Thought I should pull my finger out my ass and provide a bit more history on the goods. I'll start at the top, with the 1966, and work through all of the D*A*M range past and present.
Thought it might be of interest and also could come in handy for pricing and what not.
Just laying down the bare bones for now but I''ll go over each of the sections and compile notes like I've done with the first 1966.
No#1, August 2003
One-off "horse" decal
Dry letter transfers used for labeling
Supplied with a set off AC128's and a set of OC76's
Blue LED
DC socket
Side mounted Switchcraft jacks
Horizontal mounted circuit board
Matrix board construction
Over sized components
Side mounted metal toggle switch
Input bias trimmer
No #2 January 2004
Baby Pink Eddystone enclosure
Dry letter transfers used for labeling
Green LED
DC socket
Supplied with a set off AC128's and a set of OC76's
Socketed output capacitor
Side mounted Cliff Jacks
Q2 bias trimmer & input bias trimmer
Matrix board construction
Constructed to match the Dragonfly's made at that time
No#3-4 March 2004
As No#1 but converted to Negative ground
No "horse" decal
No#3 was silver/grey Hammerite, No#4 pictured
No#5 June 2004
Numbered as 004 but it was actually 005!
Low set knobs
Top mounted Cliff jacks
Eaton Cutler Hammer DPDT switch (the best!)
No LED
No DC
2 x OC76
New board layout
Stripboard construction
Tone Control over "Super Bee" switch
Constructed to match the Pro MKII's made at that time
No#6-10 October/November 2004
As above but with high set knobs & Carling DPDT footswitch
No#6 was silver/grey Hammerite that I originally made for myself (later traded) possibly had a side mounted tone control in the same position as the Super Bee switch.
No#7 (pictured) was the 1st 1966 to have the rotary switch for the Super Bee switching
No#8 was original made without the Super Bee switch but was later returned so it could be added.
No# 9-10 as No#7
The above all had slight differences in the decals as they were all hand applied with dry letter transfers, one letter at a time, so some the types of font varied depending on what transfers sheets I had to hand. My local stationary store was selling off all their stock of transfer sheets so I bought whatever was on sale that week that looked "retro"
No#11 - 84-ish / December 2004 - June 2006
The all seeing eye years :-D
As above but with new artwork applied by a single water slide decal & switchcraft jacks
No#11-12 had 2 x OC76
No#13 Was the first 1966 to have the mixed transistor set-up. AC128 for Q1, OC76 for Q2
No#20 was the Mini 1966 shown below.
AC128's or AC128K's were used for Q1. AC128 has the square heatsink, as shown.
No#27 was the first 1966 to have the AC128K
No#34 - 8? used a SFT device in Q1. (like shown on the custom purple 1966 board) Originally SFT337 but also other SFT types were used, SFT353 etc.
2004
2006
Oddity's...No#20 April 2005
Pedal borad friendly 1966
AC128 and OC76
Filter control, same as the type used on the Drag'n'fly
No#49 February 2006
Custom purple paint job
SFT337 and Mullard OC76, exact replica of the first Vox Tone Bender I had for reference purposes
No#85-ish - 179 / June 2006 - present day, 2008
Okay, so my notes get a little thin come 2006 as we were headlong in selling to dealers and I only really made a note of where they went and only occasionally what transistors were inside.
From pedal #82 (June 2006) - #138 (September 2007) there are no notes on the transistors. I'd assume the main stay would have been a SFT353 & an OC76.
That is fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to post all that info and fuzz porn.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Great stuff, Captain! Looking forward to the updates.
I was wondering if you could eventually elaborate a bit on the five 1966s that you built with the NKT OC75 and Mullard OC81 transistor combo. I have one of them, and it sounds fucking great!! However, I have never had the opportunity to check any other versions out so I'm not sure how they compare. What was your reason/inspiration for using this combo and how would you say it differs sound wise form some of the other combos?
I think you mentioned some of this in the auction but I can seem to find it.
Dave, I notice that you have said that the enclosure with the Seeing-Eye ran from "No#11 - 90-ish / December 2004 - November 2006". However, I have found pedal number 85 that was done by Linzi (unusual in itself) that was made in June 2006 that does not have the Seeing-Eye logo on it. Therefore, you may have phased out the Seeing-Eye enclosure for the 1966 before November 2006. Is that correct or is pedal 85 kind of an anomaly?
I knew you could shed light on the matter. I have it down as "90-ish" because I don't actually know for sure when the screened 1966 enclosures replaced the seeing eye decal enclosures.
It was a crazy busy time for us then, we were suppling dealers left right and centre so my notes are not as indepth as with the early pedals. It was a case of the screened enclosures came in and we jumped right into getting them out to stores.
I've corrected the above. So, for now we'll say 85 is one of first non-seeing eye screened 1966's until we find otherwise....
btw - 1966's made by Miss Haynes are very rare indeed, nice find
thank you so much for the history on the 1966 David!
The 1966 is becoming my favorite fuzz pedal(including my whole collection!), and I can't see to stop using it all the time.
Here is a small sample using the 1966 and a Zeke I have:
The Captain wrote:I knew you could shed light on the matter...I've corrected the above. So, for now we'll say 85 is one of first non-seeing eye screened 1966's until we find otherwise....btw - 1966's made by Miss Haynes are very rare indeed, nice find
Thank you very much for that. Give me a call whenever you want to know what else you did in the past as I still have all the surveillance tapes :D So far I have only come across one 1966 made Miss H but the search goes on...
Wow, pedal porn freakout! Definitely a milestone post, maybe these history posts should be stickies?
What was the story behind the horse decal on the 1966 No#1 by the way? :geek:
Hi Dave, I have some information on the 1966 History in this thread D*A*M Pedal Descriptions. I was wondering if you could take all the 1966 transistor photos I have in my thread and incorporate it into your thread? Once that is done I can remove the 1966 section from my thread. :-)