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Laurie
Double Platinum Member
Canada
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 Posted - 06/02/2008 : 00:39:46
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Just picked this up for $40. It's a 1987 black-face with LM308N chip. 
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jack
Platinum Member
USA
1418 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2008 : 01:34:56
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Nice score  |
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bosshog
Silver Member
Canada
493 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2008 : 06:00:17
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| maybe needs some TLC & Qtips!... |
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Dr. Bob
Moderator
Australia
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Posted - 06/02/2008 : 10:07:11
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Hi Laurie
Congrats.
That might be "Lucky Dust", under the knobs, with special acoustic properties.  from the early 80's
Looks in really great condition.
Who would have believed we would be drooling over a pedal that uses an LM308N.
When these IC's were new & modern, (sowing my age again)
We tried to steer clear of using such a crappy performance Op-Amp.
You even need to use a compensation cap across pins 1? & 8?, to stop it self oscillating to death at around 50MHz plus.
Now we all want one....
BTW, what's the date code on the IC.
Regards Dr. Bob |
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ChristoMephisto
Platinum Member
Canada
1288 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2008 : 11:17:21
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Nice score there Laurie,
Dust and cobwebs are musicians secret weapons
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Laurie
Double Platinum Member
Canada
4854 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2008 : 13:55:02
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quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Bob
Hi Laurie
Congrats.
That might be "Lucky Dust", under the knobs, with special acoustic properties. from the early 80's
Looks in really great condition.
Who would have believed we would be drooling over a pedal that uses an LM308N.
When these IC's were new & modern, (sowing my age again)
We tried to steer clear of using such a crappy performance Op-Amp.
You even need to use a compensation cap across pins 1? & 8?, to stop it self oscillating to death at around 50MHz plus.
Now we all want one....
BTW, what's the date code on the IC.
Regards Dr. Bob
Date code is 86 on the IC, and 87 on the pots. Just posted a pic of the internals above.
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Edited by - Laurie on 06/02/2008 13:55:17 |
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kidcheesyriffs
Copper Member
USA
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Posted - 06/02/2008 : 20:53:46
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Wow, that's fantastic. I'd love to be lucky enough to just find an '80's proco rat. Finding one for $40 is double icing on the cake.  |
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
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Posted - 06/02/2008 : 22:17:35
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Jeff Beck used on for a while...and of course the band Blur,graham coxton used one on song 2... you can see him in the vid for the song jumping on it for the heavy part...... nice find..... |
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Vintage RAT distortion
