XPEWT5 - Christmas Pedal Exchange World Tour 5
- chromandre
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Re: XPEWT5 - Christmas Pedal Exchange World Tour 5
I gotta post this, not just similar to a PH-1r, the guts are basically identical!
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Re: XPEWT5 - Christmas Pedal Exchange World Tour 5
And the PSK does also have that hole in the battery compartment so you have direct access to the trimpot.
- fuzzbuzzfuzz
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Re: XPEWT5 - Christmas Pedal Exchange World Tour 5
That really is astoundingly similar!
Is it Korean or Taiwanese?
I wonder if there was ever a relationship between the factory making the PSK branded units and BOSS, such as subcontracting and the like? Or the shift to Taiwan.
Any date codes on the PSK unit to fit it in the timeline?
Anyway, what a nice pedal!
Is it Korean or Taiwanese?
I wonder if there was ever a relationship between the factory making the PSK branded units and BOSS, such as subcontracting and the like? Or the shift to Taiwan.
Any date codes on the PSK unit to fit it in the timeline?
Anyway, what a nice pedal!
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Re: XPEWT5 - Christmas Pedal Exchange World Tour 5
It's made in Korea. As I already wrote in an e-mail to chromandre I suspect that this was the only way how BOSS pedals were able to step on the South Korean market in the 1980s. In Korea you also weren't able to purchase Nintendo or SEGA products until the late '90s, because of the Anti-Japanese sentiment there. One of the game consoles was sold under a completely different name at a certain point. I think that BOSS supplied PSK with the (slightly altered) Japanese boards and the electronic parts and then it was assembled in Korea in a similarly looking plastic chassis designed by PSK.
So, fuzzbuzzfuzz, supply us with some clues what what under your Christmas tree!
So, fuzzbuzzfuzz, supply us with some clues what what under your Christmas tree!
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Re: XPEWT5 - Christmas Pedal Exchange World Tour 5
I want one of those PSK Phasers (I no longer have any vintage Boss phasers)... I will keep a lookout for one here.
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Re: XPEWT5 - Christmas Pedal Exchange World Tour 5
Me too, kind of bummed I sold my PH-1r years ago.
I remember using it with the bass in a band and it got this really slow low end swoosh and the drummer couldn't figure out
where that sound came from! It was great.
I remember using it with the bass in a band and it got this really slow low end swoosh and the drummer couldn't figure out
where that sound came from! It was great.
- chromandre
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Re: XPEWT5 - Christmas Pedal Exchange World Tour 5
Oddly not many codes to be found , there is a "PSK-0487" on the pot board and "PH-04" on the power jack maybe phaser is the "04" and '87 is the year?fuzzbuzzfuzz wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 1:20 amAny date codes on the PSK unit to fit it in the timeline?
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Oh my, I'd completely forgotten about that!!Pepe wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:17 amIt's made in Korea. As I already wrote in an e-mail to chromandre I suspect that this was the only way how BOSS pedals were able to step on the South Korean market in the 1980s. In Korea you also weren't able to purchase Nintendo or SEGA products until the late '90s, because of the Anti-Japanese sentiment there. One of the game consoles was sold under a completely different name at a certain point. I think that BOSS supplied PSK with the (slightly altered) Japanese boards and the electronic parts and then it was assembled in Korea in a similarly looking plastic chassis designed by PSK.
Great!
So, fuzzbuzzfuzz, supply us with some clues what what under your Christmas tree!
- It's of a primary color reflected in nature and named so.
- Not modulation, get in your car and ________!
Ok should be easy now
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Re: XPEWT5 - Christmas Pedal Exchange World Tour 5
And those PSKS, ooh the Octaver and Chorus! They seem to go for 10,000 yen here plus depending on the sellers, but not many about.
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Re: XPEWT5 - Christmas Pedal Exchange World Tour 5
Hmmmmm ... could it be a BOSS BD-2?