Long lost fuzz

Bad Kitty · Post by **Bad Kitty** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:43 am

I've been wondering about this for about 15 years.

Back in me big hair and spandex days I had a fuzz that plugged into a guitar output jack. It was about 4" X 3" X 2" with a switch on it for a bypass. With the volume knob on the guitar turned up it was nothing special but when you turned the volume down to about 6 or 7, MAN, It was the brownest sound around.

Anybody ever hear of such a thing?

It belonged to the bass blayer and when the band broke up I never saw it again

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ampSnob · Post by **ampSnob** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:35 am

Was it one of these? (An electro-harmonix LPB1) As far as I remember when I opened it up many years ago, it's just a one transitor clean boost that gets a little distorted at full volume. The double ended 1/4" jack (in the picture I'm just using one of those pedal connector 'crank' thingies) is supposed to be straight but I couldn't find it for the pic.

If this is it, what was the setup like? Guitar on 7 and amp on ???. What type of guitar and amp?

If you want any more circuit details I could pop it open again and look.

-Clay

Bad Kitty · Post by **Bad Kitty** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:50 pm

No, unfortunatley, that isn't it. The one I'm talking about had a 1/4" plug built into it. It was some off the wall brand name, I want to say Italian but I can't be sure since that period of my life was mostly spent in an alchololic, drug induced haze

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At the time I was playing a prototype Kramer through a Sunn Model T. That guitar was a POS but that amp was pretty cool. I guess Hendrix helped design them.

Bow · Post by **Bow** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:27 pm

was that box you used active or passive?

MacGaden · Post by **MacGaden** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:42 pm

Hendrix did´nt help design Sunn´s. He hated them, and only played them because of an endorsement contract. They blew up all the time..

Did your effect look like these ? :

Bad Kitty · Post by **Bad Kitty** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:31 pm

I stand corrected about the Sunn

. Mine never blow up but it had been through a fire. Knobs were all blistered, tolex peeling, paint blistered. It was quite a sight. Maybe some day I'll get another one just for old times sake. On second thought maybe not, It wasn't that great

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It was active because it used a nine volt. It only had a slide switch on it for a bypass.

Those are close but it was black and the plug was in the middle of one side. Like I said it wasn't a name brand. Thanks for the replies, guys, I really would like to find another one.

You watch, I'll go on the grand search, spend hundreds on it, plug it in and find out it sounds like crap! Like I said before those were foggy daze and the more I drank the better I thought I sounded. I was GREAT

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Later tonight I'll make a 3D rendering of it in 3DS Max. I've got to get to the Post Office right now to check for parts.

Good Guest · Post by **Good Guest** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:32 am

It was an lb-1 ....they were black when they first came out and they were exactly as you describe, however they are based on pedal that did have a differant name...the name of a person I can't remember off hand.

Yer gonna have to locate an old hippy guitar player to find out what that name was and it wasn't dan armstrong.

Bad Kitty · Post by **Bad Kitty** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:57 pm

THAT's IT!!!

Now I remember. Thanks I'll do a search when I get back home.

jan · Post by **jan** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:54 pm

Jordan Bosstone?