New Non-BOSS Pedals

[Luke Drifter]

Muffs are my favourite fuzzes to muck around with at home

and my least favourite live (they just don't cut through reliably enough)

[bigtone23]

I have three Muffs: '74 V2 (Rams Head), '78 V4 (Op Amp) and '84 V6 (Tone Bypass). Bypassing the tone control certainly lessens the mid scoop.
The Rams Head is also not as scoopy and smoother than the other two, it's my favorite. In the 90s, I used to run the Rams Head into a 72 OR-120 and 73 Orange 4x12" cab with Mesa MC90s or a 87 Silver Jubilee 4x12" with the Marshall "Vintage" speakers (before they were called Vintage 30s). It was massive and did manage to poke through with a band, let alone just annihilate the band!

[laurie]

Picked up a trio of "7" series Ibanez pedals today. DE7, CF7 and TS7. USD$105 for the lot.

[fernieite]

Picked up a trio of "7" series Ibanez pedals today. DE7, CF7 and TS7. USD$105 for the lot.

Damn, that's a great score!
I miss living in Calgary.

[laurie]

After a quick clean. They are almost perfect. Sound good too!

The TS7 had a bunch of dry joints. The lead-free solder had cracked around a number of component legs. Pulled it apart and re-flowed anything that looked dodgy. All good now.

These pedals are "needlessly complicated" inside. Waaay too many screws, little brackets, plug-and-socket connections.

I kinda wish I'd kept the "Lo-Fi" and "Weeping Demon" pedals from the same series...
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[bigtone23]

Picked up a trio of "7" series Ibanez pedals today. DE7, CF7 and TS7. USD$105 for the lot.

That is a score! The DE7 alone is worth more than that. The Tone-Loks do have that cool option to use them in a pretty standard, middle-of-the-road mode or in a wacked out mode with the flip of a switch.
I had a short stint on putting together a 7 series/Tone-Lok pedalboard with their TLC 3-pedal case (much like the BCB3).
I came across a stupid cheap deal on that case loaded with a PD7 Phat Hed overdrive and CF7 Chorus/Flanger. Wanted to complete it with a DE7 delay as it gets some pretty high praise. No dice. IF the delay came up for sale, it was insanely priced-$200+. After several months, I gave up, flipped the pedals and case and reset my focus on BOSS, haha.

[laurie]

I think the reason they were so reasonably priced was the TS7. With the dry joints it passed signal but it was unusable because of the random noise. Based on that I suspect that the previous owner thought all the pedals would be dodgy.

The TS7 was the only one that needed any work. With a thorough inspection and test, there were no dry joints or any other issues found with the other two.

[Pepe]

Fantastic deal!

[Sinom]

Picked up a Marshall GV-2 Plus for about 50 quid equivalent. Difficult to find in Thailand. Will use it as a drive on a Fender Junior.

[Pepe]

Those Marshall drive pedals are becoming more and more expensive since they were discontinued. The Jackhammer was only around 25 EUR on the used market a few years ago. Now is the right time to find some decent duplicates to store them away, lean back and enjoy the insane price development during the next ten or twenty years.