What is it? Danelectro DJ5 Tuna Melt Tremolo from Dano’s mini effects series. This is one of those that should not be overlooked no matter what opinion you may have about the box/jacks/switch/whatever. Definitely one of the best and most desired boxes in the mini series in addition to Chicken Salad and a few other…
Author: mirosol
Danelectro DJ-24 French Fries Autowah
What is it? Danelectro DJ-24 French Fries Autowah. Mini series design in a standard plastic mini box. As the designs in the mini series go, this is one of the ones you probably want. At heart, it is basically a EHX Doctor Q, with a tweak for smoother sounding envelope. Where the original Dr.Q may…
Colorless writings, part 1 – The Dark Ages
After each 10 or so pedal posts, i might try writing something different on the subject for a change. On this series of articles, i ask myself questions about some stuff i’ve been thinking. All these notes are based on my personal heresy and opinions. My articles should never be looked as hard facts. I…
Ibanez AF9 Auto Filter
What is it? Ibanez AF9 Autofilter. Made in japan in early 1980’s. Even though i don’t see myself as a huge fan of autowah/envelope filter genre, i happen tohave a few specimens. The way envelope filters, aka autowahs usually work, is that there’s an driver part that triggers the filter when certain input level threshold…
Digitech DDM Death Metal
What is it? Digitech Death Metal distortion. Modern issue from Digitech Distortion series. Built around 2009. Why would i post this effect? To be honest, i acquired it just because i was curious. Didn’t check any demos or read any reviews before i got it. Didn’t even think about getting one, but as the opportunity…
Danelectro DJ8 Hash Browns Flanger
Let’s post up two flanger boxes today…. What is it? Danelectro DJ8 Hash Browns flanger. This series of mini effects was made from around ’99 to 2007 or so. Not much dating information around, maybe because of the super low price and massive volumes manufactured in china. First, i’ve been surprised about Modtone Minimod Flanger…
Ibanez FL5 Flanger
What is it? Ibanez FL5 Flanger from Soundtank series in plastic enclosure, made in Taiwan, late in the 90’s. So it’s pertty new unit in my collection with only about 15 yesars of age. According to notes from (one of my heroes,) Dirk Hendrik the circuit is pretty much verbatim clone of Ibanez/Maxon FL9, with delay…
Ibanez LF7 Lo-Fi
What is it? Ibanez LF7 Lo Fi from Tonelok/7-series. Apparently made in the year 2000, as the enclosure has the date 1/2000 stamped on the inside. The board itself has a lot of components left out, so it seems that the same board may be utilized in other designs of the series too. I think…
Ibanez FZ5 60’s Fuzz
What is it? Ibanez FZ5 60’s Fuzz from Soundtank series in plastic enclosure, made in Taiwan. Manufacture date unknown due to missing label that’s been ripped off by velcro at some point before this landed to my care (Grrrrr!). Techically pretty close to Ibanez OD850 and OD9 (which are damn close to BMP), with some…
Ibanez CR5 Crunchy Rhythm
What is it? Ibanez CR5 Crunchy Rhythm from Soundtank series in metal enclosure, made in Taiwan around 1989-90. It is a design that differs from usual TS and/or Voodoo Labs overdrive topology. Boosting, bluesy overdrive with discrete differential pair to determine which parts of the signal get to Si diode hard clipping before the tone…