from an ebay add : http://cgi.ebay.de/FM-Acoustics-Guitar-Fuzz-Filter-Tremolo-VINTAGE-RAR_W0QQitemZ260073567678QQihZ016QQcategoryZ22525QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
rare indeed, never heard about it, serial n°100, does someone posess one of these beasts?
curious? the swiss based fm acoustics factory is internationally renowned for making the best amplifier and purest souding audio gear !!! and they made a distorsion box too !!! Those swiss are totally nuts ?
(buy this and post pics and samples, anyone?)
The pictures and descriptions remind me a lot of the Ludwig Phase IV, which I did reverse.
cool, april 2nd is my birthday. ;D
more info gathered on the web about this company : some musicians use their power amps, so you could use one mono class a head (called the 800a in 1975) and this fuzz... thing (because the amp won't ever distort...) and you'll get a complete (& vintage) swiss-made rig!
oh by the way price tag for a brand new 111 mono head : 39 000 $, sweet !
some cool vintage pics (late 70 early 80's i'd say) on their official page:
(http://www.fmacoustics.com/pictures/prod2x.jpg)
Girl with in red stockings managing 2 Megas of spare parts
(http://www.fmacoustics.com/pictures/prod3x.jpg)
swiss workbenches, empty clean.
(http://www.fmacoustics.com/pictures/prod8x.jpg)
another girl is "listening" to transistor noise through a pair of giant earphones...
(http://www.fmacoustics.com/pictures/prod9x.jpg)
same test bench but now a guy, this fellow proletarian is the "pot-tester", cool...
(http://www.fmacoustics.com/pictures/prod7x.jpg)
fish eye view of a girl mounting power transitors on radiators, wow hardcore.
(i know, i'm sick)
Cool pics.
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Jimbo
Girls who work on electronics are kinda hot.