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I've just been through this process again... repairing an Ibanez SDGR bass for someone locally. It came to me with "no sound". The SDGR has active electronics - well, kinda. The tone controls are passive and the opamp is used to buffer the pickups and drive the output. The issue was the 10uF output ...

My 30 year old Blues Deluxe is in for a major 100,000 km service at the moment. My guy said the capacitors still are all good and not leaking but that it can only be a matter of time. He said (if I heard him right) that the ones Fender used were cheap horrible ones that probably cost 50 cents if th...

This was a tricky one to solve. Pepe and I went back-and-forth via email for months before I gave up and asked if he could send them. Another one of those times when having the pedal in front of me with the scope was the only way to figure things out. I'm very glad we could piggy-back on the Christm...

Price is a bit eyewatering... looks like a good pedal though.

Yes, I'm really happy with it, especially at that price. :D Another bargain made it to me in the last weeks. An Ibanez Soundtank TS5 Tubescreamer for 14 EUR including shipping. I had to order a new switch (under 2 EUR), because it was faulty. Back to full life again! When I tested it against my bro...

That is a really (really) nice old pedal. Congrats on the purchase, and congrats on the clean-up!

That looks and sounds pretty good! Am very tempted... What did you pay for it?

The Aphex is a nice pedal, but does lack a little feel. I use it mainly to feed my EHX B9 - the B9 needs a relatively constant signal to work well.

Every time I see this topic I think "tech support" ...

I needed a fully isolated supply for my stereo board. The Strymon pedals need isolated power because of the digital hash they inject into the power supply when daisy-chained. . Stereo-board.jpg Tried a few options and ended up with this. It is actually fully isolated, and cheap. About USD$40. It doe...