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Re: Which Tonebender did Page and Beck use?

9/26/2004 11:28 AM
Stuart	Re: Which Tonebender did Page and Beck use? I don't use that ISP anymore, so I lost the webspace. Temporary home is here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.castledine/greenfuz/ Beck used a MkI Tone Bender on the earlier Yardbirds recordings, but you won't find a schematic for that. If you build the three transistor MkII you'll be closer than with anything else. The later ('69-'70) Page/Beck fuzz sounds to me more like the three-knob circuit, but only they know for sure. They both had Roger Mayer fuzz boxes as well, and I've seen a few oddball pedals made by Sola Sound, so they might have had fuzz circuits that weren't made available commercially.

9/26/2004 11:28 AM

Stuart

Re: Which Tonebender did Page and Beck use?

I don't use that ISP anymore, so I lost the webspace. Temporary home is here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.castledine/greenfuz/

Beck used a MkI Tone Bender on the earlier Yardbirds recordings, but you won't find a schematic for that. If you build the three transistor MkII you'll be closer than with anything else.

The later ('69-'70) Page/Beck fuzz sounds to me more like the three-knob circuit, but only they know for sure. They both had Roger Mayer fuzz boxes as well, and I've seen a few oddball pedals made by Sola Sound, so they might have had fuzz circuits that weren't made available commercially.

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Gord I've built both a few times and I t... -- 9/28/2004 12:55 AM