Affordable Tone Bender Clones

DarnWeight · December 2014

Are there any out there without going boo-teek? I'm interested in a Mk III, and I'm struggling to find much (beyond buying a kit and building one myself).

koss59 · December 2014

I'm selling a Hudson White Heat if you're interested? It's a Vox Tonebender clone not a MK 3 though

DarnWeight · December 2014

koss59 said:

I'm selling a Hudson White Heat if you're interested? It's a Vox Tonebender clone not a MK 3 though

Cheers, but I definitely need some kind of tone-shaping options, and the MkIII looks the business in that respect.

EricTheWeary · December 2014

Ghost Effects seem to do a lot of Tonebender types to order, although not spotted a MkIII on their site. Their pedals look really good and they have a few name users. Standard pedals around £100 so I'm guessing built to order will be a chunk above that.

xHymnal · December 2014

I find the Mk 1.5 is also very versatile, the pick of the bunch for touch-responsiveness and vol control response imo. I can't think of many non boutique apart from the fulltone soul bender. I could name a few boutique builders that wouldn't charge the £500+ a D*A*M build would be though. The key is to get some good trannies in there.

allicio · December 2014

Do yourself a favour and bite the bullet.http://www.joespedals.com/acatalog/Skinpimp_MK_II.html
One of the best mkiii builds and Ryan Kirkland's stuff is going up in value all the time

xHymnal · December 2014

^ that's my old one. It's a very very good build. I hate to admit that the only reason I got rid was because I didn't like the graphics. I like my tonebenders to be in big enclosures; old school!

ThorpyFX · December 2014

I'm selling a couple that I've built, pm me and I can make some recommendations.

DarnWeight · December 2014

thorpy6 said:

I'm selling a couple that I've built, pm me and I can make some recommendations.

Cheers, PMed!

Another thought...anyone tried the Basic Audio Scarab Deluxe? Basically a kind of Silicon Tone Bender with a few more tweakables (Bias and Fat). Demos sound good, but not sure how accurately it cops the "proper" Germanium vibe.

Alnico · December 2014

Forge, of this very parish does an excellent Tonebender clone of his own making.

I was all lined up to order one but things have gone a bit pete tong financially.

Well worth a chat to him.

allicio · December 2014

^^^ oh yeah!! That octagonal enclosure is ace!!!

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