What is it? Ibanez SS20 Session Man II Distortion/Delay multi-effect from Power series. Made in japan in mid 80’s. Ok. Apparently the first session man wasn’t a flop enough. Sharing parts of the design with the first Session Man “multi-effect”, this unit pairs a nasty, short delay to what appears to be the same distortion…
Author: mirosol
Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal
What is it? Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal distortion. Made in taiwan, early 1988. It has six number serial with leading zero, so that makes the unit one of the very first taiwan made HM-2s If you have not heard anything about this distortion, you must have been living under a rock. It is one of…
Colorless writings, part 11 – The Expert
What now? I felt like i needed to write this off my chest. As the title suggests i’m going to rant about these so called “experts” that think they know it all and how i think we all should use caution when we assume we have an “expert” on our hands. First of all. I’m…
Ibanez DDL10 Delay II
What is it? Ibanez DDL10 Delay II from Power series. Made in japan around mid 80’s. Power series has way too many delays. What makes this fact even more sad is that these are all interesting designs. And most of them differ from others, so it’s a painful series to collect. To begin with, Delay…
Danelectro DJ-16 Bacon ‘n’ Eggs Mini Amp/Distortion
What is it? Danelectro DJ-16 Bacon ‘n’ Eggs Mini Amp/Distortion from Dano Mini series. Made in china around mid-00’s. This was difinitely one of the Danelectro units that i didn’t have much interest towards. But as collector, i didn’t have much choice but to get one. This unit i got cheap from the local music…
Ibanez TC999 Tube King Compressor
What is it? Ibanez TC999 Tube King Compressor made in Japan in the 90’s. It’s been quite long since i got this unit and took the photos (so sorry about the quality). Got this as semi-functioning unit in a trade. Problem was with the enormous amounts of hiss and interfecence when pedal was engaded. Dirk…
Yamaha COD-100 CMOS Overdrive
What is it? Yamaha COD-100 C MOS Overdrive from Yamaha 100-series. Made in japan in mid to late 80’s. Happened to score one of these in near mint condition with an original retail box from a local guitar builder guru J. Lindén. Since i’m still fond of those coin-op design Sound Device series pedals, this…
EHX Satisfaction Fuzz
What is it? Electro Harmonix Satisfaction Fuzz from Nano series. Made in USA in early 2014. Noticed this unit’s release on the web and it seemed quite promising. Seems like the idea behind the design was to recreate that well know fuzz sound from one well known Rolling Stones track. According to the stompbox historians,…
DOD FX80B Compressor Sustainer
What is it? DOD FX80-B Compressor Sustainer from XF-series. Made in USA in 1988. This pedal had been on my want list for quite some time. The biggest reason for simply not buying it was that these units sell for ridiculous prices here where i live. The one man (wikipedia link in finnish), who is…
Korg TNB-1 Tone Booster
What is it? Korg TNB-1 Tone Booster from Series 1. Made in japan in late 80’s. Korg hasn’t produced many guitar effects, but they are well known for their high quality synthesizers and other products. In fact, the Series 1 is just a rebranded Yamaha 01 series, both manufactured by KLM. Or the Yamaha series…