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got it. pretty excellent shape, some rust on one side on the black coating stuff.
anyways, tossed a new battery in it. the volume knob seems a bit wonky, might just need to be cleaned. but gives out a bit. the fuzz knob seems to work. once activated, it seems to have almost NO bass to it. allllll treble. is this normal? im running a 70s guild s100 straight into the pedal and straight into a 70s amopeg b25. it should be crawllllllllin with balls. but i have nothing to compare it to, so i dunno how its SUPPOSED to sound.
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got it. pretty excellent shape, some rust on one side on the black coating stuff.
anyways, tossed a new battery in it. the volume knob seems a bit wonky, might just need to be cleaned. but gives out a bit. the fuzz knob seems to work. once activated, it seems to have almost NO bass to it. allllll treble. is this normal? im running a 70s guild s100 straight into the pedal and straight into a 70s amopeg b25. it should be crawllllllllin with balls. but i have nothing to compare it to, so i dunno how its SUPPOSED to sound.
Does it sound in such a manner in a shitty way, or a gnarly (as in rad) way? This forum somewhat flusters me and my stupid underdeveloped vocabulary because there’s only about 1-5 registered users on at any given time, which slows the development of learned knowledge bits. More users, just do it.
i think theres more administrators than actual members. im not sure whos who anyways. they should have more descriptive usernames…
anyways, i just think i figured it out. its just a weird pedal. hahaha. basically it seems to work like this…
it seems to create two very separate tones. a low toned drive sound and a high range fuzz. with the fuzz knob all the way to the right, youre getting the loudest volume of the drive tone. as you turn it to the left the volume of that signal drops. a little ways into turning, you hear a very quiet high toned fuzz sound start to rise in volume, eventually the low tone dissapears completely, until you get all the way to the left where the high toned fuzz is at its loudest volume. …thats what it sounds like is happening to me anyways… so you fiddle with it until you get something you like, and then adjust the volume knob till its at a matched level to the clean signal. i think it sounds best around 10pm. at 12pm it sounds sort of flubby and weird, like either tone isnt very defined at its low volume…
this is strange and foreign to me, as im used to my typical method of EH fuzz pedals of “crank all the knobs and thats how it sounds best”
i dunno, im sure someone with some proper background can shed some more light on this..
Quote:i think theres more administrators than actual members. im not sure whos who anyways. they should have more descriptive usernames…anyways, i just think i figured it out. its just a weird pedal. hahaha. basically it seems to work like this…
it seems to create two very separate tones. a low toned drive sound and a high range fuzz. with the fuzz knob all the way to the right, youre getting the loudest volume of the drive tone. as you turn it to the left the volume of that signal drops. a little ways into turning, you hear a very quiet high toned fuzz sound start to rise in volume, eventually the low tone dissapears completely, until you get all the way to the left where the high toned fuzz is at its loudest volume. …thats what it sounds like is happening to me anyways… so you fiddle with it until you get something you like, and then adjust the volume knob till its at a matched level to the clean signal. i think it sounds best around 10pm. at 12pm it sounds sort of flubby and weird, like either tone isnt very defined at its low volume…
this is strange and foreign to me, as im used to my typical method of EH fuzz pedals of “crank all the knobs and thats how it sounds best”
i dunno, im sure someone with some proper background can shed some more light on this..
The Axis is a 2 transistor fuzz but not like a Fuzz Face. It’s more like the Double Muff. The way the FUZZ control works is that it’s taking the signal from stage 1 at the extreme counter-clockwise rotation and from stage 2 at the other end. Anywhere in between is mixing the stages. Each stage runs through a fairly small value cap that drops a lot of the bass out. Just think of the FUZZ control as a blend control.
FWIW, some very early Big Muffs also had a FUZZ control instead of a SUSTAIN, although they used the standard Big Muff circuit.Quote:
because i just found one in a guitar center in FL. purchased with much quickness. all im finding is that it was the “first” EH pedal in 1968 and assorted sites list is as “impossibly rare” but i dont see any actual production numbers. anyone got any further fun trivia for me?I have a bit of history about the Axis on my Big Muff page. I believe it was 1967 that the two knob version was first sold. It layer changed to the three knob version, which was identical to the Triangle Big Muff. There was a Foxey Lady version, and supposedly, an Axis version.
since my geekness knows no bounds, i stumbled into another one of these considerably cheaper than the last and snagged it. the seller didnt seem to know what it was and could only provide a terrible photo in which the pedal looked somewhat damaged. i was hoping the bottom part of the casing would be in slightly better shape than mine and i could swap em out and have one near perfect one and one that was a little banged up, but when the package arrived and i opened it up i discovered this one was in better shape than the first. and check out the battery that was in it! when the hell do you think thats from… on top the new one is on the right, and with the innerds photo the new one is on the left.
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since my geekness knows no bounds, i stumbled into another one of these considerably cheaper than the last and snagged it. the seller didnt seem to know what it was and could only provide a terrible photo in which the pedal looked somewhat damaged. i was hoping the bottom part of the casing would be in slightly better shape than mine and i could swap em out and have one near perfect one and one that was a little banged up, but when the package arrived and i opened it up i discovered this one was in better shape than the first. and check out the battery that was in it! when the hell do you think thats from… on top the new one is on the right, and with the innerds photo the new one is on the left.
AHHHH LUCKY!!!
Nice find(s). I have a couple of Guild Foxey Ladies — one earlier Mosrite and a later EHX, which seems to be the same as your axis (axes?). That description of the fuzz control is spot on. It’s definitely a weird one.
To be clear, are these two the same inside?
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