Leaky germanium transistors are still useful. Indeed, there are quite a few circuits that will not work without leaky germaniums. Try building a 10k/47k Tone Bender Mk. II without transistors that leak at least 300uA. I’ve built really good sounding Tone Bender Mk. III types where Q3 leaked over 800uA. Don’t fear the leakage. Just don’t try to build a fuzz face with them.
Oh, didn’t mean leaky would be totally useless! I couldn’t wait so brought tester in and did some quick readings. These ”new & worse look” ones are a score. Better readings than ”older look” type had.
Bee is holding an AR-15, originally designed by Eugene Stoner
Jesus, that happened to me only once, but not that bad, wow.
My first indiction that something was wrong was when I noticed that the footswitch board was already broken off from the main board
Thank 4 tracks looks pretty clean!
Haven’t plugged it in yet, but that 4 track is what I was after. Hoping to get that working and incorporate it into my nonsense studio rig. Luckily it was in a case, so it was spared the dust and rodent damage everything else has.
Back in the day before acoustic instrument DI's were a dime a dozen, the Para DI was a chiznits. I used one for a while for acoustic gigs. Then when they started coming out with stereo acoustic pickup systems (mic + piezo) I moved on to a Raven Labs PMB. Steve Rabe was another discrete analog genius.
That hammer is adorable!
Nice find. Time to get your hustle on. Throw them on Reverb.com and finance your next couple dozen pedal builds
Nah. All the hording is part of my long game plan to early semi-retiremt. Of course, the pending the propulsion of dystopia and all. You know. The normal caveats.Nice find. Time to get your hustle on. Throw them on Reverb.com and finance your next couple dozen pedal builds
