Paul Setzer is disqalified from guessing because he already knows. Brian Setzer is disqualified from guessing because he didn't come to the Roundup.
Hint: blue on black
What would you guess this to be??
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Jul 16, 2008 12:32 a.m. JBGretschguy:
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Jul 16, 2008 12:50 a.m. Setzer:
Or Purple _ _ _ _
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Jul 16, 2008 12:55 a.m. Proteus:
'at 'ere's a circuit.
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Jul 16, 2008 1:05 a.m. otterbean:
What a guitar effects pedal looks like after it has been hit by an oncoming car? Pedal guts.
"It was horrible officer. That innocent little guitar pedal was just scampering along when out of nowhere...an old Mercury with a chopped top came along and ground it into the pavement. Just kept on driving away. A Hit and run move. It oughta' be against the law."
Now I'm trying to figure out why there are two 9volt battery hookups there.
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Jul 16, 2008 1:37 a.m. JBGretschguy:
The 2nd 9-volt hookup you see in the picture is from the "prototype" version of the same pedal, which sitting right next to the "finished" one.
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Jul 16, 2008 3:45 a.m. crowbone:
That wouldn't be a treble booster for a Rally now, would it?...No, too sophisticated with the led.
My guess is a Tremolo, or some kind of modulator, activated when in. If active only when plugged in, then why the led? Seems like a waste of power, albeit a trickle, unless you like all those lights!
Am I in the ballpark?
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Jul 16, 2008 8:38 a.m. Gigatron:
Wow! That looks like an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. Where on Earth did you find it?
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Jul 16, 2008 8:47 a.m. dubkitty:
Quick! Bring it to the cannon and we can destroy Earth!.
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Jul 16, 2008 8:50 a.m. Curt:
At first I thought it was something to go into a geetar but the long shaft on the pots makes me think not. Some kind of pedal but what I don't know.
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Jul 16, 2008 8:59 a.m. Nobody:
Where's the kaboom? There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering kabooom.
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Jul 16, 2008 9:11 a.m. JBGretschguy:
The long-shaft pots are not a clue, exactly. It's a transformer-based guitar effect commissioned by one of our finest contributors here. I'll post a video demo later.
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Jul 16, 2008 9:17 a.m. manbearpig:
Seems to be some sort of 'amplifier' IC with two pot controls, a filter at the front end and some kind of matching transformer at the o/p. I can only see one 1/4" jack, possibly the input, so there could be a clue off to the left where the red and blue wires are going.
so what's got two pots on it? hmmmm
My first guess is a compressor, second guess: overdrive.
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Jul 16, 2008 9:18 a.m. manbearpig:
ahh I got in too late!
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Jul 16, 2008 9:21 a.m. manbearpig:
but your second picture is not the same circuit is it? I'm confused.
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Jul 16, 2008 9:25 a.m. Walter Broes:
You're building an Octavia for Paul?
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Jul 16, 2008 10:05 a.m. JBGretschguy:
manbearpig, The second picture is a similar circuit - same effect. ICs and such have reduced the parts count since 1968.
Walter is correct! I will post a video clip of the results today.
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Jul 16, 2008 12:44 p.m. JBGretschguy:
VIDEO CLIP!!
(for some reason, it won't embed, so follow the link)
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Jul 16, 2008 12:56 p.m. Proteus:
That Paul. He's a noise junkie for sure!
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Jul 16, 2008 12:57 p.m. manbearpig:
nice work! Some of sounds on that clip sounded kinda like a Fender Rhodes
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Jul 16, 2008 4:23 p.m. Setzer:
Yeah! Thanks JB. Now I need to dig around and fabricate a wedge out of some metal.
How does jOshtavia sound for the name?
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Jul 16, 2008 6:48 p.m. roadjunkie:
Josh how does that sound compared to the Rodger Mayer I sent you?
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Jul 16, 2008 11:03 p.m. JBGretschguy:
Paul, I'm not sure I deserve to have it named after me! hahaha! I just borrowed someone else's idea. PaulTavia would be equally appropriate.
RJ, I never was able to coax the right tones out of the Roger Mayer one. I think it's partially my fault, because I didn't have the right fuzz pedal to drive it with. It was so big and heavy and didn't have room on my pedalboard for it and a Fuzz Face, so I traded it for a Fulldrive. This octave pedal has a built-in switchable fuzz feature, so it's light and compact.
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Jul 16, 2008 11:05 p.m. wenzel:
Looks like an active pickup setup for some odd guitar or an onboard effect system of some sort to be built into said guitar.
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Jul 17, 2008 12:19 a.m. cyclopssam:
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Jul 23, 2008 11:15 p.m. Setzer:
JB's Octavio circuit in a RatShack project box that I chopped.
I'll paint the wedge white and add lettering in black.
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