Hi everybody, hope you´re doing well and fine!
I´ve bought Deluxe Memory Man+Hot Tubes+Micro Synth from very soon 80´s,few days ago. They were screwed together with one fourtip supply connector and someone before the former owner, which sold me this for $350, has made a lot of job and upt manz other features inside this threeboxmonster:) However, i decided to dismanle each effect and assemble with original little tranny(each effect been equipped, so do i want now). Now i do not know where to get theese trannys and what value of voltage and current or wattage, they should have. If you know these parameters, please give me a note and i´ll be very glad to put my effects to they´re former condition;-)))

Hav a nice day!

mjk

Hi there:)

it´s a little adventure for me now to investigate what all the knobs do:)) I don´t know who were the previous owners, who gave there these knobs/possibilities. I play guitar in a band around 14 years and it was always my dream to own IC Hot Tubes (i like Sonic Youth very much and Kim uses one) and also DMM which was kind a mystery for me. However, these effects were too much for my vallet and HT is hard to find. Here, in Czech Republic, the prices are pretty high opposite to US, and $250 (i recount it again from our currency to dollar and it´s $100 less i wrote in my first post, sorry for that) for HT+DMM+Microsynth is 1/3 the price!! Above that all, these effects are equipped with mentioned knobs and effects inside, which i´m exploring now. DMM has only added needle indicator(you can see the level of signal, not only LED overload). Hot Tubes was big surprise. It has added tremolo (unknown producer) and as there was space enough (little HT pcb) there is added three knob Attack Equalizer pcb. Above this, there is in HT case also compressor pcb (unknown producer, it could be Dyna Comp, not sure), but it was controlled from Microsynth two MXR knobs (you see on the left). All the pots are CTS like, all the pcbs are original, i mean not homemade. Microsynth has additional switches and a few knobs i can´t say now what hey are for:) Despite the fact i can put here only 75k images, if anyone is interested in pics i gladly send them on his email (my is mojek(et)centrum.cz).

Yes, and i forget to say, i´ve already dismantled these three effects, DMM works properly (with old supply) and the rest is under reconstruction.

Have a nice and succesfull day!

mjk

Hope this helps:

Thanks a lot thats of help. I also found this slightly clearer schematic so I’ll compare the two http://fuzzcentral.ssguitar.com/schematics/hottubes.gif
Apart from a few wires loose which will take no time to solder, my main worry I think is the power supply and transformer. It looks might crusty and might have gone so I might just rig this pedal up for a 9v power supply and adapter. I’ll try and get some photos up here but there are two cut wires coloured black and red where it appears someone may ahve already done it. I’ll go over the circuit but when i post it can someone double check my thinking? Cheers for the help.

PS. There’s one wire i’ve not figured out on the bottom right hand corner of the circuit board with a ‘d’ next to it. Is this thed direct out connector?

Its cool, after some soldering I got the beast working on a 9v supply. It sounds awesome – kind of big muff-y but with more silicon wretch to it. Only probelem I’ve experienced is horrendous background noise when the gain goes up. However this could be because a) I have the back off of the pedal or b) the 9v connector was badly/dangerously soldered. I plan to replace it with a battery snap however