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Building myself a vintage Deluxe Electric Mistress clone

Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2024 1:49 am
by laurie
I've had a Reticon SAD1024 chip in the parts bin for maybe 15 years and looking at the prices people are getting for them these days I thought I might sell it for a satisfying price on Reverb.com.

Unfortunately, I have no SAD1024 based pedals, so can't test it. So I decided to build a test circuit for it. Test it, then sell it as "known good".

And then I thought, if I'm going to that much trouble, I might as well build a whole pedal.

I'm in the process of slowly recreating a vintage Deluxe Electric Mistress (V2):
http://www.metzgerralf.de/elekt/stomp/m ... ematic.gif

I'll let you know how it goes. I sincerely HOPE the SAD1024 is actually OK, and not a dud!

Re: Building myself a vintage Deluxe Electric Mistress clone

Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2024 5:57 am
by Pepe
:ugeek:

Re: Building myself a vintage Deluxe Electric Mistress clone

Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2024 7:50 am
by The_Doc
Good luck Laurie and fingers crossed.

Re: Building myself a vintage Deluxe Electric Mistress clone

Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2024 6:13 am
by bigtone23
All right!
I used to have a 79/80-ish Dlx EM. Cool flange!
Hope the build goes well!

Re: Building myself a vintage Deluxe Electric Mistress clone

Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2024 12:51 pm
by laurie
The build so far ... :lol:
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Re: Building myself a vintage Deluxe Electric Mistress clone

Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2024 6:54 pm
by laurie
Clock circuit breadboarded.
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Re: Building myself a vintage Deluxe Electric Mistress clone

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 12:12 pm
by laurie
Clock circuit rebuilt and tested.
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Re: Building myself a vintage Deluxe Electric Mistress clone

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 1:49 pm
by Pepe
Nice, nice, nice!

Re: Building myself a vintage Deluxe Electric Mistress clone

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2024 9:49 pm
by laurie
Managed to get some basic noise out of the breadboard today. The SAD1024 chip is good. Happy about that!

There are a few bugs to sort out, but it sounds close to being correct.

Re: Building myself a vintage Deluxe Electric Mistress clone

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2024 9:54 pm
by Pepe
Great news! 8-)