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Very cool. Tempting!

I prefer closed back cabs for the focus and low to low-mid punch.
Open back is nice for unmic'ed gigs where the extra spread around the stage is useful.

I scored my OD1 for $80 a few years ago. It was clearly an older one and had a silver screw. When I got home and opened it up, it was revealed that it had some version of the 4558 chip. I wish it were the previous version with the 3403. Oh well, it was a great deal anyway! I considered the chip and ...

I do love the 80s era Bandits. I have owned around 8 Bandits, Bandit 65, and 90s era Silver Stripe Transtube Bandits. Never paid more than $65 for any of them, and all punched way above their weight class. I would pass them on to a friend who needed an amp and then wait until another came around for...

The original OD1 used a very different chip--a quad op amp RC3403D. Still had the asymmetric diodes and the expected gnarly tone. This version was more dynamic, amp-ish and had more low end vs the later versions. Later versions went to the JRC4558D or other 4558 chips and some smaller caps that cut ...

Nice lookin' pedals! Love my A batch pedal!

No worries at all, Lol :lol: Those are some beauts there Bigtone! How far apart are the manufacture dates on those? I think you may have already said but I don’t remember. I’m really interested in the differences in those Green MIJ caps versus the MIT ones. Seeing yours makes me want to secretly bu...

The early MIT like this one are really no different from MIJ, in my findings. Some are more rare, like a MIT CE1. Your SD1 looks great! My bad, I meant CE-2! I had an 1989 MIT DS1 that sounded exactly like my early 80s MIJ DS1. Opened them up and they were pretty much the same, you could see some d...

The early MIT like this one are really no different from MIJ, in my findings. Some are more rare, like a MIT CE1.

I don't have the hard facts, but I'm sure someone on here does! It seems that the serial numbers migrated out the battery compartment at the very beginning of the MIT era. I have owned MIT with MIJ style battery compartment labels. One early MIT DS1 I had was virtually indistinguishable from my MIJ ...