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As far as I know the Poly Flange is identical to the vintage Poly Chorus. I’d try and track down a schematic of that (not the reissue stereo poly chorus, which is different)
ZippsterMemberQuote:Hi, Can someone help me?? I Have A big muff looks like a V3 …I’ve AC and on/off write on the top.
Have the cylinder knob like the v5/v6/v9 but the 3003 circuit board with the bc239 transistor non-aligment pots and pots dated ’77
thanks for helping meI suppose there’s a slight possibility it’s an early V6 made with old pots lying around, but I think more than likely it’s a V3 (tone bypass was truly established when V6 came around) and would probably market it as such if it were my unit. I have a unit dated 84 that has the pointy knobs so I don’t think the knobs should be used as any guide.
ZippsterMemberQuote:I have a 73 ram’s head muff that’s quite quite and a 77 Guild Foxey lady ram’s head, both with FS36999s, and neither is really noisy — sure there’s always some, but not too bad. My DAM Ram Heads are as quiet as you can get with such a high gain pedal. OTOH I had a 3034 that sounded like you were standing next to a helicopter and my tone wicker was worse than that. I’ve had a half dozen Hoofs over the eyars and none of them came close to the noise levels of the TW or that 3034. A little buzz is acceptable but the overly loud jet engine WOOOOOOOSH is a deal killer (for me anyway).I wonder if that’s due to the 3034 circuit board being smaller? the 3003 circuit board is huge by comparison. I’ve recently acquired a 3034 and there is a bit of hum that I don’t recall there being with my IC muff. Nothing like you’re describing though. On the other hand the IC had bleed-through issues and the 3034 does not, although the bypass is still abysmal. Either way as soon as I start playing I can’t hear the hum so I’m happy.
ZippsterMemberNice. Get that on ebay? There was one for $199 BIN in insanely good condition (like yours) that I was sorely tempted on, but I’m not that into collecting for collectings sake. I’ll wait for a vintage deluxe to appear. Glad it’s found a good home though. If it’s the same one the guy mentioned it was quite noisy after he had recapped it. Interesting bit of trivia he mentioned was that in the next version EHX compressed the signal before entering the chip and expanded it after it came out in an attempt to reduce noise.
ZippsterMemberQuote:I haven’t seen many EchoFlangers, PolyFlanges, or vintage PolyChorus units on eBay in quite awhile. It seems like there was one every week last year.Pedals definitly seem to arrive on eBay in ebbs and flows. There was a polyflanger up about 2 months ago
ZippsterMemberI have a broken 1975 at home. Sounds like it might be worth getting fixed
ZippsterMemberQuote:Does anyone here know if these will work with the original 16 sec. delay? http://www.smallbearelec.com/Detail.bok?no=636
It says its for the old micro synth.
Thanks.Hey thanks for that! Now I can source slider cap replacements. Brilliant!
ZippsterMemberQuote:Quote:Very true.Actually I havent a/b tested any other muffs with my black russian one. As soon as I tried the 2000 russian one it was exactly what I wanted. I just clicked it on and turned the knobs to whatever sounded good at the moment and Boom! exactly the tone I was looking for. later I tried the current USA BMP and little muff and a few others but they didnt have what i was going for. So I went back to the russian. But I never really tested side by side. But like I said I agree that every version is differnt and subject to taste. And the whole “mojo” statement thing I was saying is from talking to other people who shelled out big bucks for a vintage triangle rams head something or other because Gilmour or someone used it on this or that recording. They bought it unheard and untested because its mythic. Its also very true that with the russian ones you can be lucky and get a good one or you can get a crap one. this seems to be true for the USA ones as well.
I wonder if someone side by side tested lets say 10 of the legendary v2 BMP’s how much varience would there be between each one? Odds are you would find a favorite among the crowd.I just did this recently with seven V2 Muffs and 10 of the 1990s Sovteks. I recorded it, but listening back, I’m not sure too many people would notice the differences from one to another, except for two of them. I can hear the differences when I play in front of my amp, but with a backing track or band, not sure many people could tell. The Sovteks did have a lot more variance than I thought, listening back, but again, with a band playing, not sure sure you could hear much of the treble/bass/clarity differences in an mp3.
Now, listening to a V2 and a reissue – Huge difference. Listen to the comparison clip 1 for each here if you want to hear why people shell out big bucks for older Muffs.
http://www.kitrae.net/music/Music_mp3_Big_Muff_Sound.htmlAfter having listened to all of your clips I concur that the v2 was certainly better, but for me at least certainly not $300 worth of better than a current Little Big Muff. Some might be able to hear the subtle differences (NYC Ri was certainly more hollow sounding than the others) but I have to admit I really struggled to hear much difference between the rams head and lbm. All the better for me – I’ll throw the saved cash at echo flangers and the like.
July 9, 2010 at 12:14 am in reply to: order all the EHX pedals you’ve owned from favorite to least favorite #110068ZippsterMemberCurrent:
80 Electric Mistress (green computer-like circuit board with no trim pots. Much less hiss than the
70s one I had. Sounds like a hi-band flanger)
70s Zipper (very warm resonant filter. Throaty, not quacky. Has an orange LED which I’m not sure is
stock or not)
79 Microsynth (trigger is a bit finicky on mine but many awesome sounds to be found)
75 Octave Multiplexer (currently broken
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84 Big Muff (smooth warm muffy tones from the last year of the original EHX)Past:
Holiest Grail (everything’s tweakable and 8 presets. Easy to overload with HBs though)
70s Hot Tubes (Gritty low gain OD. Massive boost potential.)
70s Ver 5 IC Big Muff (huge sounding, particularly with the tone switched out)
Flanger Hoax (brilliant thru-zero flanger. A bit too hissy though)
76 V1 Small Stone (very buttery unobtrusive phase. Lots of tone suck and volume drop though)
70s Electric Mistress (Cream hand-drawn circuit board with 2 blue trimpots. Incredibly noisy and lots
of volume drop. A old curiosity only)ZippsterMemberThose are two of the cleanest vintage EHX pedals I’ve seen. You’re a lucky guy.
ZippsterMemberMy hunch is the so-called “reverse paint” pedals were largely export models. You usually see them more often coming from Europe (eg black DEM with green writing, the various MM you’re describing). I suppose the different paint job helped distinguish a 220v version from the 110v when suppling distributors. I’m not saying this was the case ALL the time, but it makes sense.
July 5, 2010 at 1:54 am in reply to: 18V Electric Mistress unity gain issue a factory standard…? What the..? #109972ZippsterMemberIf you search electric mistress in youtube you’ll find a video by some british guy who has demoed a lot of vintage EHX pedals where prior to the demo he shows you how to overcome the volume drop. It’s basically installing a capacitor and resistor in parallel with some existing ones on the back of the circuitboard (i.e the side facing you when you open ip the pedal). Looks dead easy if you have some soldering experience.
My original vintage mistress had a huge volume drop, but I’ve recently picked up another on ebay that looks to be a later version – it has a green circuit board and dashes in the circles around the knobs. I also noticed it had a capacitor in parallel off the IC chip in a similar place to where british dude has modded his unit. Will report back if EHX corrected the drop in the later units.
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