Search found 119 matches

by nightraven
26 Feb 2024, 13:27
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: Harmonic Generator
Replies: 12
Views: 2659

Re: Harmonic Generator

NME 1966111 Fuzz Mk II.png Here's the source for the phrase "Harmonic Generator" in the context of fuzz pedals -- do note the price at 12 guineas = 252 shilling Note the price on the Baldwin Burns: 10 guineas = 210 shilling Buzzaround-Melody-Maker-1.jpeg Now lets look at the price of the ...
by nightraven
22 Feb 2024, 20:54
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: Harmonic Generator
Replies: 12
Views: 2659

Re: Harmonic Generator

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Beat-Instrumental-UK.htm Gerry Pope or GP/G.P. Electronics are mentioned twice... once only in a caption in 1970: Screen Shot 2024-02-21 at 13.58.58.png Also looked 'harmonic generator' (a phrase used in the 1966 Solasound Fuzz add) 'Devon' and anything else... Som...
by nightraven
20 Feb 2024, 12:38
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: Harmonic Generator
Replies: 12
Views: 2659

Re: Harmonic Generator

there is a French band called: "moving gelatine plates", which has some images from the 1970 live that has a pedal similar to the Harmonic Generator, and I assume it is the fuzz pedal used by the bassist on the right side of the image. Looks like an Elka Dizzy Tone. You can kinda see how ...
by nightraven
21 Dec 2023, 00:01
Forum: Parts & Tools Sourcing & Trading
Topic: Looking for a toggle switch assembly Support/Bezel
Replies: 4
Views: 1590

Re: Looking for a toggle switch assembly Support/Bezel

If you could delete your post that would be great, because it has nothing to do with what I'm looking for or the help I'm asking. It has no relevance whatsoever and it's just noise, please delete your post and don't troll this thread If you don't have anything to help, it's fine, just don't write h...
by nightraven
24 Aug 2022, 19:53
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: Halifax - Treble Booster
Replies: 6
Views: 2013

Re: Halifax - Treble Booster

Do you have any info on this pedal? It looks awesome. It's a rebranded Höfner pedal. The earliest sighting of the Höfner series that I'm aware of is in this catalogue from 1967, but I guess they were probably in production for a while. I'm not sure about what the 'Halifax' company is, but I think I...
by nightraven
16 Aug 2022, 14:08
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: GM Fuzz Up FD-3B
Replies: 24
Views: 3904

Re: GM Fuzz Up FD-3B

Here are a couple of gutshots of another black Fuzz Up like Ed's. I hope the owner of this pedal won't mind me sharing the pics!

Image
Image
by nightraven
10 Feb 2022, 21:52
Forum: Davidoff Library
Topic: S. Sharpes, Fuzz Circuit, Practical Electronics, December 1970 🇬🇧
Replies: 3
Views: 824

Re: S. Sharpes, Fuzz Circuit, Practical Electronics, December 1970 🇬🇧

BMS1971 wrote: 10 Feb 2022, 15:43 Very interesting fuzz indeed. Is it the first ever hybrid SI/GE ever????
The last of the Zonk Machines (c.1968) had silicon transistors in the second position :thumbsup
by nightraven
04 Feb 2022, 22:22
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: The first Maestro Fuzztone in UK?
Replies: 5
Views: 1125

Re: The first Maestro Fuzztone in UK?

drewl wrote: 04 Feb 2022, 19:55 This "website" you mention nightraven, I assume it's about fuzz pedals?

You have a link, if you don't mind?
Thanks.
Yep! Although for now it mostly focuses on the 1960s British fuzz thing: https://fuzzboxes.org
by nightraven
26 Jan 2022, 00:41
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: The first Maestro Fuzztone in UK?
Replies: 5
Views: 1125

Re: Vick Flick, Gary Hurst and the first Maestro Fuzztone in UK

ok, thanks for chiming in! Don't even dare to trod in this field, in fact, seeing you got everything covered. But there being no info about Vick Flick on your website, I thought I'd put it up. But you're very right: you shouldn't trust something because the guy was there. We have proof that Beck us...
by nightraven
25 Jan 2022, 16:36
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: The first Maestro Fuzztone in UK?
Replies: 5
Views: 1125

Re: Vick Flick, Gary Hurst and the first Maestro Fuzztone in UK

The only problem is that Vic Flick has never owned a Tone Bender MKI, nor does he recall ever meeting Gary Hurst. Flick even still owns the FZ-1 that he used during the 1960s, which is photographed in one of his biographies. Vic Flick apparently also requested that Music Ground (AKA British Pedal Co...
by nightraven
24 Jan 2022, 14:38
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: VOX (JEN) Tone Bender - circa 1966 - 197(?) [schematic]
Replies: 60
Views: 55024

Re: VOX (JEN) Tone Bender - circa 1966 - 197(?) [schematic]

Probably was repaired sometime in the past. The RCA SK3004 is a cross to the factory transistor (and hundreds of others). I have some here, they are really crappy transistor leakage wise. Just posted those because they were such clear and beautiful gut shots... Red dot on the original transistor is...
by nightraven
27 Dec 2021, 13:41
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: Harmonic Generator
Replies: 12
Views: 2659

Re: Harmonic Generator

Very little is known because none of these pedals have actually been discovered to have survived (yet!) The "four semiconductors" described in the ad could be interpreted as 'three transistors and a diode', as on the Buzzaround. According to a guy who worked at Advision in early 1966, a Ha...
by nightraven
27 Nov 2021, 01:50
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: Carlsbro - Fuzz Box 1966(?) [schematic]
Replies: 16
Views: 13400

Re: Carlsbro - Fuzz Box 1966(?) [schematic]

Your build is ace! That blue hammertone sure looks close to the original too. My only suggestion would be to replace that horrible white washer 8)
by nightraven
26 Nov 2021, 21:27
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: Carlsbro - Fuzz Box 1966(?) [schematic]
Replies: 16
Views: 13400

Re: Carlsbro - Fuzz Box 1966(?) [schematic]

I'm glad to see interest in this obscure early fuzzbox! It's interesting that VIgeoff's has lots of output volume, because my old one doesn't get much further past unity. It's definitely one of the quieter models from the time. Here are the voltage readings that I took just now from the old original...
by nightraven
16 Nov 2021, 01:29
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: FAL - Treble booster from 1967 [schematic]
Replies: 40
Views: 26727

Re: FAL - Treble booster from 1967 [schematic]

Here's my early FAL, c.1964/65 (estimated by the dates of the various ads). I've only ever come across one other in the white case, and it had a NKT transistor of some sort (presumably like the later black models). My white one has a black glass OC44. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51540081568_...
by nightraven
07 Nov 2021, 00:44
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: Sola Sound - Tone Bender Mark I (1965) [schematic]
Replies: 343
Views: 255325

Re: Sola Sound - Tone Bender Mark I (1965) [schematic]

There's nothing to hunt -- if any of the other (surviving) dudes on the list still owned the pedals, then the pedals would've prized away by Ant Macari or me by now. It really is just a courtesy thing, because they're already aware of the mistake they made, not holding onto what are now £5000+ arti...
by nightraven
06 Nov 2021, 22:31
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: Sola Sound - Tone Bender Mark I (1965) [schematic]
Replies: 343
Views: 255325

Re: Sola Sound - Tone Bender Mark I (1965) [schematic]

There's nothing to hunt -- if any of the other (surviving) dudes on the list still owned the pedals, then the pedals would've prized away by Ant Macari or me by now. It really is just a courtesy thing, because they're already aware of the mistake they made, not holding onto what are now £5000+ artif...
by nightraven
05 Nov 2021, 15:14
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: Sola Sound - Tone Bender Mark I (1965) [schematic]
Replies: 343
Views: 255325

Re: Sola Sound - Tone Bender Mark I (1965) [schematic]

And one of the winners of that competition was tracked down more recently by Macari's, who reacquired the pedal for their own collection.

There's more general (and verifiable!) historical information about the 'MKI' here: https://fuzzboxes.org/tonebendermki
by nightraven
20 Jun 2020, 03:46
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: WEM - Project V [schematic]
Replies: 141
Views: 98153

Re: WEM - Project V [schematic]

The former owner of mine recalled using 8.4v Mallory batteries with it. The metal clasps for the batteries in this model are a size smaller than is usually fitted in early British effects (thus don't accomodate a PP4) and the fixed battery terminals screwed into the enclosure are exactly the right d...
by nightraven
31 May 2020, 14:59
Forum: Vintage Stompbox Corner ( ... - 1975)
Topic: Vox - V816 Distortion Booster: GE an SI versions! [schematic]
Replies: 16
Views: 24588

Re: Vox - V816 Distortion Booster: GE an SI versions! [schematic]

Thank you Electric Warrior for the schematic and nightraven for the photos. (And modman for starting the thread.) But i'm a little confused when comparing the EW schematic to the nr photos: - There appears to be a 100k resistor in the photos, but that value is not in the schematic. - Also, the blue...