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  • July 13, 2009 at 9:32 pm in reply to: Old Ram’s Head Muff Needs New Enclosure #99358
    devnulljp
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    Buy a NTC RI on ebay for $50 and gut it? Re-sell the guts on ebay for $25…?
    Or keep your eyes open for an old Frequency Analyzer / Black Finger / Bad Stone and gut the box (which would be a shame to do though unless the innards were damaged).
    How about just sticking it in a Hammond box?

    July 12, 2009 at 6:55 am in reply to: What is that Bass Jack Conte is using? #99243
    devnulljp
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    While I don’t know for sure, This might help:

    jckbass1.jpg

    July 11, 2009 at 1:40 am in reply to: Q-TRON comparison – please help #99204
    devnulljp
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    Quote:
    In the cases of the Worm and Muffs, the XO pedals are improvements over the big counterparts.

    Wait….this
    9817_md.jpg

    is an improvement over this

    eh_bigmuffpi-triangle_002.jpg

    or this

    eh_bigmuff-original-77_001.jpg

    or this

    eh_bigmuffpi-original_002.jpg

    ???

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    July 10, 2009 at 6:58 pm in reply to: United Breaks Guitars #99181
    devnulljp
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    Air Canada staff jimmied the lock on my guitar case and probably had a go, cracking the top in the process.
    Can I say BASTARDS! here?

    July 10, 2009 at 5:51 am in reply to: Vintage little big muff #99163
    devnulljp
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    I think the pot values for a BMP are: Volume, 100k; Tone, 10k, Sustain, 10k. All linear
    Anyone care to verify/refute/provide more detail?
    So, I’d try a couple of 10k trimmers and see how you go.
    In the above pic, both pads are jumpered with 10k resistors, so you could just try different resistor values too in that range.
    What are you trying to do? Less treble / less sustain?
    There’s good info on Big Muff mods here: “http://rkerkhof.ruhosting.nl/Taas/Mods/Big Muff.htm”
    (you’ll have to cut n paste that URL, this board doesn’t handle spaces very well)

    July 10, 2009 at 4:33 am in reply to: Vintage little big muff #99161
    devnulljp
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    Not a whole pot, just a little trimpot. or you could just experiment with different resistor values to mimic the pot at different settings, but a trimpot will let you solder once and then fiddle with it til you get it sounding the way you want it.

    Here’s a pic of a trimpot I put in my 3034 BMP as a noise gate (you’re supposed to remove that white thing once it’s set) so you can see what I’m talking about.

    [IMG]”http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq123/devnulljp/Fuzz/Big Muffs/bigmuff-3034_0003.jpg”[/IMG]

    The LBM has pads for volume, tone and sustain, because it’s a BMP EH1322 board.
    You can kinda see them across the bottom of the this out of focus pic:

    [IMG]”http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq123/devnulljp/Fuzz/Little Big Muff/dsc_0029.jpg”[/IMG]
    You can see the resistors soldered across them.
    …or pop it out into a NYC RI box and you have an IC Big Muff pi.

    July 10, 2009 at 3:39 am in reply to: 90’s Deluxe Memory Man #99159
    devnulljp
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    Also, I remember some op-amps had been changed by the previous owner (4558’s instead TL072’s if I’m not mistaken – we didn’t took notes when it was being revised, oops).

    Thanks for the info. Stock op-amp is JRC4558D. It’s pretty grungy, so common to change out at least the U1 op-amp with a TL072. I think that’s analogman’s hi-fi mod.

    I’d like some pics of the switch wiring and where does the spliced LED wire go on the board? Anyone have pics to post?

    July 10, 2009 at 12:26 am in reply to: Vintage little big muff #99153
    devnulljp
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    Or you can mod it — that board is a 1322 board from a regular full size big muff but with resistors across the pads for the sustain and tone pots. Throw a trimmer on each them you can set the sustain and tone the way you like em and it’ll sound just like a 1322 IC Big Muff. Although I think it’s set for max sustain, as though the pot was turned hard clockwise. The stock tone settings are pretty bad though. icepick or blanket take your pick.

    July 10, 2009 at 12:21 am in reply to: 90’s Deluxe Memory Man #99152
    devnulljp
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    I’d still like details of those mods.
    I just got a Made in Taiwan (90s?) reissue. Sunds pretty good, but I’d like to TB and have the LED as an effect indicator (did the same mod on my QTron a while back).

    This is mine, not as clean as yours:
    dsc_0007.jpg

    July 8, 2009 at 7:44 pm in reply to: How to date an Electro Harmonix Pedal. #99047
    devnulljp
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    Thanks , I researched it today , I should know since I bought it new back in the 70’s. It’s a triangle ,the pots say 1966, I considered trading it for a boss rc 20 xl looper from a friend…..is that a good trade? thank you

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    July 8, 2009 at 4:59 pm in reply to: How to date an Electro Harmonix Pedal. #99019
    devnulljp
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    Just got aboard ,and pulled out my gold colored Big Muff(triangle I think because the volume sustain and tone knobs form a triangle)The pots would indicate 1966, I know thats wrong, what year do you think it is?

    Gold? You sure it’s not a Sovtek/Civil War/Green (that’s faded)? Could you post pics please? What are the pot codes?

    Triangle Big Muff looks like this:

    0309photof02.jpg

    If you have one that’s gold, that’d be pretty interesting.

    July 6, 2009 at 10:21 pm in reply to: EH-7600 Graphic Equalizer #98954
    devnulljp
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    One went for $57 a few weeks ago on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140323064230

    July 5, 2009 at 1:46 am in reply to: How did you learn to love music? #98901
    devnulljp
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    Saw this guy on TV somewhere when I was 8.

    acefrehley.jpg

    …later I figured if this drunken stoner could do it, so could I :D

    Very pleased to say my 3-year-old now asks to listen to Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones instead of all that other tosh toddlers usually get to listen to.

    July 4, 2009 at 8:10 pm in reply to: How to date an Electro Harmonix Pedal. #98893
    devnulljp
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    I’d like some info on what you actually do to calibrate the trimmers.
    Other than hooking it up to an oscilloscope…then what? What do you look for? How do you know it’s right vs.wrong?
    Anyone tried any of the software oscilloscopes like xoscope for this?

    July 4, 2009 at 6:19 am in reply to: Chorus for Bass Guitar? #98859
    devnulljp
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    Depends what you want.
    Original Clone Theory
    Boss CE2
    RetroSonic Chorus

    Not really chorus, but related:
    Boss DC2
    Fromel Lush/Seraph

    …have you tried the Small Clone though? That thing is really versatile.

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