SOLD: One last 32TB2 Tonebender for sale
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:35 am
G'day!
Buried in the bin full of stuff I use for prototyping was a transistor that I must have been using to prototype fuzz pedals over 10 years ago - back when I was designing the DingoTone GHF and VFZ. It had the wrong gain for a fuzzface, so it just sat in the bottom of the box for 10+ years.
I fished it out and it has a gain of 102. Perfect for a Tonebender Q3. It would have come from Small Bear and it will be Chinese manufacture. The model is rubbed off, and IIRC it didn't mean anything anyway.
So I can build one last 32TB2 with:
Q1 - Russian MP16B, gain of close to 70
Q2 - Russian MP16B, gain of close to 70
Q3 - Chinese PNP, type unknown, gain of 102
I've used these Chinese transistors in the VFZ and a couple of early GHF pedals, and they sound good. So while this last pedal won't be identical to the other nine, it will still be a good pedal.
Color will be your choice of yellow or a much darker metallic than the other metallic 32TB2 pedals. No... it's yellow.
So this really is the very last 32TB2 pedal if anyone is interested? CAD$120 plus your choice of shipping.
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Buried in the bin full of stuff I use for prototyping was a transistor that I must have been using to prototype fuzz pedals over 10 years ago - back when I was designing the DingoTone GHF and VFZ. It had the wrong gain for a fuzzface, so it just sat in the bottom of the box for 10+ years.
I fished it out and it has a gain of 102. Perfect for a Tonebender Q3. It would have come from Small Bear and it will be Chinese manufacture. The model is rubbed off, and IIRC it didn't mean anything anyway.
So I can build one last 32TB2 with:
Q1 - Russian MP16B, gain of close to 70
Q2 - Russian MP16B, gain of close to 70
Q3 - Chinese PNP, type unknown, gain of 102
I've used these Chinese transistors in the VFZ and a couple of early GHF pedals, and they sound good. So while this last pedal won't be identical to the other nine, it will still be a good pedal.
Color will be your choice of yellow or a much darker metallic than the other metallic 32TB2 pedals. No... it's yellow.
So this really is the very last 32TB2 pedal if anyone is interested? CAD$120 plus your choice of shipping.
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