Sanford & Sonny Bluebeard

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johnk_10

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I had an original S&S Bluebeard years ago but sold it so i was looking for another one to buy. after not finding one, i decided to make one of my own but in a smaller enclosure with a relayed true bypass. I call my version the "Blackbeard". I had requests to make some for others and Sanford and Sonny actually bought one for himself.
anyway, here's a couple of pics of it:

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I think this begs the question of what schematic/trace you used...just as easy as the GGG schematic with bigger filtering cap, or what.

Feral felines among others may be interested in such an information...
 
Dope. I first read about this pedal in a Bass Guitar magazine column Troy from Mastodon had in the mid-'00s. Then, as I wound up going to college in Baltimore, I met Sonny himself just by virtue of going to gigs. One of the kindest, sweetest people to ever walk the earth, my recollection is just the original demand for Bluebeards quickly eclipsed the scalability of a one-man operation run by a married father of three.
 
Robert said:
I saw this pedal and was going to ask you about it a while back... I'd be interested to see the schematic as well.
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it's basically the GGG schematic, but has 9V (100-220uf) filtering, uses 2N5089 transistors, and has a tone bypass.
i built mine using Sonny's layout and etched a PCB for it to make it as close to the original as possible. I also used Panasonic 100nf's for the coupling caps like the original too.
 
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