hey guys,
First post.
Here's a Garnet Whirly-Gig. It is a Leslie sim type effect with a beautiful uneven, galloping sweep to it's lfo and no controls other than a speed footswitch. For some reason they never printer Garnet on these things. As a Canadian I felt it's my duty to share this.
I can take close ups of any area required and provide cap values etc if required.
Here it is
Hi folks
I was literally blown away when a customer dropped by with one of these pedals today - he wanted me to fit a dc input socket, which i did AFTER first taking some pictures. Mike Lewis and Bill LeGros built a few of these in the early seventies and I have not seen one for many years. It still works fine too!!!
Note the use of foam plastic to wrap the circuit board and prevent it shorting out against the metal case.
Some of the phase tone experts may know what it was ca clone of - then...
I have one of these that does not work. All the chips (14 pins) on the board are sanded off, they must have known about the FSB forum even 30 years ago.
No they must have known about the King of solder-jockeys before, because here at FSB-forum sanded chips are not really causing a big problem..... We even have op-amp testers, digital chip testers etc. and a lot of brain power since decades in our arsenal .
it was made in CA, not the smaller...
many many years ago, before shin ei (?) before honey, before univox, there was a bizzarre precursor to the univbe called the nomad verberola. rarer than hen's teeth. think a reslie tone with a switch for double/half speed modulation, much deeper detune, and an added tremolo mode... well, that's the verberola. i recently repaired one for a friend, required internal microsurgery as i had to repair a broken slide pot, with one wiper snapped off (cleaned and soldered back together) and the carbon...
Haven't seen this one around, also, there's not much information on the web. A friend got one used in really good shape, despite being such an old unit.
Anyway, my friend let me take a look inside, I traced it and made a layout, nobody has verified none of them, but I'm pretty sure both are allright.
I guess it's a silicon based fuzz, because I don't know the transistors and don't know the clipping diodes neither. The tone control is really weird.
I have been lurking around this forum for too long without contributing. Thought I would post gutshots and part refs for my mid 70s tonebender. I haven't seen any schems of this version using 4 x BC184 transistors so hopefully it is of use to someone. Much thicker 'brickwall' style fuzz than the 3 transistor version, rakes of volume also.
All metal box caps say '250/u1' (u is backwards like mf :wink: ), there is one metal box near the bottom left that is smaller and this says...
I got this pedal cheap on ebay as it was broken and didn't work. On the inside still the same guts as before, just a lot of tape to keep it from short circuiting and some enlarged wires. I cleaned it up and voila, it works again like a charm.
When I opened it up first the unit did not have an inductor; it still doens't have one. It is a inductorless wah.
The fuzz part sounds like my old clone..... this unit has some 2N5133's in it that makes some real nice tones! Dig it on bass too!
The wah...
Does anyone have a schematic for this beast (or access to one)? I have been looking for it for the last 7-8 years, but was never able to find it.
This pedal was frequently used by Brian May in his early years.
The pedal is currently being reissued, but the price is a bit steep (>$300!).
I am looking at an Orpheum fuzz, which I have read is a very raunchy one. I need a fuzz with a very focused, tight, piercing, buzz-saw sound (think Psychotic Reaction). I am working on a new cd and it has some psychedelic stuff on there, well I have always written in a heavy psychedelic way (think Iron butterfly, Blue Cheer) but this time I want the buzz-saw sound. Currently my nastiest fuzz is an Ace Tone FM-2. I think that the space between the words Ace and Tone must have been a typo. And...
A friend brought me an old wah that he wanted me to repair (which I have done)
It's a inductorless wah with only two transistors and very few components.
It sounds pretty decent, so I decided to trace it, and this is the result so far...
I have put it up on the breadboard with general-purpose transistors matching the HFE of the originals, but it's not quite working 100%
The output is very low and the pot/filter works but it doesn't sounds very resonant/wah-ish like the...
I'm a huge James Burton fan and have been ever since I first heard him on Rick Nelson & Elvis's recordings from 1969-1977. There's one single pedal that has always....always intrigued me and that is the SolaSound ColorSound Wah/Fuzz/Volume pedal he used in 1973 - most notably during the rehearsal & main show for Aloha From Hawaii on January 12 & 14, 1973.
Recently, I ran across an orange SolaSound ColorSound Wah/Fuzz/Volume pedal on Ebay just exactly like what James used but, unfortunately, I...
Someone seems to have lost the original switch, which I believe originally plugs into the multipin socket (now disconnected), and used the spare hole to put a stereo jack in. Works fine, but now that I have an optipot I can't use it! The multipin seems to have suspiciously few lugs internally, so unclear what goes where. Also, I think there is some difference in switch functionality between the two, but I'm not sure what it is. Anyways, here's some pix. It sounds very cool as is.
This is supposed to be the first version.
Electro Harmonix - Small Stone USA Version 1
The first version of the Small Stone was made somewhere between 1974-1978 and it used OTAs labelled EH1048. (These were house labeled versions of the CA3094AE OTA). Already from its first appearance the Small Stone nailed that unique swirl and depth.
The oldest versions of this unit (pot dates to 1975) have had OTAS in octopod casings.
I found some nice images of this pedal on Ebay so I figured I would upload them. The pedal was just so CLEAN that I couldn't help but grab all the images and post them.
Have owned this thing for years... love the sound. Always thought it was a fuzz so when googling I could never find anything... but a search for Guyatone Sustainer .... and all was revealed.
I will definately post some guts this weekend. Much easier to pull apart than the Companion Psychedelic Machine I was trying to get shots of.
It's shocking, but a for jumbo didn't yield any results except mentions in threads about other pedals...so I thought I'd start a dedicated Jumbo Tonebender thread. (AG - FEEL FREE TO MERGE THIS THREAD IF YOU SEE FIT...)
Found this while surfing the web, never heard of this and it looks interesting. It looks like a somewhat different design (not a fuzz face or tonebender at least) thought someone here might be interested. Trying to contribute something here since i lurk all the time. I hope someone can benefit from this.
I am going to build the 18V power boost with b169c. see attachment I have read that this circuit works best when the collectors are biased to 9V ( sound right??)
my question is which resistors would you tweak to bias the collector voltage for t2 and t3? (r6 and r 14) sorry its been a while since I too a electronics class
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