thoughts on BF-2 mod kits?
- chromandre
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thoughts on BF-2 mod kits?
have you / would you ever do any of these?
https://fromelelectronics.com/products/bf2-mods
https://www.monteallums.com/pedal_mods_BF2.html
I have a vintage BF-2 I'm wondering if it needs the cap upgrade for starters I don't like the flashing LED stuff personally
https://fromelelectronics.com/products/bf2-mods
https://www.monteallums.com/pedal_mods_BF2.html
I have a vintage BF-2 I'm wondering if it needs the cap upgrade for starters I don't like the flashing LED stuff personally
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Re: thoughts on BF-2 mod kits?
I'm not sure the BF-2 really needs any mods. A lot of the descriptions sound like marketing-speak, not actually fixing a real problem.
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Re: thoughts on BF-2 mod kits?
No - not unless one of them has actually failed. It will lose character.
- chromandre
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Re: thoughts on BF-2 mod kits?
sweet, well I'm just gonna hang tight and enjoy a vintage BF-2 in that case! thankslaurie wrote: ↑Tue Jun 28, 2022 11:34 pmNo - not unless one of them has actually failed. It will lose character.
Re: thoughts on BF-2 mod kits?
I agree with Laurie. The BF2 really doesn't need mods. It's thing is that brighter flange tone (which I find glorious in front of the drives/distortions). There are other flanges out there if one wants a different tone. I have a 78 ADA and 78 Electric Mistress for those other flange sounds.
I would like to mod the LED so it pulses with the modulation speed, though. I kinda like that aspect. My modded CE2B does that.
I would like to mod the LED so it pulses with the modulation speed, though. I kinda like that aspect. My modded CE2B does that.
Re: thoughts on BF-2 mod kits?
I like my Boss pedals ‘au naturel’!
- fuzzbuzzfuzz
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Re: thoughts on BF-2 mod kits?
Replacing the caps (in theory) would bring it back to how it sounded "as new", but of course we do quite like the darker, duller, murkier tones that a few decades has put on them age wise, mojo!
For some other units the mods can be quite useful (GE-7 operational noise etc., TR-2 rate/led mod). I don't really recall any complaints regarding the original BF-2. Robert Smith/Graham Coxon in a box
For a different vibe perhaps save the mod money and invest in a HF-2
For some other units the mods can be quite useful (GE-7 operational noise etc., TR-2 rate/led mod). I don't really recall any complaints regarding the original BF-2. Robert Smith/Graham Coxon in a box
For a different vibe perhaps save the mod money and invest in a HF-2
- chromandre
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Re: thoughts on BF-2 mod kits?
I was actually looking at it, the schematics are identical might be able to socket the MN3207 and drop in a MN3204 to make it a HF-2. unless there is some other complication I'm unaware of, like the biasing needs to be reset, I wonder if there is some way to hot swap them with a switchfuzzbuzzfuzz wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 7:30 amFor a different vibe perhaps save the mod money and invest in a HF-2
Re: thoughts on BF-2 mod kits?
I've always thought that would be a good idea for a BF-2w.chromandre wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:57 pmI wonder if there is some way to hot swap them with a switch