What is it? Ibanez PT999 Phase Tone. Made in japan by Maxon around 1976. These units apparently are not as rare as i thought. I suspect that the number manufactured was very high as there seems to be several units available in shops and auction sites even right now. Apparently the units sold very well…
Month: February 2015
Seymour Duncan SFX-02 Tweak Fuzz
What is it? Seymour Duncan SFX-02 Tweak Fuzz from the first Seymour Duncan effect series. Possibly from mid 00’s. The first series of stompboxes from highly regarded pickup manufacturer? Sure i wanted to see what was going on for myself. I believe the number of manufactured units is rather high and since most of the…
EHX Big Muff Pi Nano
What is it? Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi Nano. Made in NYC, 2013. Ok. This took them long enough. The massive Big Muff enclosure is sort of an visual trade mark for this obviously classic fuzz/distortion, but there’s been Little Big Muff out for a long time. Little BMP being the same circuit, but just in…
Digitech XTF Turbo Flanger
What is it? Digitech XTF Turbo Flanger from X-series. Made in china around late 00’s. Saw this going for a decent price and just couldn’t let it go. Played around with it for a while and i was ready to call it before opening the bottom. Not an exception to the rule, but simply yet…
DiMavery EPDL-50 Delay
What is it? DiMavery EPDL-50 Delay. Made by Daphon in china around late 00’s or early 10’s. I was on the hunt for the original Daphon branded E20DL as it’s apparently the same circuit as for Daphon E10AD. The reason for hunting down a low end brand’s delay unit? The schematic for E10AD on Dirk…
Marshall RF-1 Reflector
What is it? Marshall FR-1 Reflector Reverb. Made in china around early 00’s. Where all the dirt pedals in small metal series have board designs of their own, the digital ones are, well. Exactly what you’d expect from them. This fact makes the digital designs in this series the most dullest boards. This doesn’t mean…
Digitech XTD Tone Driver
What is it? Digitech XTD Tone Driver Overdrive from X-series. Made in china around late 00’s. Usable and quite frankly, decent sounding cheaper drive pedals are pretty common nowadays. This is one of those that you can score as used for peanuts. Or next to peanuts at least. Got the unit for cheap and after…
EHX Hot Tubes Nano
What is it? Electro-Harmonix Hot Tubes Nano. Made in NYC, 2013. Some time ago i stumbled on to a schematic of this CD4049 hex inverter based OD/Dist unit. Played around with the design and noticed it had some real potential. There are numerous drive designs with hex inverters on the wild and while the CD4049…
Marshall EH-1 Echohead
What is it? Marshall EH-1 Ehcohead delay/echo. Made in china around early 00’s. My relationship with these effects isn’t anything too special. I just simply like them for their heavy construction and fine tones. Most of the units in this series (which i like to call “small metal series”) are relatively low on their price…
Digitech XHR Hot Rod
What is it? Digitech XHR Hot Rod Rock Distortion from X-series. Made in china around mid 00’s. It says Rock Distortion on the top. What to expect from its tone wasn’t anything short of obvious. But. The disappointments of shared digital board designs for the several other units of the series made me rather weary…