Quote from: Fret WireSpeaking of laughs, for april fool's day, you could post the schematic for that in the beginner's section :twisted:

No, really  :twisted: would be offering a 'pre-clone' of ZVex's up-and-coming seek trem on ebay on April 1. I had a bit of a play around with a seek-wah-like core hooked up to a 4ms tremulus, and it sounds bloody good actually! Another winner for ZV I'm sure.  

Mike

lol! Or this: offer your new fuzz pedal on eBay and show a picture of the Maxon board to throw off the "cloners".

Would make a great build: 11 IC's, 25 trimpots, and a bottle of Prozac for debugging! :roll:

I'm with Colin,
That things nuts!
All those trim pots are going to be a "long-term"
reliability nightmare.
my 2 cents,
Ed R.

There's so many trimpots on that thing it's almost embarassing :lol:

Quote from: TransmogrifoxAnyone own any Maxon pedals?

I own a Maxon (Caxon?) treble booster from the late 70s/early 80s.  It's supposed to make your guitar scream, but the only thing it ever made scream were the poor sods who had to endure the ear-scorching treble it imparts!

I'd have one of those new ones though, trim pots & all...if it were given to me...Santa, are you listening?

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This ad900 has
2 - 3101
4 - 3008
1- 4558
1 - sa571n
7 - 1815 transistors (though my eyesight is very poor and I can't find my reading glasses)
11 - trim pots

dealing with overengineered stuff all the time at work, this looks fine to me.  Looks like a design based in reality..  i talk to engineers every now and then that are very knowlegable when it comes to theory, but lack the knowlege of real world solutions, and acceptable short cuts, and time savers.

Brian

Quote from: TransmogrifoxAnyone own any Maxon pedals?  They are certainly talked up a bit high in the ads.  

From www.maxonfx.com:
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Q) What is the relationship between Maxon and Ibanez?

A) Nisshin Onpa Company (Maxon) is an audio electronics manufacturer that has been in business since the mid-1960s. In the early 1970's they developed a line of compact guitar effect units and marketed them in Japan (these models are currently available as the Maxon Reissue Series). The Hoshino Trading Company (Ibanez) soon took notice and licensed the designs from Maxon for distribution around the globe under the Ibanez brand name.

From that time up until early 2002 Maxon was responsible for the design and manufacture of many Ibanez products, including the legendary TS808 and TS-9 Tubescreamers, the rare and collectible Flying Pan, and the popular SoundTank series.

Over the years the companies did less and less business together, until the only unit being built by Maxon was the TS-9 Reissue. In early 2002 Maxon ceased manufacture of the TS-9 Reissue for Ibanez and began marketing several of the original Nine Series models under their own Maxon brand name.
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As for the AD- 999 sounding horrible, I wouldn't be so sure of that by just looking at a photo of the board.

Kerry M

Kerry M