For a collector like me, interesting pedal, but that price!
I one 18 Colorsound / Sola pedals and have sold twice that, I have never seen transistor markings hidden before. Maybe because this is a prototype or maybe other reasons?
Sola Sound - Tone Bender Mark III: ebay madness (+ gutshots)
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alteredsounds
- Resistor Ronker
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NOS-Sola-Sound-To ... dZViewItem
For a collector like me, interesting pedal, but that price!
I one 18 Colorsound / Sola pedals and have sold twice that, I have never seen transistor markings hidden before. Maybe because this is a prototype or maybe other reasons?
For a collector like me, interesting pedal, but that price!
I one 18 Colorsound / Sola pedals and have sold twice that, I have never seen transistor markings hidden before. Maybe because this is a prototype or maybe other reasons?
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analogguru
- Old Solderhand
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I´ve seen that, but I didn´t look at the price before.....
The funny thing is also the "story" behind it. I highly doubt, that it could be really dated to end 67 or early 68.
It is not a prototype, cause the pcb used is the same as used in the Solasound Tonebender Mark IV - I have guts from 3 different Mark IV´s.
I have also guts from 2 different Vox Mk III´s with these potis, so altogether already 5 units which must have been sold.
Interesting the "comparison" - In fact there have been four different MkIII´s:
- The real "prototype" as shown below, containing a standard 3knob-TB-pcb.
- the units containing the pcb in doubt.
- the same units containing a standard 3-knob-TB-pcb
- and last but not least the MkIII´s containing a Colorsound Jumbo-TB pcb.
On the last the printing "Tonebender MkIII" was below the foootswitch.
Concerning the transistors:
I have two other guts from MkIII´s and MkIV´s who use these (unmarked?) TO-5 transistors, but without the color-dot on the top.
Anyway, I even wouldn´t spent $600,-- for any MkIII or MkIV unit.
analogguru
The funny thing is also the "story" behind it. I highly doubt, that it could be really dated to end 67 or early 68.
It is not a prototype, cause the pcb used is the same as used in the Solasound Tonebender Mark IV - I have guts from 3 different Mark IV´s.
I have also guts from 2 different Vox Mk III´s with these potis, so altogether already 5 units which must have been sold.
Interesting the "comparison" - In fact there have been four different MkIII´s:
- The real "prototype" as shown below, containing a standard 3knob-TB-pcb.
- the units containing the pcb in doubt.
- the same units containing a standard 3-knob-TB-pcb
- and last but not least the MkIII´s containing a Colorsound Jumbo-TB pcb.
On the last the printing "Tonebender MkIII" was below the foootswitch.
Concerning the transistors:
I have two other guts from MkIII´s and MkIV´s who use these (unmarked?) TO-5 transistors, but without the color-dot on the top.
Anyway, I even wouldn´t spent $600,-- for any MkIII or MkIV unit.
analogguru
There´s a sucker born every minute - and too many of them end up in the bootweak pedal biz.
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alteredsounds
- Resistor Ronker
Interesting facts ag, i did doubt the ebay information had any fact to it. Is that yours in the photo?
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analogguru
- Old Solderhand
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Sadly not... If it would, maybe I could sell it for $6.000,--alteredsounds wrote:Interesting facts ag, i did doubt the ebay information had any fact to it. Is that yours in the photo?
No I found this photos somewhere on the web (probably evilbay) several years ago....
Here is how it looks inside:
There´s a sucker born every minute - and too many of them end up in the bootweak pedal biz.
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MoreCowbell
- Transistor Tuner
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All the other stuff aside....
He keeps saying it's "New Old Stock"...how can it possibly be NOS if he, self admittedly, has USED the unit ?
I couldn't sell NOS Mustard caps if they had been soldered in to a circuit and used "3 or 4 times"...they wouldn't be NOS. NOS means "NEW, NEVER USED". I could justify him saying "mint condition", or "as close to NOS as you'll find", but saying it IS "NOS" is a flat out lie.
Pretty unit though...not $6k pretty...hell, not $600 pretty (to me)...but I'm sure that somebody is dumb enough to give him $4k - $6k for it.
He keeps saying it's "New Old Stock"...how can it possibly be NOS if he, self admittedly, has USED the unit ?
I couldn't sell NOS Mustard caps if they had been soldered in to a circuit and used "3 or 4 times"...they wouldn't be NOS. NOS means "NEW, NEVER USED". I could justify him saying "mint condition", or "as close to NOS as you'll find", but saying it IS "NOS" is a flat out lie.
Pretty unit though...not $6k pretty...hell, not $600 pretty (to me)...but I'm sure that somebody is dumb enough to give him $4k - $6k for it.
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Professor SourTone
- Solder Soldier
$600 would be about right. For $6k, more than 20 people need to know how rare it is.
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marmaliser
- Breadboard Brother
Picked one of these up last week for £85 
From 1974 , rough but works perfect
Here are the pics from ebay. The ac128 is not original and does anyone know why the resistor would be jumpered ?
From 1974 , rough but works perfectHere are the pics from ebay. The ac128 is not original and does anyone know why the resistor would be jumpered ?
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Presumably to increase output volume. See the thread about the B&M Fuzz which is a similar circuit:marmaliser wrote:does anyone know why the resistor would be jumpered ?
https://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic ... 19&t=7055
sonicvi wrote:A word of advice, that 220K resistor in series with the volume pot is completely useless and lowers the output quite a bit. Jumper it and you'll get more volume, otherwise you barely get unity with the volume pot maxed.