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Re: Colorsound Wah info/schematic?

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8/17/1999 2:19 PM
Gus	Re: Colorsound Wah info/schematic? A friends Colorsound sound real good to me. I thik some of the older ones are the same. Part of the cool sound is how the linkage is made a offset forked arm on the shaft of the conductive plastic pot.

8/16/1999 10:58 PM
tboy	R.G., Did you get that god-awful makeshift-looking pedal/case thing that PAiA sold with their kit, or make your own? --tboy

8/17/1999 2:22 PM
R.G.	I was 16 at the time, and had been given a dead Apollo Wah. I gutted the case and put my wah in there. Worked... kind of. I dumped the lamp/LDR of the original in favor of the pot that was already in the case. I still have the case and wah, by the way. I found it in some boxes in the attic. Ugh! Did I really do something that ugly?

8/17/1999 4:18 PM
Gus	R.G. I do not have my old PAIA catalogs. Was it an IC or transistor based wha??

8/17/1999 7:24 PM
R.G.	It was two transistors, but one was an emitter follower buffer. Otherwise it was very like the CS one. A high gain transistor stage with twin-tee feedback, and some way of adusting the gain so it didn't oscillate on its own. The resistor at the bottom of the 2-capacitor T was variable for moving the resonance. This was from the pages of Poptronics, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

8/25/1999 11:34 PM
JohnC	Dave: I can't contact you via email. All messages are returned to me with an error code. I sent you two emails in different days. As I do can receive your msgs, I could allways include a photo and some data in a web page if you like. Let me know if that is ok, and please give me a couple of days to do it. jc

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