Way Huge - Tone Leper  [traced]

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First time that I see guts from a Tone Leper:

http://i9.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/cb/67/06e1_1.JPG
http://i11.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/cb/67/1797_1.JPG

Could somebody be so friendly and lend me $600,-- that I can buy this little single-chip wonder here?:

https://cgi.ebay.com/Way-Huge-Tone-Lepe ... dZViewItem

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Could be a variation of the Anderton Frequency Booster

http://www.diyguitarist.com/PDF_Files/FreqBooster.pdf

http://www.muzique.com/schem/ca-eq.gif
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Post by jakerandall »

what exactly does this pedal do? I understand boosts mids but what in the hell would this thing sound like?
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Sounds like a cocked wah, but the Leper is easier to handle.

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Post by sosodef »

It does look
very similiar to the
anderton circuit.

Anyone have a leper scheme?
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This would not be the first from Way Huge to use an Anderton design as a springboard.
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Post by Sari »

Thing is, why bother with finding out what it is anyways?

There are plenty of ways to get that sound from simple circuits and even using fewer parts :)
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Sari wrote:Thing is, why bother with finding out what it is anyways?

There are plenty of ways to get that sound from simple circuits and even using fewer parts :)
I agree. But the pleasure of "I have hacked a ______ pedal!"
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I don't care what the circuit is - "Tone Leper" is the best name ever!
"Analog electronics in music is dead. Analog effects pedal design is a dead art." - Fran
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To both of you: Indeed !

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Here ya go: http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/v/MrH ... ewsIndex=1

soulsonic wrote:I don't care what the circuit is - "Tone Leper" is the best name ever!
Thanks man... isn't that what it's all about anyway?

-Mr. Huge
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analogguru wrote: Could somebody be so friendly and lend me $600,-- that I can buy this little single-chip wonder here?
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Hey analogguru!
I'll send ya a PCB if ya want one... Really.
email me.
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MrHuge wrote:
soulsonic wrote:I don't care what the circuit is - "Tone Leper" is the best name ever!
Thanks man... isn't that what it's all about anyway?

-Mr. Huge
I'm totally jealous that you thought of that name first.... definitely my favorite name of any pedal ever - I mean that sincerely.

Thanks for sharing the origin too. It makes me want to build one with a switch to select several different frequency centers and call it "Super Tone Leper".
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soulsonic wrote:
MrHuge wrote:
soulsonic wrote:I don't care what the circuit is - "Tone Leper" is the best name ever!
Thanks man... isn't that what it's all about anyway?

-Mr. Huge
I'm totally jealous that you thought of that name first.... definitely my favorite name of any pedal ever - I mean that sincerely.

Thanks for sharing the origin too. It makes me want to build one with a switch to select several different frequency centers and call it "Super Tone Leper".
Thanks!
I beat ya to the Super Tone Leper...
http://www.wayhuge.com/pedals/Joesleper.jpg
I made that for QOTSA and Tool producer Joe Barresi.
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Thanks!
I beat ya to the Super Tone Leper...
http://www.wayhuge.com/pedals/Joesleper.jpg
I made that for QOTSA and Tool producer Joe Barresi.
:shock: Hey, whats this ? :shock:
This can´t be an original Way Huge in this cheap hammond-box....
It must be a bootweaker´s clone.....
Hey analogguru!
I'll send ya a PCB if ya want one... Really.
email me.
-Mr. Huge
George, thats cool, thanks for the offer.... but at the moment I am more interested in drawing schematics....

At the moment I have three unsolved mysteries which cause me sleepless nights:

The MXR M-143 Limiter (not even seen guts !), the MXR M-112 Mini Limiter
and when was the Dynacomp introduced ? before or after the Ross ?

Who was the first... who "invented" this (primitive) circuit which has been copied and cloned over and over and over and over.....

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I like the Kyuss albums he did. He did Melvins too, didn't he? Was it Stoner Witch? Damn, I love that album.

Considering who you built it for, maybe I'll call mine the "Stone Leper".
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Dooode .... you like the bands i like :shock:
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analogguru wrote:
Thanks!
I beat ya to the Super Tone Leper...
http://www.wayhuge.com/pedals/Joesleper.jpg
I made that for QOTSA and Tool producer Joe Barresi.
:shock: Hey, whats this ? :shock:
This can´t be an original Way Huge in this cheap hammond-box....
It must be a bootweaker´s clone.....
Hey analogguru!
I'll send ya a PCB if ya want one... Really.
email me.
-Mr. Huge
George, thats cool, thanks for the offer.... but at the moment I am more interested in drawing schematics....

At the moment I have three unsolved mysteries which cause me sleepless nights:

The MXR M-143 Limiter (not even seen guts !), the MXR M-112 Mini Limiter
and when was the Dynacomp introduced ? before or after the Ross ?

Who was the first... who "invented" this (primitive) circuit which has been copied and cloned over and over and over and over.....

analogguru
Yes... super boofreaker! It's a home jobber special! I made it a few years ago for my buddy Joe.
Schematics... I have tons... let me know.
M-143 is that the 4 knob red AC pedal? I have one and the schematic somewhere around here...
amazingly, I don't have anything on the M-112 mini limiter... Those little modules weren't around long.
I'm pretty sure MXR did the Dyna Comp first. I always thought that Ross (Keas) copied they're designs from MXR. The early DOD stuff is slightly different... I think they started using the NE570 first... or was it David Tarnowsky of A/DA?

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soulsonic wrote:I like the Kyuss albums he did. He did Melvins too, didn't he? Was it Stoner Witch? Damn, I love that album.

Considering who you built it for, maybe I'll call mine the "Stone Leper".
Yeah... Joe's a bad ass sound engineer and a very cool dude. He's a pedal freak too!
-Mr. Huge
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analogguru wrote:

..... the MXR M-112 Mini Limiter....

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Mike at Vintage King might have the schematic for that one. Alternately, Fletcher at Mercenary Audio may have it as well.
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