What is it? Maxon OD808 Overdrive. Reissue, made in japan around 2008. Another Tubescreamer? Well. Sort of. Apparently the design for Maxon OD808 has varied a lot over the years, depending on the “re-issue”. Some schematics available show the input and output buffers to be implemented with a LM1458 opamp instead of NPN transistors. This…
Author: mirosol
Colorless writings, part 12 – The Preference (aka Yet Another Gear Talk episode)
Are you about to tell us what pedals you use and how you chain them? Sure. I could do that. In addition, i’m asking you readers to reveal your preferences. My comments are moderated due to vast amount of spam i’m getting even with most current protection, so don’t worry if it’ll take a day…
EHX Doctor Q Nano
What is it? Electro Harmonix Doctor Q Envelope Follower from Nano series. Made in NYC, USA around late 00’s. There are a lot of recycled designs in EHX catalog. This is one of those that has been around since 70’s and later made its way to nano series in cost effective and more usable sized…
Danelectro DJ-13 French Toast Octave Distortion
What is it? Danelectro DJ-13 French Toast Octave Distortion. Made in china around mid 00’s. This one is one of the more classic designs in the series. The internet reveals that the design is 1:1 with a classic fOXX Tone Machine with added standard Dano Mini series electronic bypass switching. In other words, it is…
Barber LTD Silver
What is it? Barber Electronics LTD, Silver edition. Made in USA, 2005. Barber pedals pretty well known for high quality in their designs, as well as for their build quality. This unit is the first Barber pedal for me. Got it in a trade, played with it for a while and opened it up. Yup….
Boss SYB-3 Bass Synthesizer
What is it? Boss SYB-3 Bass Synthesizer. Made in taiwan, september 1999. This is one of the pedals that have stayed with me for a long time. Got it somewhere around 2002 and i’ve used it mostly with a guitar with occasional bass hook when recording. Due to its very complex digital design, i won’t…
Danelectro DJ-25 Blueberry Muffin Chromatic Tuner
What is it? Danelectro DJ-25 Blueberry Muffin Chromatic Tuner from Dano Mini series. Made in china around mid 00’s.. So this is the “fixed” revision of the Lemon Pitcher tuner pedal, the first one i called utter crap in the series. The colour of the unit is pretty close to DJ-11. The main visual difference…
DOD FX25B Envelope Filter
What is it? DOD FX25B Envelope Filter in “final” US DOD enclosure. Made is USA in the late 90’s. Grabbed this one off from eBay as the price was correct. I was totally expecting a V-serial unit for the price and once this thing arrived and i opened the box – no type plate sticker….
Danelectro DJ-12 Chili Dog Octave
What is it? Danelectro DJ-12 Chili Dog Octave from Dano Mini Series. Made in china around mid ’00s. For one of the coolest mini series boxes. There are quite a few that are simply 1:1 ripoffs of higher end brand designs. It seems that mainly Boss and MXR have been hit hard by the Dano…
Marshall JH-1 The Jackhammer
What is it? Marshall JH-1 Jackhammer Overdrive/Distortion. Made in china in mid 00’s. We’ve seen a few of these units that combine two popular dirt effects – the overdrive and the distortion. So far i haven’t come across an unit that would excel in both. First analogue would be Boss OS-2, which is terrific distortion,…