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November 3, 2009 at 10:27 am #79250DiscoFreqParticipant
Arrived yesterday
November 3, 2009 at 3:18 pm #103247DarkAxelParticipantoh, it looks so beautiful
anyway i always wonder – there is just a volume pot and a tone flicker… is it enough to still produce the good old muff-izations?
i mean – is it still perfectly usable?
November 3, 2009 at 9:01 pm #103271Ned FlandersModeratorThe PCB inside these pedals is identical to the full sized versions it just turned sideways. If you want to adjust the tone and sustain you just adjust the value of a few resistors that set the tone and sustain to pre determined levels, or in the case of sustain if you want it on full you remove the resistor all together and jumper it from lug 3 to 2 where the pot would normally be.
For the tone, its good to have a 100k tone pot to hook up to it, set it how you like it and then measure the Kohms on it, then you can make fine adjustments on the tone switch once you know what value resistors to use on the switch.
These pedals came in both the 3034 transistor version and 1322 IC version.
November 3, 2009 at 10:23 pm #103278electro-melxModeratorSexy, very sexy.
November 3, 2009 at 10:26 pm #103279Fender&EHX4everModeratorCongrats, DiscoFreq!
Those reverse graphic LBMPs don’t come up very often. I’ve seen them maybe twice in the last few years. The blue is so much sexier than the brown and yellow fudgepop versions. I’m guessing that one is an IC version.
November 4, 2009 at 6:42 am #103295DiscoFreqParticipantThanks! I didn’t have time to try it or open it, I hope to have more information later
November 4, 2009 at 6:57 am #103296Mr.GrimMemberhmmm..a bit confused…
i have a bunch of older EH pedals and for that ones age, why does it look like it has a newer type knob? is it correct for that model or was it a replacement?
my Y Triggered filter, and 2 The Silencer’s i have , have the old knob thats round but turn’s almost into a chicken head type, but my newer but still a bit old Small Clone and Dr.Q have the newer knob like that one, but i thought that unit was a bit older to have the other knob.
anyhoo…..sweet find!!
November 4, 2009 at 9:16 am #103315electro-melxModeratorQuote:hmmm..a bit confused…i have a bunch of older EH pedals and for that ones age, why does it look like it has a newer type knob? is it correct for that model or was it a replacement?
my Y Triggered filter, and 2 The Silencer’s i have , have the old knob thats round but turn’s almost into a chicken head type, but my newer but still a bit old Small Clone and Dr.Q have the newer knob like that one, but i thought that unit was a bit older to have the other knob.
anyhoo…..sweet find!!
those knobs appeared on many old pedals, they aren’t ‘old and new’ types… my DRM16 had round knobs and so do many vintage pedals….
November 4, 2009 at 11:25 am #103320Fender&EHX4everModeratorQuote:those knobs appeared on many old pedals, they aren’t ‘old and new’ types]Yes, the barrel knobs were used interchangably with the pointer knobs back in the late 70s / early 80s.
My vintage PolyFlange, Bad Stone, and Deluxe Big Muff Pi all have the barrel knobs.November 4, 2009 at 2:38 pm #103324Mr.GrimMemberahh thanks for the info! i thought they clearley helped show there age, but i was wrong, that may help to explain why my holier grail has the barrel knobs and my poly chorus has the pointer, and i thought they were about the same age.
hay electro-melx….what is the 1/4 jack on the top front left of your DRM16 for?
November 4, 2009 at 3:29 pm #103328BlueSteelParticipantthat little big muff pi looks really cool.
November 4, 2009 at 3:58 pm #103336electro-melxModeratorQuote:hay electro-melx….what is the 1/4 jack on the top front left of your DRM16 for?that isn’t my pedal, I presume someone modded it so they could move the footswitch to the floor and keep the unit on a table or something like that…quite a good idea actually.
November 4, 2009 at 4:00 pm #103337electro-melxModeratorQuote:thats really cool, what year is it? i havent seen any videos over the drm16. if someones got one, please sample it. i hope ehx comes out with similar. i would really like a ehx drum machineit’s just a basic drum machine, but you can hear exactly what it sounds like here.
http://www.keyboardmuseum.com/d_machines/drm16.html
I sold mine because apart from it looking totally cool (and being ehx) I didn’t really have any use for vintage drum machine sounds….still I got nearly 4x what I paid for it.
March 8, 2014 at 8:08 pm #119751SactoGuitarMemberI finally took out my LBMP for a test spin last week. I thought I would look up some info about it…duh..never thought about coming here…
I also have the black and blue version. I bought it new…(yeah, I’m old too) and I’m sure it was in the 70s’
The “flip tone switch” either needs replacing or cleaning so I’ll give it a shot of contact cleaner.
One thing that I’ve never noticed are the two rivets that hold the battery clamp onto the battery compartment door, stick out far enough to make it wobble. I don’t ever remember having any trouble with that…Also while playing it today, I broke one of the battery wires but I know where it goes.
I have a lot of outboard gear but am not sure I want to let loose of this gem.
Anyway…I am just glad to have found another version like mine. I’ve searched on eBay, Youtube and this is the first place that I’ve seen this…
JUST FOR THE RECORD AS I AM SURE THIS HAS BEEN RESOLVED YEARS AGO, MINE HAS THE KNOB WITH THE POINTER ON IT TOO….
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