Yes, this is NOT a wireless system: it is a 1:1 reverse engineering of the audio signal path between the TRANSMITTER (on which the compressor was!) "X10" and the RECEIVER (EX63).garbeaj wrote:Just so I'm following this correctly...this is simply a replica of the sounds brought by the receiver, not an actual wireless system? This is all a regular guitar cord, "wired" system?
The Schaffer-Vega was in fact a "system" comprised of transmitter & receiver, naturally. We had to reverse engineer the signal path between both - including the transmitter (X10) as the transmitter itself was a BIG part of the sound! So our Replica is a faithful integration of both the X10 and the EX63, together into one unit that looks like the receiver (EX63).
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It is a regular guitar cord operated box (input in the front, output in the rear of our box).
It also has a "pedal" to turn the unit on/off, i.e., from stand by (pass through regular cord signal) to ON (compressor/boost on).
PS reason for not doing it wireless? Several ones. First off, we wanted to replicate, reproduce and clone everything as originally made as possible (including the components).
Doing this with the original frequency modulation transmitting/receiving system would have been: illegal, overly expensive (talking about several thousands dollars per unit, as it was back then in 1977). Crazy, unfeasible.
This also being an illegal form of transmissions in many countries would have limited sales etc.
We could "transform it" into a wireless unit in the future, but only keeping the audio circuitry faithfully original to the 1977 counterpart (as it is already now); the wireless part would have to be modern.
