What is it? Electro-Harmonix The Mole Bass Booster from Nano series. Made in NYC in 2013. As the one transistor, simple boosters in the EHX family go, here we have the “Bass Booster”. Circuit has pretty much the same topology as all the other simple boosters (LPB-1 and Screaming Bird). The component values are the…
Month: January 2015
MI Audio Blues Pro V3
What is it? MI Audio Blues Pro V3. Made in australia around 2013 or so. Smaller brands with good reputation in the tweaker community? The vast number of brands vs. the reputation leave quite a few out of the equation. There are these smaller brands that may have had one of theirs as a flavour…
Digitech XDV Digiverb
What is it? Digitech XDV Digiverb from X-series. Made in china around mid-00’s. Hmm. Something familiar? Digitech X-series doesn’t fail to disappoint. At the top of the price list for the series, the reverb and the delay are usable units with decent set of features. Actually, these units take on Boss and other mass produced…
Catalinbread Merkin Fuzz
What is it? Catalinbread Merkin Fuzz. Made in USA in 2010. One of the first more “boutique” pedals i sourced and deemed as a keeper. Before getting the unit, i had already played around with the circuit as the traced schematic has been floating around for years. You should be able to find at DIY…
Digitech XSW Synth Wah
What is it? Digitech XSW Sythn Wah envelope filter from X-series. Made in china around late 00’s Deeper green on the color than the bass version, the Synth Wah Envelope Filter takes on the battle for autowahs with slight synth features for a guitar. Decent set of features will let you play around for hours….
Boss FZ-5 Fuzz
What is it? Boss FZ-5 Fuzz. Made in taiwan, may 2007. Since we are on a roll with sounds coming out of digital circuitry, here’s one to add. Some may have wondered why there isn’t a schematic or any hint of a DIY project for a pedal with this reputation. The answer is simple. The…
Digitech XBW Bass Synth Wah
What is it? Digitech XBW Bass Synth Wah, Bass envelope filter from X-series. Made in china around mid-00’s. Ok. I’ve had some of the X-series boxes lying around for quite some time. Just didn’t find it in me to open them up until now. All them sounded and felt reasonable good on initial tests, so…
Carlsbro AC1160 Wah Wah
What is it? Carlsbro AC1160 Wah Wah. Made in china around mid 00’s. A wah in a standard Cry Baby sized enclosure, but instead of the basic black, the surface is cool looking chrome. By starters, i must confess that i’m not a big user of wahs. Since i taught myself to user choruses, i…
Boss OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion
What is it? Boss OS-2 OverDrive/Distortion. Made in taiwan, january 1996. I was rather keen on trying this one out. I find the idea of OD and Dist made blendable in a single unit intriguing. This, among with other basic or classic hits as DS-1 and SD-1 are probably the cheapest and most common boss…
Rolls RFX970 Vibraflange
What is it? Rolls RFX970 Vibraflange. Made in USA, 1993. For some reason i wasn’t aware the amount of stuff in the back catalog of this company called Rolls. The reasonably priced headphone amplifiers and patch bays i did know. But then again, the main reason might also be that the bigger part of Rolls…