XPEWT4 - Christmas Pedal Exchange World Tour 4

[sclitheroe]

Oh, that might be an octaver or something similar that forces you to play monophonic melody lines?

You're overthinking it

[laurie]

It's not covering up any lack of technique on my part. That's probably a huge clue, but we got a lot of pedals to get through

OK. So it is a "transparent" something or other.

A "vintage" LauriePedals FA-1 clone?

[sclitheroe]

It's not covering up any lack of technique on my part. That's probably a huge clue, but we got a lot of pedals to get through

OK. So it is a "transparent" something or other.

A "vintage" LauriePedals FA-1 clone?

You are correct!

January 2009, serial number 00104, to be exact.

Pretty awesome in my opinion, and with a planned pedalboard teardown and rebuild this holiday, I'm going to slot this thing in.

I'm super happy to be adding this pedal to my collection, it made my holidays!

[laurie]

Holy crap! That was essentially me being a narcissistic troll... wow.

00104 is from late 2008 (dated 2009 when it shipped). It was the first batch of pedals ever for me. Build isn't as tidy as the 32-OD (13 years of practice will do that...), but the function is completely authentic FA-1.

[Pepe]

We need a picture of that "vintage" pedal!
I didn't know that Dirk had one of these. I only knew of a later HZD Boost model.


Admin received a pedal from fuzzbuzzfuzz

chromandre received a pedal from ?

Dirk received a pedal with non standard shape, 3 knobs, 2 switches and non standard power supply from Pepe

fuzzbuzzfuzz received a pedal from ?

Joske Turbo

laurie received a vintage DOD Studio Bifet Preamp 410 from Jeremy
guessed by: chromandre

Luke Drifter

Pepe received a pedal from sclitheroe

sclitheroe received a LauriePedals FA-1 clone from Dirk
guessed by: laurie

[sclitheroe]

Holy crap! That was essentially me being a narcissistic troll... wow.

00104 is from late 2008 (dated 2009 when it shipped). It was the first batch of pedals ever for me. Build isn't as tidy as the 32-OD (13 years of practice will do that...), but the function is completely authentic FA-1.

I was actually going to comment on that - your soldering has come a long way over the years, as has your general builds - bits of foam labelled "battery end" and a note to "ensure board is correctly seated" are .... quaint

I can post up some pics if people are interested.

I am super happy to have it, and grateful that Dirk parted with it - I was shocked when I opened it up and realized what I had.

[laurie]

This is a picture of that batch, taken January ‎3, ‎2009. Your pedal is one of these...
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[Dirk]

I didn't know that Dirk had one of these. I only knew of a later HZD Boost model.

This is why it's no fair guessing against Pepe with this, he's keeping score of everybody's pedals.
You must have huge lists!

I believe I got the FA-1 clone from Laurie himself along with the Ibanez flanger a couple of years ago.

[Dirk]

I am super happy to have it, and grateful that Dirk parted with it

You're quite welcome.

[Dirk]

Now, how about mine?

I'll add a clue: it has quite a sinister character, almost