
Here's that incredible French project to make your own zvex Fuzz Fact. clone. And there's that Japanese page where you can still make out the values to compare them.
and I thought I had a schematic around, but will have to check and get back...
ZJ
Man, you on fire!analogguru wrote:After I have written five nonsense-posts I can place a link to the schematic.
analogguru
bajaman wrote:Hey Hey!
Isn't that a EH LPB (or screaming bird etc)bipolar boost in front of a Dallas Arbiter fuzz Face, with a slightly better output connection and a whole lot of extra controls???
And "he" says it is a completely original design on "his" website!
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Anyway, I believe that all of the people who think that the super-secret circuits that *they* have come up with (or cobbled together from other stuff)are the keys to the kingdom are a little bit deluded. And yes, zach, I do get all wound up when someone copies my words and artwork. The difference is The Rules. For better or worse, we have an arbitrary set of Rules. The Rules say, "Artwork, images, and words are protected. Ideas, unless patented, are not."
zachary and others who get voluntary non-disclosure are very lucky guys. There aren't any Rules against disclosure, but through force of personality and appeal to others' ideas of fair play, they get non-disclosure. This is good, and we're all playing nice, as we should.
In any case, I believe it would not affect Z Vex sales any for the schemos to be posted. The people who would build them are not the people who buy them now. They're different sets of people. However, most boutique pedal makers were themselves builders once, and I think that makes the separation of builders and capitalizers harder for them to see, because they're themselves one of the few people who would tinker, build, then sell. It must make it seem like everyone is like them. Zachary is not by any means the only boutique maker that this discussion applies to, just the one we see here. Many of use remember Mike Fuller's net-rage when his Fulldrive modification of the TS-9 was traced out.
So - I think the posting or not posting issue is overblown, but being an emotional issue will not go away.
R.G.
is not it more similar to tonebender mark ii?modman wrote:Wow, man you are right. Classic booster driving a classic Ge Fuzz face with extra controls. Probably is true what he said -- that he thought it up one night at the kitchen table.
I believe with this arrogant b*llsh*t-talk he will never "earn credit in heaven"... God will send him to hell....Re: EBow
Saturday, 07-Aug-1999 04:21:55
166.133.0.212 writes:
e-bows are one of those special mysterious things... they encase their circuit in some kind of pink goo, hard as a rock... the encapsulant is probably dissolvable in some carcinogen, but i can tell you first had from busting open one (and destroying it) that e-bows certainly are not simply an electromagnet. there is something special in there, something that should never be understood. i hope i never see a schematic for one.
.....
zachary vex
Re: Re: EBow
Saturday, 07-Aug-1999 15:03:16
130.161.4.7 writes:
There´s a patent available too at the IBM patent database. Zachary, don´t you look now...
Mike Burgundy
Re: Re: Re: EBow
Sunday, 08-Aug-1999 04:53:55
166.133.0.212 writes:
i don't do clones. there was a partial rip-off of the apollo fuzz-wah in my octane pedal. i discontinued it. i would highly suggest to all of you, as i have in previous posts, to investigate the unknown, as well as the already invented.reinventing does not earn you credit in heaven. turn away from all that is in the past, and stare off the precipice into the unknown, and remember this: it's a hell of a lot brighter in the unknown than in the region called "that which shall never be known." bring your own flashlights, gentlemen. and a spare set of batteries.
zachary vex
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: EBow
Sunday, 08-Aug-1999 15:19:10
166.133.0.212 writes:
oops. well, you're right... i was being a little intense there... i certainly have a huge collection of schematics that i use as a basis for problem-solving, inspiration and design. but i want to keep reminding you to do things different. many of the basic circuits that we take for granted now were partly discovered by accident. like the theremin, which started as an annoyance... an rf oscillator that changed operating frequency as you walked up to it. some russian discovered that if you had two of them, they generated beat frequencies that you could hear as a pitch that would rise and fall with distance to the body... voila!
zachary vex
ZZ top sound
Wednesday, 04-Aug-1999 16:08:36
208.144.114.4 writes:
Zachary anybody, on the ZZ Top song LOADED is that sick sound an expandora or a Fuzz Factory?
Gus
Re: ZZ top sound
Thursday, 05-Aug-1999 22:46:31
166.133.0.212 writes:
well, he has both. dunno... i don't have the record. is that the rhythmean (meen?) album? cuz if it is, my stuff isn't on there. he bought about 25 of my effects during the tour supporting that record, but he had never seen them before that. i invented the fuzz factory at 5:00 am on saturday november 25, 1995. i met him almost exactly a year later while he was on the preliminary tour (small venues) for the record and he wanted christmas presents for all the people who had helped him with the record. he had bought up all the stock at a couple of my dealers already... his secretary denise contacted me with addresses and i ended up mailing a pile of those pedals to his friends directly with little notes saying "from billy" in my handwriting. wacky. his purchase made it possible for me to escape a storefront i lived in during the middle of that subzero winter. the furnace was going out in that place and it was in the forties at night indoors. my hands were so cold that i couldn't even pick up an eighth-watt resistor. thanks, billy. saved my butt. nice guy, too. skinny as a fishing rod. i saw his eyes once through those dark sunglasses when the light was just right.... very scary. he gave me a bunch of tickets and backstage passes for the show, and we had dinner after his concert, late night pizza. he wanted me find him a perkin's, but i convinced him that pizza was a better bet... he ate most of a large by himself. consumed a dozen diet cokes. and you'd think he would have had one of those lumps like a snake gets when it eats a kitten, but nope. nothin. we talked about pickups and pedals and he had this magician with him doing card tricks at the table, a vegas guy, who had built some magic tricks for one of billy's tours years before, and we talked about the trapdoors and chutes and smoke and poor dusty screaming bloody murder every time he had to do this falling stunt. all the time billy was eyeing this girl behind the counter, she couldn't have been more than 18, a punker with a million piercings and tattoos, but nice looking. when he left the place i stayed for a bit to talk to some friends, and told her as i left that billy gibbons had remarked that she was good looking. her knees buckled... she gasped, "i thought that was him! but i... i... i already have a boyfriend!" cripes. she probably only knew him from "legs". i guess rock and roll will never die. it'll just get wrinkly. really really wrinkly.
oops, was that off topic? i hate a chatty bbs. heh.
zachary vex
the solution.
Wednesday, 04-Aug-1999 07:28:44
166.133.0.212 writes:
it's easy to see why pedals are so fun for guitarists.
they are small, underfoot (rackmount stuff has to be kicked if you are playing with both hands... as well it should be), they can be rearranged at will to create new interactions... they are easy to eliminate from your signal chain, easy to trade, sell, loan, hide, or hand to a repairperson for diagnosis (while the rest of your gear remains intact), can be tucked into a guitar case, pocket, or bag... and make your system flexible and understandable.
goshdarnit, stompboxes will always be around.
invent one today. think of the future! some kid is gonna need that thing. blow your own mind first, the rest will follow. and pray for the future of that bizarre yet eternal hope, the carbon-zinc nine-volt battery.
zachary vex
hi guru,analogguru wrote:@modman
OOhhh...I see you have a good stomach - maybe this is something of interest for you:
http://www.muzique.com/schem/Aron_archives4.html
I believe with this arrogant b*llsh*t-talk he will never "earn credit in heaven"... man will send him to hell....
analogguru
Yeah,analogguru wrote:Mr. Zvex himself.... He wanted to proof, that the cloners make better stompboxes than he himself. Have a look:
http://zvex.com/copycat/
From this I drew my first SHO-schematic, long before I found the japanese site. Thanks Zakki....
analogguru