#jumbo tone bender

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Three boxes and then two more ... and the French case!

"Three boxes with the same Jumbo Tone Bender fuzz circuit. And then two more with a different circuit each. Ant Macari of @macaris_official has mentioned in the Vintage and Rarities book that “Having the three knobs in a row down the middle of the deal like that also allowed us to put the same circuit in the Colorsound Supa Wah Fuzz Swell Pedal”. I wonder if this is the right way round? It seems as likely that there were surplus boards originally destined for the SWFS and they were repurposed for “specials”, like the rebranded CMI and B&M - which uniquely used the long, flat “French case”. I wonder also if this was the origin of the French case, as this board format would have required the case to be drilled differently for both knobs and jacks. The CSL Power Boost/Overdriver had the usual knob layout in the French case, but jacks either side, not together. Another outlier was the Carlsbro, which was the same as a regular Tone Bender in all respects bar the graphics. My take on the side jacks on the French case - on the three in a line boards there was no room for end jacks - but there was plenty of room in the CSL. The CSL jacks are at the side (left and right side because there’s no room for two on one side with the larger circuit board) because the rear of the French case is curved top to bottom - so it was ** never designed for rear facing jacks, the Colorsound standard ** I think there were surplus SFWS boards, which dictated the format of the French case, with side mounted jacks and a rounded rear section because they never anticipated putting jacks there. The last few pics are of the 1976 Carlsbro, which has a germanium TB circuit, and the more complex CSL from three years earlier, which has the silicon Overdriver circuit. Now I’m really confused."

such a cool post, and at least we have learned about the French case!

cred: instagram.com/humphreybarclay

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Top Ten Songs & Their Movie Scenes (Part 2)

#5: “These Boots Are Made for Walking” by Nancy Sinatra, from “Full Metal Jacket” (1987): In a scene probably slightly more famous for birthing the ever-popular catch-phrase, “me so horny,” Stanley Kubrick kicks off the second half of his Vietnam War drama with steady focus on the heels of a Vietnamese street walker who struts right up to Private Joker (Matthew Modine) and squawks, “Hey baby. You got girlfriend Vietnam?” and then persists on negotiating a price for her services. “Any-ting you wan.” Nancy Sinatra says, “you keep saying, you got something for me.” According to Private Joker, that “something” needs to be five dollars or less, because that's all his mom allows him to spend.

#4: “Shout” by Otis Day & the Knights, from “Animal House” (1978): We're told that it's not going to be an orgy. It's a toga party. It ends up being all-campus rage featuring a performance by Otis Day & the Knights, complete with spraying beer, smashed guitars, and a smashed wife of the dean. In real life, “Shout” gets played at parties, weddings, and especially sporting events; the latter usually is accompanied by a jumbo-tron image of John Belushi's Bluto writhing around on the floor with beer bottles and popcorn. Knowing that they're going to get kicked off campus no matter what they do, the Delta's use their last toga party to hit a new low. We're so ashamed.

#3: “Unchained Melody” by The Righteous Brothers, from “Ghost” (1990): Possibly the saddest, most heart-wrenching film since “Old Yeller,” Patrick Swayze and a very young Demi Moore (pre-Kutcher) move into their new apartment together and bond over a pottery wheel. Sam and Molly sit together as their clay spins in their hand and between their fingers. Their last night before tragedy strikes is laminated by the haunting tones of the Righteous Brothers. There are no words and none are needed. Their feelings for one another are resurrected when the song is played again when they are finally able to touch one another.

#2: “Don't You Forget About Me” by Simple Minds, from “The Breakfast Club” (1985): As Saturday detention lets out for the day, the brain, the jock, the princess, the basket case, and the criminal all walk out of Shermer High School a little wiser and a little more knowledgeable about the other students in the school. We see Bender and Claire (Judd Nelson and Molly Ringwald, respectively) staring into each other's eyes as the lyrics ask, “Will you recognize me?/Call my name or walk on by?” and one can't help but wonder, would the prom queen step down in class for her love of the bad boy? When Claire gives Bender one of her diamond earrings, you just know that maybe some of those sociological walls might fall on Monday.

#1: “Stuck In the Middle With You” by Stealers Wheel, from “Reservoir Dogs” (1992): In what might be the most disturbing torture scene that undoubtedly inspired two horrible “Hostel” movies, Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) decides he doesn't care what his hostage knows or doesn't know; he's going to torture him anyway. Mr. Blonde turns up K-Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's to hear the “Dylan-esque” “Stuck In the Middle With You” fill the silence. Mr. Blonde dances side to side, wielding a straight razor before leaping onto the lap of the cop who is duct taped to the chair. Mr. Blonde saws through the cop's ear off-camera before reemerging, covered in blood, and holding up the fleshy, bloody mess to his mouth as he mockingly speaks into it. The scene is invariably tattooed on any fan of Quentin Tarantino's breakthrough movie as the tragic irony in the lyrics that exclaim, “I'm so scared in case I fall out my chair.”  It's too difficult to hear the song and not shimmy and shake, thinking about that scared cop covered in his own blood, gasoline, and tears.

Honorable Mentions:

“Wild Thing” by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, from “Major League”

“Holding Out For A Hero” by Bonnie Tyler, from “Footloose”

“Master of Puppets” by Metallica, from “Old School”

“You Never Can Tell” by Chuck Barry, from “Pulp Fiction”

“Damn, It Feels Good to Be A Gangster” by Ghetto Boys, from “Office Space”

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Rétro tone - jumbo tone bender

cred: facebook.com/Retro tone

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Colorsound - Fuzz ( Supa Jumbo ) third run random number, red on yellow 

“If you're not bothered about which serial number you get - i mean all that choosing malarky - you may not have the time - then buy on this page and we will choose one, blindfolded, for you - rock on ! The Colorsound Third Run So what’s this all about? Well, in true Sola Sound style this is a pedal that started off as something special then turned into something else – something REALLY special!! You may remember that a couple of years ago, we decided to make a sub £ 200 fuzz. We used cases left over from the Bum Fuzz project and called it the cheap ass bum fuzz – they all sold. Well, we wanted to carry on, so we made a bunch of cases intending to make another high quality but affordable pedal (Huge thanks to Alan Murray who designed it as always and a massive thank you to Electric Warrior who cleaned it up and added the arrows of funkiness) It nearly happened, but something came up. Dave Main discovered a weird Jumbo Tone Bender anomaly – a few 70s models with a fourth stage of gain that was never in circuit and a backwards transistor to boot – surely it was never meant to exist! But in true fuzz nerd style we decided to develop the idea as if it WAS meant to exist. Dave built the adapted circuit into a sort of Jumbo Supa Tone Bender. We housed it in our Batman logo case and it became the Bat Supe. It sounded frankly, incredible!! Soon after all this madness the new cheap ass project cases arrived. The intention was to make them with a regular Jumbo Tone Bender circuit inside like the cheap ass bum fuzz, but with this new ‘fourth stage of gain‘ discovery  Dave started pushing me towards and affordable Bat Supe pedal, no vintage mojo parts , but still great components , single screen on the cas , cheaper knobs. I resisted . . . . For almost 3 minutes. Two weeks later he sent me the prototype . . . . I plugged it in and another 3 minutes later gave it the green light! Basically, if you own all the fuzzes we’ve ever made, you still need this one – it’s like having the best Jumbo Tone Bender ever but where a Jumbo normally runs into over-dark bass when you back the treble off, this supplies the most focused and useable  bass laden fuzz sounds I have ever heard  - Its powerful, full of amazing overtones and is just different – its killer!”

Nah, story goes on, read more:

cred: macaris.co.uk/colorsound-supa-jumbo-fuzz-third-run-random-number

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Soulman Vintage Museum

“... if you'll get some difficulties with some original stuff and you will want to look at it closely and at the guts too, my little museum has some info and especially a pics which probably could help.This is an about 125 pieces list below of units I got and most of them already shared on my Soulman Vintage Museum page:   https://www.facebook.com/soulman.vintage Use the search and find what you wanted to look at when you need. Some pedals are still not shared but I suppose it will be done soon too. The list is keeping in the page description and I guess will be complemented:     

Ace Tone FM-2 Fuzz Master '72 Ace Tone FM-3 Fuzz Master '74 ADA Flanger '77 Ampeg SC-1 Scrambler '69 Arbiter Fuzz Face NKT275 '67 Barcus-Berry 1330-1 Standard Pre-Amplifier '75 Barcus-Berry 1330-S Standard Pre-Amplifier '73 Binson Echorec 2 T7E '66 Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble '78 Boss CE-2 Chorus '79 8900 Boss CS-1 Compression Sustainer '78 7300 Boss CS-2 Compression Sustainer '84 382800 Boss DM-2 Delay '82 232700 Boss DS-1 Distortion '78 7600 Boss GE-7 Equalizer '82 202500 Boss GE-7 Equalizer '91 QD31138 Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal '83 371300 Boss OD-1 Over Drive '77 6500 Boss SD-1 Super Over Drive '81 078300 Clark SS-600 fuzz silicon '68 Conn ST-11 StroboTuner '78 Cry Baby Thomas Organ 95-910511 Stack of Dimes '77 Cry Baby Trash Can '60s rebuild Cry Baby VOX Clyde McCoy pictured 1809 '67 Cry Baby VOX Clyde McCoy pictured 6779 '67 Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face BC108C '72 Dallas Arbiter Trem Face '71 DeArmond 600 Volume Pedal '53 DeArmond 601 Tremolo Control '48 DigiTech WH1 Whammy Pedal '91 DOD Overdrive Preamp 250 '79 DOD Overdrive Preamp 250 upgraded to '77 Echoplex EP-1 468 '64 EHX Big Muff V1 Triangle '72 EHX Big Muff V2 Ram's Head '74 EHX Electric Mistress V2 '76 EHX Hot Tubes '78 EHX Memory Man Deluxe '79 EHX Small Clone EH 4600 Mini-Chorus '82 EHX Small Stone Phase Shifter '75 Expandora EXP-2000 Bixonic '95 Fender Blender '69 Fender Fuzz-Wah '69 Fender Reverb 6G15 '63 Foxx Tone Machine '70s Gibson GA-4RE Reverb-Echo '66 Gibson Maestro BG-2 Boomer 2 8374 '68 Gibson Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz Tone 2612 '62 Gibson Maestro FZ-1A Fuzz Tone 14000 '66 Gretsch Controfuzz '73 HR Enver Distortion '02 HR Enver Fuzz '02 HR Enver Tube Screamer '02 HR SWC-2 Switcher-Comparer '18 Ibanez No.59 Standard Fuzz '74 Ibanez Overdrive OD-850 '75 Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer '84 Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer '95 Ibanez TS-808 Tube Screamer Overdrive Pro '80 Ibanez WH-10 wah '91 Klemt Echolette S NG51 '63 Klon Centaur 713 '94 Maxon D&S '76 Maxon D&S II '78 Maxon OD-9 Overdrive '81 Maxon OD-801 D&S '80 Maxon OD-808 Overdrive '79 Maxon OD-880 OverDrive Soft Distortion '76 Maxon ST-9 Super Tube Screamer '83 Morley MOD-ABY Switcher '80s Morley MOD-AER Deluxe Analog Echo Reverb '82 Morley MOD-DDB Deluxe Distortion '80 Morley MOD-SCV Stereo Chorus Vibrato '81 Morley PWA Auto Wah '78 Morley PWF Power Wah Fuzz '75 Morley RFS-1 Footswitch '80s Mosrite Fuzzrite V1 germ '66 Mosrite Fuzzrite V2 silicon '68 Mu-Tron III '74 with PS-1 Mu-Tron Octave Divider '77 Mu-Tron Phasor '75 Mu-Tron Phasor II '77 MXR Blue Box BUD '74 MXR Distortion + BUD '74 MXR Distortion II '82 MXR Dyna Comp BUD '74 MXR Micro Amp '80 MXR Phase 45 BUD '74 MXR Phase 90 BUD '74 MXR Phase 100 '75 Pro Co The Rat '82 Roger Mayer Fuzz Face '86 Roger Mayer Octavia '79 Roland AF-60 Bee Gee '75 Roland AS-1 Sustainer '76 Sam Ash Fuzzz Boxx '67 Schaller Fuzz germ '60s Schaller Universal-Fußpedal '69 Shin Ei FY-2 Fuzz Box silicon '76 Shin Ei JAX Fuzz Wah FW-8 '73 Shin Ei Uni Fuzz '69 Shin Ei Uni Vibe '72 Shin Ei Univox Super-Fuzz U-1093 '60s Shin Ei Univox Super-Fuzz U-1095 '72 Tone Bender Jumbo '76 Tone Bender MK4 '71 Tribute Buzzaround Tribute Colorsound PowerBoost Tribute Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster Tribute Fuzz Face NKT275 Tribute Marshall Supa Fuzz mk1 Tribute Marshall Supa Fuzz mk2 Tribute Octavio Tribute Selmer Buzz Tone Tribute Shatterbox Tribute the Zonk Machine MK1 Tribute Tone Bender MK1 wooden box Tribute Tone Bender MK1.5 Tribute Tone Bender MK2 Pro Tribute Tone Bender MK3 Rotosound Tribute WEM Pep Box Tube Driver BK Butler '87 Tube Driver Chandler '88 Watkins Copicat mk2 '61 Yamaha MBD-20M Multiband Distortion '88 “

documeted in very clean pictures: /soulman.vintage/photos

cred: facebook.com/soulman.vintage

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Colorsound - Tone Bender Jumbo

"1978 ... rare Chrome finish! With (4) Silicon transistors”

cred: reverb.com/SOUNDSPACE