Dan Armstrong - Yellow Humper (early version?)

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Which version is this?

https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V ... otohosting

This is an Armstrong Yellow Humper. It's just plain "Armstrong" rather than "Dan Armstrong" and made in the UK. I ask because I have a similarly marked Orange Squeezer. It has some age, predating the non-Armstrong reissues.

Does anyone know the sequence of manufacture of these boxes? Armstrong, Mutron, reissue etc?

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Professor SourTone wrote:Which version is this?

https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V ... otohosting

This is an Armstrong Yellow Humper. It's just plain "Armstrong" rather than "Dan Armstrong" and made in the UK. I ask because I have a similarly marked Orange Squeezer. It has some age, predating the non-Armstrong reissues.

Does anyone know the sequence of manufacture of these boxes? Armstrong, Mutron, reissue etc?
Maybe it is a Pre-Mutron Version.

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It seems likely, but hard to know for sure. Funny how the seller thinks it's the "British version of Mu-tron's Purple Peaker", which I also have and is a different effect.


I think I've posted this in the wrong forum - should probably be in Stuff Seen for Sale...

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I ask because I have a similarly marked Orange Squeezer. It has some age, predating the non-Armstrong reissues.
If you have one, how about guts ?
Or at least what is written on the IC ?

With that information it is much easier to date the unit.

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I've got a backlog of guts I owe you guys. It will be a few days, as my house is still full of builders...

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Professor SourTone wrote:I think I've posted this in the wrong forum - should probably be in Stuff Seen for Sale...
Don't agree - valid thread - had never even seen these plain "Armstrong" boxes before. I backed up the images for when they go offline.

good thread, really.
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Post by Professor SourTone »

Looking around, I find three UK variants (at least)

No Dan, Made in UK on the back
Dan, Made in UK on the back
Dan, made by Wareham Electronics on the back

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The Yellow Humper was a Purple Peaker revoiced for bass guitar (I asked at the DA website). ROG (aka homewrecker) already had the PP with mods, and Brian Tremblay came up with this ...
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The Yellow Humper was a Purple Peaker revoiced for bass guitar (I asked at the DA website).
That´s right.....

but the schematic shown doesn´t represent the yellow humper.

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There are some original Musictronics schematics around (never forget the index)

Yellow Humper factory schematic (1975)
Purple Peaker factory schematic (1975)

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Big question on my mind:

How does it sound?

As a bass player I would love another "specific" effect on my bass!
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Bernardduur wrote:Big question on my mind:

How does it sound?

As a bass player I would love another "specific" effect on my bass!
FSB-member "ichian" made a complete analysis (of both units) here:

http://homepage3.nifty.com/ichian/analo ... _freq3.htm

here is the babelfish-translation:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfis ... _freq3.htm

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analogguru wrote:but the schematic shown doesn´t represent the yellow humper.
I never said it was the original schematic. The original YH sounds very like the PP, so the schematic I showed was a revoice to our tastes. The basic schematic is the same, the values are different for a different response. You can use the vero layout with the original values. Or not. Your choice.

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Torchy wrote:
analogguru wrote:but the schematic shown doesn´t represent the yellow humper.
I never said it was the original schematic. The original YH sounds very like the PP, so the schematic I showed was a revoice to our tastes. The basic schematic is the same, the values are different for a different response. You can use the vero layout with the original values. Or not. Your choice.
oh, oh, oh..... sorry.....

I only wanted to avoid confusion and mentioned it.
Now we have a link to the factory schematic and everything should be ok ?

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does anyone else realize that the purple peaker and yellow humper are listed as craig anderton designs when they are dan armstrong's? is there something I missed? :scratch:

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Hi all,

Somebody still has the images for the yellow humper schematic? Geocities went down and a ton of info with it.. :(

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Is it possible for you to repost those two schematics (purple peaker and yellow humper)? Thanks!!
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