Exar MT-02 Metal / BM-02 Bad Metal  [schematic]

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Another Exar pedals tracing, this time it is not one but two effects at once - MT-02 Metal and BM-02 Bad Metal. I traced both at once, as it appeared that they shared a single PCB.
Exar MT-02 Metal
Exar MT-02 Metal
Exar BM-02 Bad Metal
Exar BM-02 Bad Metal
Both units seem to be manufactured same year - 1995 according to dates on potentiometers. I have boxes for both of them, but Bad Metal has a user manual, an Exar products catalog, and even a receipt from the store. It was old in 1997 in Warsaw for 77 PLN.
Exar BM-02 user manual 1
Exar BM-02 user manual 1
Exar BM-02 user manual 2
Exar BM-02 user manual 2
Exar products catalog 1
Exar products catalog 1
Exar products catalog 2
Exar products catalog 2
Exar BM-02 receipt
Exar BM-02 receipt
The description of pedals in the catalog clearly says that Bad Metal is an extended version of Metal pedal with an additional frequency band controlled by High pot.
Exar Bad Metal vs Metal
Exar Bad Metal vs Metal
It wasn't a big surprise that they are sharing a single PCB, with a bunch of parts unpopulated in Metal pedal.
Exar MT-02 PCB top
Exar MT-02 PCB top
Exar MT-02 PCB bottom
Exar MT-02 PCB bottom
Exar BM-02 PCB top
Exar BM-02 PCB top
Exar BM-02 PCB bottom
Exar BM-02 PCB bottom
So the differences between the two were in the additional gyrator attached to the High pot, different pot values 22k for Metal and 10k for Bad Metal and op-amp bias resistor (470k vs. 453k, however, my guess is it was just about of availability of certain resistors values).

The differences between series 1 MT-1 Metal and MT-02 are minor changes in component values and symmetrical soft clipping instead of asymmetrical in MT-02. Attached are schematics with buffered bypass-related parts omitted.
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exar-bm-02-schematic.pdf
Exar BM-02 schematic
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exar-mt-02-schematic.pdf
Exar MT-02 schematic
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