Show me your vintage pedals.
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jjjimi84
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What are these?!?! Might as well suit up for the rabbit hole…
With this twenty year logic, can I dig out old builds? I have got some of the earliest BYOC kits from 05, vintage in a few weeks
Stickman393
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Hey man, I ain't no spring chicken either.
Post away. Let us collectively laugh at our terrible early builds.
Post away. Let us collectively laugh at our terrible early builds.
jjjimi84
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Aentons
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Maxon 01 series released only in Japan in 1986. The cases are the same as the 9 series only without the edges rounded. Some of the 01 series pedals have Ibanez equivalents or similar but there are some unique ones as well.
The DM-01 Multimode delay is my favorite. It has a rotary knob for different time ranges that correspond to phasish, flange, chorus, doubling, short and long delay, all with crazy wide modulation. It's similar to the Ibanez DML, DML10, DML20 but this one is better.
DE-01 is a echo/delay that sits behind/under what you are playing like nothing I've ever heard. You can set it for infinite repeats and play over it all day. It may be similar to the Ibanez DE7, not sure tho.
JD-01 is a big muff with modified tone stack. Almost identical to an Ibanez OD-850.
OD-01 is a modded rat with a od/distortion switch. The closest equivalent Ibanez would be the fat cat/visual sound product.
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jjjimi84
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Thank you for the description, I am hitting Reverb now…Maxon 01 series released only in Japan in 1986. The cases are the same as the 9 series only without the edges rounded. Some of the 01 series pedals have Ibanez equivalents or similar but there are some unique ones as well.
The DM-01 Multimode delay is my favorite. It has a rotary knob for different time ranges that correspond to phasish, flange, chorus, doubling, short and long delay, all with crazy wide modulation. It's similar to the Ibanez DML, DML10, DML20 but this one is better.
DE-01 is a echo/delay that sits behind/under what you are playing like nothing I've ever heard. You can set it for infinite repeats and play over it all day. It may be similar to the Ibanez DE7, not sure tho.
JD-01 is a big muff with modified tone stack. Almost identical to an Ibanez OD-850.
OD-01 is a modded rat with a od/distortion switch. The closest equivalent Ibanez would be the fat cat/visual sound product.
Maxon 01 series released only in Japan in 1986. The cases are the same as the 9 series only without the edges rounded. Some of the 01 series pedals have Ibanez equivalents or similar but there are some unique ones as well.
The DM-01 Multimode delay is my favorite. It has a rotary knob for different time ranges that correspond to phasish, flange, chorus, doubling, short and long delay, all with crazy wide modulation. It's similar to the Ibanez DML, DML10, DML20 but this one is better.
DE-01 is a echo/delay that sits behind/under what you are playing like nothing I've ever heard. You can set it for infinite repeats and play over it all day. It may be similar to the Ibanez DE7, not sure tho.
JD-01 is a big muff with modified tone stack. Almost identical to an Ibanez OD-850.
OD-01 is a modded rat with a od/distortion switch. The closest equivalent Ibanez would be the fat cat/visual sound product.
Never saw one of these in person, very cool! I'm a big fan of Ibanez pedals but oddly don't have any Maxon.
I.Must.Resist.
Aentons
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I actually had to use a purchasing and repackaging/shipping service in Japan to get mine. I've had a few of the rare ones over the years but ultimately resold them because they just didn't sound good, specifically the OD-02 and OR-01
vigilante398
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I keep seeing this thread while I'm at work and telling myself I'll get pictures when I get home, and then forgetting as soon as I leave work. But I had this on the bench tonight, so I finally remembered to grab some pics.
1979 Deluxe Electric Mistress. I bought it from a seller i the UK so it had the original 220V transformer in it, which I subsequently ripped out and jumped some stuff around to take a DC input. Tonight I finally got around to adding in a tiny SMPS PCB so I can take a 9VDC input and the board will still get the 18V it needs. I also decided since it was already far from stock that it was time to swap the footswitch and add an LED. There are a few pedals I buy because I want them for my collection so I can keep them on the wall, but this thing is going on my board. I've built a few BBD things in my time, but the SAD1024 is something special.
Here's a close-up of the SMPS board with a pick for scale. I originally designed it to make a high-capacity rechargeable battery for onboard bass preamps, which is why the two sides are labeled "BATT" and "+9V", but the regulator can take any input from 2.7V to 14V and spit out anything up to 40V. It's a neat IC.
1979 Deluxe Electric Mistress. I bought it from a seller i the UK so it had the original 220V transformer in it, which I subsequently ripped out and jumped some stuff around to take a DC input. Tonight I finally got around to adding in a tiny SMPS PCB so I can take a 9VDC input and the board will still get the 18V it needs. I also decided since it was already far from stock that it was time to swap the footswitch and add an LED. There are a few pedals I buy because I want them for my collection so I can keep them on the wall, but this thing is going on my board. I've built a few BBD things in my time, but the SAD1024 is something special.
Here's a close-up of the SMPS board with a pick for scale. I originally designed it to make a high-capacity rechargeable battery for onboard bass preamps, which is why the two sides are labeled "BATT" and "+9V", but the regulator can take any input from 2.7V to 14V and spit out anything up to 40V. It's a neat IC.
That is neat! What regulator are you using here?
vigilante398
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It's an LM2733, it's what I use pretty much anytime I need a DC-DC boost that isn't going to be for tubes.
Feral Feline
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I glanced at the pic and literally thought the first said "METHADONE DELAY"
Fama
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FWIW I have a mistress clone (on an etched PCB even) I bought which has a SAD in it, buuuut the volume drop was so annoying I didn't really get to know it.
One day I will add a small inline booster to fix the volume drop, but that day has not yet come. I don't think those necessarily count as vintage pedals although I think they might be from the early 2000's so I haven't posted them (there's the Mistress and also some vibe thing which was really cool but also fucking massive and maybe too many controls).
JohnnyCreepy
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Is posting vintage pedal platforms acceptable?
Edit. just realized my VAI-2 wah fits to the topic. Gave it some mods, but still it doesn’t play well my pedal platform. Been thinking about messing with always-on-buffer if I could somehow make it more ”hifi” as now it dulls and distorts signal. :/
Edit. just realized my VAI-2 wah fits to the topic. Gave it some mods, but still it doesn’t play well my pedal platform. Been thinking about messing with always-on-buffer if I could somehow make it more ”hifi” as now it dulls and distorts signal. :/
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