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A few weeks ago I bought this wonderful looking vintage Vesta Fire CG-1 Comp/Gate for our dear member fuzzbuzzfuzz. http://www.pepemusic.de/pics/v/vesta_fire_cg-1_01.jpg The seller said that the pedal wouldn't work with 9V power, only with 12V or more. When I received it, I tested it with various po...

Nice!

laurie wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 12, 2026 1:34 am

... I'll do some clips (and send them to pepe?).

Sure! I could upload them on my webspace (mp3 with 320 kbps are a good format).

Swap all the ribbon cables! These have been driving me mad when I was repairing an MZ-2 earlier this year.

The "Fuzz Master" mode was one of the few in the digital BOSS OD-20 that I really, really liked. It had a nice octave-up fuzz sound. I would love to try the original pedal - or a tribute - one day.

I will send it to you. The benefit of having it on your hard disk (over 1.2 GB unzipped) is that you can do an online search with any keywords. For example "Slow Gear" in quotation marks lists up all the threads and pictures with exactly this word combination. Nearly 20 years ago... wow. Even 21 yea...

For anyone interested, I can send the large data package of 10,022 files (560 MB) via WeTransfer.

Our forum veterans might sigh with nostalgia when they see this logo. https://pepemusic.de/bossarea_forum_archive/localhost_8080/logo_bossareaforum.gif Almost six years ago, the owner of the first version of our beloved forum - registered here as "formerly_bossarea" - sent me the backup of the old f...

Great to hear that it is alive again! ... but some of the modes don't work (like Reverse and Lo Fi). The standard modes (with tap tempo) and looper work great, so no need to replace the bypass/tempo switch. As to why some modes don't work, perhaps it's something wrong with the mode rotary switch, pe...

I have two at the moment, one in almost New Old Stock condition with the box, the other one in beat-up shape, that I had to repair (gruesome adventure!). It is a nice pedal. Not my absolute favourite, but it has a few cool sounds.