR that hits sweet spot like the original. Perhaps with some help we can put rest to the which LDR should I use question for once and for all? I'm willing to measure/desolder if that...
Someone gave me an old Morley Wah for repair, It's a Morley Power Wah Boost . One of those with a power cord (and a small internal transformer)
I checked it and the pedal ins't functioning (only faint sound)
Upon close inspection it seems that:
-the light bulb is blown (wich drives the LDR)
-The power chord is replaced.
-It seems that a lot of resistors have been replaced (not sure though).
If I look up the specs for the bulb, it asks for 24v, however, I measure +40 volts at the bulb. Also...
I got one of these in for repair, and noticed it was an OEM for David Wexler & Co (Wabash brand) made by EHX, but different than schematics I've seen for the EHX Mole (which was itself a reworked LPB-1 I believe.) I finally found a similar 1st generation Mole schematic over on Fuzz Central, with the Volume pot at the input rather than the output, but even that one is a bit different, so I decided to post this here for general interest. The CTS pot has a date of 15th week 1973, so it was made...
Just finished this Rickenbacker fuzz circuit found on the Transonic amps that the likes of Led Zeppelin and Steppenwolf used as a backline. Wanted to know how it sounded and didn’t have the room or the cash for a Transonic so I did the next best thing by building one. The schematic didn’t specify what the fuzz circuit used for transistors so I used 2N2222A’s since i had a bunch of those on hand needing be used up. Here’s a clip of the fuzz in action. Very ratty! Unfortunately due to the lack of...
I know, if you're going to build a reverb unit, at least build the Fender, ... or just don't use cardboard
...but still, for reference sake and mostly because you could still fall into the trap of paying 15USD for this pdf ... here it is
This is something neither Google nor I have seen before....
Even discofreq is bidding on it:
from the components used (transistor in TO-106 case, blue caps, white coloured 0,5W resistors) and the term Synthesizer I would date it to the early 70´s - neither 50´s nor 60´s.
Seems to be a simple booster (maybe with ge-diode-clipping) and a tone-control.
Better guts or any information about it would be appreciated.
Note their are three incarnations of this exact V816 Distortion Booster plugin
Red Vox version with germanium transistors
Red Vox version with silicon transistors
Silver Thomas Organ version with silicon transistors (schematic in this post)
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#153 Distortion Booster - The #153 JMI Vox Distortion Booster fuzz tone was also introduced in the November 1965 JMI Vox price list . The steel case sported a dark red painted finish. The booster utilized a battery...
This unit seems to be related to the Japanese Fuzzie - Crazy Tone , but the circuit is different.
The Crazy Face seems to be a straight up Fuzz Face clone, but in the Fuzzie - Crazy Tone, something else is going on.
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