What is it? MXR Distrotion+, block logo and no LED. Dating back all the way to 1977. Got this unit as an addon to one special deal. The deal was so good that i thought that someone was trying to to setup a oldschool swindle and rip me off of my money. Turned out that…
Month: September 2013
Danelectro DJ10 Grilled Cheese Distortion
What is it? Danelectro DJ-10 Grilled Cheese distorion. Had no information on the design whatsoever when i got this unit. Should probably have done some reading before paying 20€ for it. As distortions go, there is one sub-genre that i find no joy in playing with. This one sinks to that genre. Fixed wah distorion….
Yamaha FL10M II Flanger
What is it? Yamaha FL10M-II Flanger from the 10/Sound Device series, made in japan. Manufacture date unknown, but it seems like 80s build. Looks like a coin-op arcade machine now doesn’t it! The brand is quite a puzzle to me. Pianos, jet skis, motorcycles, guitars and network routers. Usually i wouldn’t trust a brand that…
Danelectro D4 Fab Echo
What is it? Danelectro D-4 Fab Echo. Cheapest thing made in china. Came in a trade for next to nothing. I usually have nothing againt using plastic enclosures. And as i stated on Fab Metal post, the build quality here is astonishingly bad. This particular unit doesn’t quite reach the horrifying things inside Fab Metal,…
DOD Overdrive Preamp 250 (reissue)
What is it? DOD Overdrive Preamp 250, 90’s reissue in yellow first series style enclosure. Made in china. This is one of those boxes that everyone should play with at some point in their life. If for anything else, for the feel of that heavvy duty box. The base design topology is pretty much verbatim…
Colorless writings, part 2 – The Collector
Second article in this series. I’ll be asking myself questions about collecting these damn things. Why are you collecting guitar effect pedals? Well. I guess i’ve been sort of an addict to something for all my life. I decided that ~1250 title record shelf should be enough as a personal library. To some, that’s peanuts….
Boss TR-2 Tremolo
What is it? Boss TR-2 Tremolo. Unknown manufacture date. No serial, as the label has vanished at some point alolng the way. This came to me in a trade as a defunct unit. Gladly, it was just polarity protection diode and one burned resistor. No visible damage to the board itself. Of all the tremolos…
Danelectro D3 Fab Metal
What is it? Danelectro D-3 Fab Metal. Fab series, made of plastic and probably the cheapest thing you’ll ever see. For some reason i seem to gather metal distortions even i’m not a big fan of metal music or the guitar sounds commonly affiliated with it. I do think it’s fun to play with metal…
DOD FX57 Hard Rock Distortion
What is it? DOD FX57 Hard Rock Distortion. USA made box, dating 1987. Bad year. 1987 i mean. According to DOD information heaven, America’s Pedal website, the basic idea for this design was already tried out on certain DigiTech double pedal, as well as on one Boss design. And what is this idea? To take…
Ibanez CP5 Compressor
What is it? Ibanez CP5 Compressor from Soundtank series in plastic enclosure. Serial points to somewhere around ’95-97. Date is based on a educated guess, as always with these. First off. Ibanez compressors tend to use somewhat obscure OTA replacement in a few designs. The 9-pin SIP-chip in question is BA6110, which is in fact…