The info is from Don Mare, pickup maker, musician.
Link to thread http://www.tdpri.com/forum/just-pickups ... -tele.html
The thread title is "Closest Pickups to Jimmy Pages tele"
It made me interested in building the FZ-1, when I have a bit of time.don't fall in the "tone Bender" trap..
What was in a TB box was not at all a TB..
Jimmy liked that Tone Bender box best and emptied it out - then put the Rodger Mayer FZ-1 clone into the TB box himself - Jimmy did not really like the TB and was more used to older Gibson type FZ-1 Maestro . so he had Rodger make him a modded version and then re-boxed it into the TB housing.
and Jimmy has always remained pretty much secretive when hes asked about his pedal of that early era -- even thru all these years...
Rodger Mayer - pretty much copied the Maestro FZ-1 ( not FZ1-a)
but he used Mullard OC81 Transistors and Wima Caps.. and other English parts.
his only mod was changing the value of the pots - I have the schematic here
from a Pedal that was made by Rodger Mayer at the time -- there is only about 8 of these pedals ever made - Jimmy Page has one - Jeff Beck got one and a few other big players of the time - the one we have access to here came from a collector who was retiring - the pedal has offers of $3,800.00 on it .
I am friends with the owner who has managed to collect all the correct electronic parts - Mullards - Wimas.. and some others... we have sent the parts to Nick Greer Amplification's.. ( Big Zep Fan) to have Nick assemble and test run the unit for any bugs.. - the pedal as of a few days ago is just now ready to ship to me here - and so it should be here soon - we will test it with the real one!! and see just how close we came???? - if its perfect - then the owner is going to have one more made and the go ahead and sell the original .
basically if you want Jimmy's pedal have a FZ-1 Clone made with the pots swapped to a 1k linear for the fuzz pot -- and a 250k audio on the volume
and that should be very close..
you'll also need a wha with the sweep that the original JEN had like Jimmys JEN wha-wha
the pickup was 5.7k on the recording of lz1 - then rewound to 6.6k for live use as jimmy needed more out of it for the live zep stuff..
the amp was the older 58-59 1624T not the 1961 - Jimmys broke up more - due to what we think is smaller trannys on the 59's -- Jimmy bought it while in a store in england during 1961 but it was no way a 61... it took a while to get product over there by boat ~~~~ and then a while to display it and then actually sell it -- here at home I've seen the same guitars and amps in music stores sold as new that have been in the store up to 6 years that i tracked..
for a close sound minus the wha a modern day Rodger Mayer Mongoose works well with a Fuzz Face mod On a few caps -- the sample sound clip I made at my site is that modded Mongoose pedal thru my 55 Deluxe -
Here's a link to a FZ-1 schematic over at Schematic Heaven
http://www.schematicheaven.com/effects/ ... a_fuzz.pdf