Showing posts with label tone bender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tone bender. Show all posts

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Steggo's First Grab Bag Sale!!!

EDIT: Well, Dimetrius was right... these are all now sold!

So as I mentioned in my teaser article, there are a lot of cool things in the pipeline. I just put in a large order for enclosures this weekend. Of course, now Dimetrius (the dimetrodon - our office manager - don't worry, he's cool - he'll never ask for a TPS report) has indicated that we have too many pedals, especially early prototypes, lying around. He also hinted it would be "really cool" if we could find a way to get some of them to new homes. So, introducing Steggo's first "Grab Bag" sale!

Dimetrius Dimetrodon - our office manager - with his coffee

Friday, September 24, 2021

How Much Fuzz is Too Much Fuzz??? The World May Never Know...

Apologies for my enforced absence for the past few days. I'd just built a new computer and had encountered all sorts of issues with it from BIOS to drivers. Fortunately there weren't any hardware issues, but the BIOS issues involved getting a local shop to help sort them out. In the interim I've been busily working away on a few new pedals with a few new techniques I'd picked up on the DIY Stompboxes Unoffical page on Facebook. The first I'll feature here is the Aion Phobos, which is a version of the Tone Bender Mark III from 1967-8. It's a very early fuzz pedal with three germanium transistors and a built-in voltage inverter that maintains the positive (effective) ground of the original while using a standard center negative power supply.