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As for being clone, this isn’t a range of pedals I’m familiar with. However, the circuit is as simple as a fuzz face circuit where cloning values is far from cloning components.
The tone offers more bass and treble than you possibly need, as well as a volume boost beyond my other pedals combined, and a gain that reaches a foolish fuzz; a simple pedal that compensated by offering way too much than any amp could handle.
It has its defects: it is nothing like a tube pedal as it lacks any subtleties from picking pressure. Rather, it colours your sound, supports it with sustain; the amp or tube pedals can provide the playing differences. Perhaps it should be treated as a boost/distortion pedal. Unfortunate, the guitar volume pot does nothing so no ff cleanup.
Oh yes, it’s quiet. No interference but that may be due to its independent power.
Another circuit or two could be incorporated inside the pedal as an option to the clean. Any suggestions?
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I can get my hand on a 50 quid The Worm first edition with the big enclosure. I could take everything out, cancel the print on the enclosure, and fill up the excellent enclosure with pots galore and circuits.....
Luckily, I woke up this morning and put some money down on the new Hamstead overdrive. I figure that and the ryra should have me covered for tone and drive.
One temptation though: a first edition TIM for not bad money is on the cards. Should I?
Which brings me back to the hot tubes. I've never heard the modern equivalent but I doubt there the two are comparable. It isn't the circuit; it's the meat in the sound.
Anyway, my plan is to go ahead with the transfer to a small enclosure.
Good luck with the rehousing of a vintage pedal though - some would say you’re crazy but if that’s what you want to do then give it a crack!
I'm starting to feel a little guilty about violating this pedal. It's immaculate with original box, manual and receipt from a shop in the USA in 1978. I think I might leave it to one side for the moment. God, it did sound great. The clean feels like it has been injected with a shot of adrenalin: solid, strong...and like a klon you can slowly add in a taste of drive... much fuzzier than a klon though.
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