A blog about vintage amps, pedals and their working. For over 20 years I’ve been dissecting amps, pedals and guitars to see what makes them tick! And I love a good mystery! So dive together with me in the information I can dig up from various places (both digital and analog) to tell you more on the units I work on. My main addictions are Fuzz pedals, Chorus pedals and 50’s amps. And the rarer, the better
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Articles of interest
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Unknown pedal – Fuzz? Overdrive? Boost?
Sometimes I get these pedals in that are clearly made by someone in a DIY fashion. No markings, no owner, just someone that liked to tinker with resistors and capacitors. Now this one came…
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Goodrich – LDR-2 volume pedal
I got this pedal in for some TLC. It need to run on a normal guitar effects pedal power supply; let slide it away. Goodrich is a USA based company that is most famous…
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Emma – DiscumBOBulator V1
I simply love envelope filters. The way they respond, just stand out in the mix and deal with dynamics, I think it’s awesome. The Emma DiscumBOBulator is one of those favourite envelope filters I…
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Menatone – Blue collar (version 3 / ’04)
I got this 2004 Menatone The Blue Collar in for some repairs. The unit sounds off with a slight misbiased sound that doesn’t respond to any controls. Menatone started in 1996 with building pedals.…
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GLX – DS-100 Distortion; a simple MT-2 (also Boston / Beta Aivin, etc)
Sometimes you get some pedals you didn’t ask for. This GLX is one of these pedals that I got in a package deal with other pedals. I was intrigued: it looks like a Boss…
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Gibson – GA-30 amp
I love old amps! And this amp is pretty old! Gibson, you know, that brand that produces a lot of great guitars and basses, also produced amps. In the 1940’s they produced beautiful amps…
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MXR – M-120 Envelope filter
I recently got this unit in for some TLC. As a bass player I adore envelope filters. On my own pedalboard an Emma DiscumBOBulator is always present and I was perplexed when I learned…
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Morley – Pro Phaser
This Morley Tel-Ray Pro Phaser (PFA) came to my door for some TLC. I love these old Morley products. The Tel-Ray name was given to a specific part of the Morley product line as…
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Boss – ME-10; a tale of many caps
This pedal came in as it wasn’t producing any sounds. It is a common problem with this pedal. This pedal was released in 1992 and run for only two years. It followed the ME-5…
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