Original MkI Tone Bender

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Wow, nice score!!!
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DiscoFreq wrote: Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:47 am Wow, nice score!!!
The word "score" is way underrated :headpop:
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It went to the right guy. Congrats, homie!
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Damn man…amazing find!! Wild to think there’s still a pedal like this out there.
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fernieite wrote: Fri Jul 02, 2021 2:18 am Wow man! That's fantastic!!! Congrats! :party:

Love your website too! :badteeth:
Yes, very well done, references and all. :tu:
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Nick wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 4:51 pm Sorry to those of you from the forum who were among the supposedly 40(!) people that messaged the poor old geezer about this. Take solace in knowing that the pedal didn't end up to be as cheap as advertised (... and also that it's broken
DOA? Return that shit.

What do you think the chances are that switch works? :marx:
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Philip wrote: Fri Jul 02, 2021 8:12 pm
fernieite wrote: Fri Jul 02, 2021 2:18 am Wow man! That's fantastic!!! Congrats! :party:

Love your website too! :badteeth:
Yes, very well done, references and all. :tu:
'Tis a labour of love! I'll continue to update it as and when more (interesting) info becomes available :cheers:
vanguard wrote: Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:52 pm What do you think the chances are that switch works? :marx:
Rather low! These Bulgin switches (which were seemingly only used by Sola Sound for a very limited time) have a terrible track record for survival. This one seems to cycle fine for now though, by some miracle...
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Re: Original MkI Tone Bender

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Bravo, sir!! Just outstanding. Freakishly similar if not identical component wise to the Groundhogs MKI. Very interesting indeed.

Nick wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 4:51 pm (... and also that it's broken :badteeth: )
I know a guy....he's local too. :marx:
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The Captain wrote: Sat Aug 14, 2021 11:22 am Bravo, sir!! Just outstanding. Freakishly similar if not identical component wise to the Groundhogs MKI. Very interesting indeed.

Nick wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 4:51 pm (... and also that it's broken :badteeth: )
I know a guy....he's local too. :marx:
Turned out that it just needed a little while to acclimitise. Philip told me to record a lil clip of it, so I agreed, but not before stealing one of his tunes :badteeth:




It's almost identical to the Groundhogs pedal, but this rust-bucket has the same 33k ohm resistor from the attack pot to ground as on the BI contest pedal, which I'd already suspected was the youngest known example from the 'Letraset' era. Since Gary seemed to have gone back to using the Hunts caps on even later models, I had previously assumed that the funky electrolytic caps in the Groundhogs pedal were replacements, so it was very funky to see the same ones here.

We've still not seen two MKI's that are exactly identical yet, and that includes this second original to have surfaced this year :shocked:

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That thing sounds crazy cool :freakout:

And that other MKI looks sick as hell. Where’d that one surface at?
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