EHX - Axis  [schematic]

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Post by pf_fan »

Those pics can be compared with the schematic from GEO-Fex:
http://www.geofex.com/FX_images/eh_axis.gif
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Hey, there's some nice soldering huh? :P
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Wonder if the decaying sponge thing and the spiderwebs add some vintage tone mojo?

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krome_magnon wrote:Wonder if the decaying sponge thing and the spiderwebs add some vintage tone mojo?
Hey that's at least half of it! Once I cleaned the yellow "mystery powder" (decayed foam) out of my old Shure 55 it wasn't quite the same. :lol:

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I've built this... very much one o them in-a-godda-da-vida type fuzzes. Cool if ya wanna sound... old... :D

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I've built this...
Hmmm....really ?.....from the schematic circulating around ? then you haven´t build THIS....

Because THIS is more like the Mosrite Fuzzrite, Orpheum Fuzz, Shin-ei FY-2 (or similar units) with a 100k and 47k in the collector path of the second transistor and a 100n from the node between the resistors to GND.

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Thanks for the photos!

AG, what would be the PNP compliment to the 2N5133?

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2N 5133: 18V/50mA/200mW ß:60-1000/1mA fg>40MHz

A BC239C, a BC 550C or a 2N5088 should be usable as a replacement.

So a PNP equivalent would be for example a BC 309C or a BC 560C...

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analogguru wrote:
I've built this...
Hmmm....really ?.....from the schematic circulating around ? then you haven´t build THIS....

Because THIS is more like the Mosrite Fuzzrite, Orpheum Fuzz, Shin-ei FY-2 (or similar units) with a 100k and 47k in the collector path of the second transistor and a 100n from the node between the resistors to GND.

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Yep, it is one of those... the weird 'tone' control, etc. It wasn't the Mayer tweaked FF, rather it was the Orpheum type- AKA the 2 knob Foxey Lady.

However, I did build it from a schematic that had been floating around for a while, so it may not be exactly the same(didn't compare).

I used 2n5133, I socketed the trannies, and found that they had more grit than 2n5088,89, or mpsa18. Or maybe I fooled myself because they look so cool... :lol:

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