Gasalcoholics anonymous? whoever said this was a help group?

[dubkitty]

I've been needing a Tone Bender for awhile now...the EQD one i have has so much gain that i literally have to set the volume knob within the first 3mm of the range. so i found a nice clean build on Reverb for. $65 and snapped it right up.

https://reverb.com/item/35825684-tone-b ... t=35825684

[qersty]

I've been needing a Tone Bender for awhile now...the EQD one i have has so much gain that i literally have to set the volume knob within the first 3mm of the range. so i found a nice clean build on Reverb for. $65 and snapped it right up.

https://reverb.com/item/35825684-tone-b ... t=35825684

those are weird looking transistors. i love it!

[Paul_C]

The seller of the Judder also has* a Drolo Stamme[n] V3 for sale.




*had, we did a deal.

[cosmicevan]

I think this is like a proto or a very early version. This one is numbered 00 and I got it from someone who was clearing out a collection of some relatively old pedals.

I think it's maybe from around 2015-2016. I did not pay much attention to all this for a good while so could be very wrong too! (I was buying too much gear, too quickly so I distanced myself from forums for a few years)

From what I remember the first picture of this pedal Nick (the man behind Dunwich) ever shared here was in a raw 1590DD enclosure. He took the pic with the pedal sitting on his thigh, that was in June or July 2012. I remember it well, the thing was massive, it was dwarfing his leg (that's what she said...)

He went on to build one for Ryan@Dr Sci. around Oct. 2012 and then maybe another 1 or 2 for some other folk before he did small runs of his pedals. All these runs were built by Magic, while Nick was concentrating on amps, custom stuff, and R&D. The runs started in 2013 with the Wizard Fuzz (large enclosure similar to his early pic from 2012 but white) and the Cthulhu Fuzz (one knobber in a white 1590BB enclosure). That's when I got my WF.

Through time, the size of the Wizard Fuzz shrunk. It looks like every modification of the circuit to make if fit within a smaller enclosure led to a prototype (#000). You have the 1590BB one. In this one, the circuit was identical to the 1590DD model, but subsequent versions were slightly different.

Nick could not fit the 12 position rotary switch in smaller enclosures and some runs of smaller size pedals have a 6 position switch instead. When he eventually managed to fit the circuit in a 125B enclosure (between 2017 and Dec. 2019 when he stopped Dunwich), the rotary switch was replaced with a continuous pot (no positions anymore), at that point he also added a Blend.
Aesthetically, the wizard face was dropped went he built the pedal in anything smaller than the 1590BB size and was replaced with a wizard on a horse on the edge of a cliff.

The proto (#000) of the 125B size ones was on Reverb in Nov. last year:


Not that all this matters really, just a trip down memory lane... I like this builder, he was posting a lot here and had a lot of cool ideas!

Awesome information! Appreciate it!!! Pedal sounds killer...as does the Riff Filled Land.

[cantremember]

Man I really miss my 125 sized wizard. Such a rad fuzz! If anyone has one they wanna part with hmu!

[manymanyhaha]

Boss SY-1 is in and can't believe I missed this pedal, it's awesome!

EQD Arpanoid on the way, how did I miss this one? Demos look amazing!

[odontophobia]

Boss Slicer delivering tomorrow.

[Dandolin]

I've had lots of fun with the Slicer algo in the GT-001, but I still want to try the OG someday....

[dubkitty]

the Tone Bender rocks. i like it more than my old EQD beyond the excessive gain on the EQD; it has a much broader range of adjustments from mild to apeshit.

[Dandolin]

noice - some of my best sounding fuzzes are from basement hackers and DIYers.

[cosmicevan]

Here! 72 Reissue MIM Telecaster Thinline!!!

[coldbrightsunlight]

nom nom nom

Always liked the look of those, hope you like it!!

[Blood_mountain]

Here! 72 Reissue MIM Telecaster Thinline!!!

I used to have this exact same guitar! It's a good one!

[cantremember]

Picked up a Abominable chaotic evil ned (pedalboard friendly verison) and while I hate the cheesy artwork, its one of the more versatile hm2 pedals I've played. The extra Eq gives it a lot of room to dial in a lot of really fun sounds.

[MrNovember]

I used to own one of those thinline Teles too! It is a good one! I miss that guitar. Well I miss most of the guitars I've sold in the past