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Re: 2 Knob Bender
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 5/11/2000 5:12 PM |
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aron |
Re: 2 Knob Bender The schematic I mention is from a 1968 model. This model was made by Sola Colorsound. I would imagine they are one and the same. |
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| 5/11/2000 8:27 PM |
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| Tobias Karlsson |
You mean the “Sola Sound Tone Bender with my modifications” at your sound page, right? I reminds of it but I guess the hole setup is so different. I have to mention that nowadays I usually only playing my “strats” and I only like my Fuzz Faze and Sola Sound ToneBender with them and my Marshall Super Leads (early 70’s). When I play my fuzzes through humbuckers they’re both have to much over the top fuzz and sounds muddy. And when I play them at the amps at my work they sound like shit (Fender, Valvestates, Peavey Classic etc.) oh, I better add, IN MY EARS. But when I use my strats and turn the output of the fuzzes up so much that the preamp tubes in my Super Lead just starts to compress, and then turn the amps volumepot up so the powertubes do the same thing, the sound is just how I want it, (BUT usually to loud). To bad I don’t like Marshalls with Master volume… My F.F and T.B is also tweaked a little bit to cut some lows and add a little bit presence. Of course, this is just what I like and it’s definitely not some kind of rule for a good sound, AND it’s MORE than possible that I get a pleasant surprise if I get the time to build your (Arons) “Rocket” or Gus “3 Transistor Fuzz”!! Can someone verify if I got a wide imagination or if this could be true. I think that these fuzzes (my FF and TB) sounds better after about an our when the power been on to them, just like my own amps. It has to be my imagination, right? Tobias | |
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| 5/11/2000 8:37 PM |
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| aron |
Oops. No, I meant the 2 knob fuzz which is the Marshall Supa Fuzz: http://www.firebottle.net/stompbox/mp3/supafuzz.mp3 >My F.F and T.B is also tweaked a little bit to cut some lows and add a little bit presence. That's what I did with the Hornet. >I think that these fuzzes (my FF and TB) sounds better after about an our when the power been on to them Maybe. Germaniums sound different when the temperature changes.... Maybe that's it.... |
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| 5/11/2000 9:02 PM |
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| Tobias Karlsson |
No, I dont think it sounds similar to my setup with my Fuzz Faze and SS Tone Bender. Mine has much more "punch" in the mids and "bite" instead of "fizz", well it's hard to explain! You got a cool sound just at the beginning of the "clip", a little bit bluesy! Tobias | |
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| 5/11/2000 3:33 PM |
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| Gus |
gentlepeople Some of the points raised in this thread are why I made the 3tran fuzz posted at Aron's site. Aron turned it into the rocket another variation. The 3trans bias adjust is there to give you gated to smooth to other type of gated there is also a high end roll off. The 10k in series with the cap to the fuzz stage is a partal sim of a pickup should be a inductor of about 2.5H and about 5 to 10k resistance(the pickup to the input of the effect is part of one off the feedback loops in a stock 2 tran fuzz)there is also a high end roll off (lowpass filter) built in to the output(1k .01uf) to take the Si edge off. All the resistor were pots once the fixed values are the ones I keep finding I liked. As you can see it nothing new or original just a tweeked Si to sound smoother with a buffered input to play better with other effects. it is also more temp stable than a stock Ge circuit. |
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| 5/10/2000 8:39 PM |
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| synthbum |
Well... I thought I'd seen many of those schematix elsewhere. Anyway, not at all interested in that TS808 stuff. Just hoping and still asking:
Thanks up front! synthbum |
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| 5/10/2000 9:04 PM |
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| aron |
Synthbum, Check out my post. I list all three circuits. Let me know what you think. Aron |
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