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…
Author: mirosol
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…
Danelectro DJ7 Milkshake Chorus
What is it? Danelectro DJ7 Milkshake chorus from Danelectro mini effects series. Not bad at all. The series is notorious for what it is – the cheapest possible way to come up with a guitar effect pedal. What Dirk Hendrik states on his site about plastic Soundtanks applies here too. I’ve never come across Dano…
Ibanez CM5 Classic Metal
What is it? Ibanez CM5 Classic Metal from Soundtank series in plastic enclosure, made in Taiwan. Condition could be better, but after swapping the switch it runs like a charm. I never thought that dents or scratches affected the sound in any way. Late 90’s date, so this unit isn’t the most valuable soundtank in…
Danelectro DJ22 Black Licorice Beyond Metal
What is it? Danelectro DJ-22 Black Licorice, Beyond Metal from Danelectro Mini effect series. While many designs in the notorious mini effects series are surprisingly good and most of the designs have some really nice tweaks or upgrades to some other, known classic circuits, this one disappoints in so many ways. If you didn’t know…
Ibanez No.95 Renometer
Just because i happen to feel like it, here’s another post for today.. What is it? Ibanez Renometer Model No. 95 EQ/Booster from mid seventies. Got this unit in a trade some time ago. In very good condition i might add. Plugged it in and had no response. Gladly, the only broken thing was one…