Soulman Vintage Museum

Ibanez Overdrive OD-850 ‘75.

Certainly it’s not an overdrive at all. This is a clone of Big M**f.
4x Matsush*ta SC828 Q-gain range transistors are hiding here.

Ibanez Phaser Tone II ‘76.

Model II has 2 k***s instead one which has a model 1.
It has two TI SN72L022P IC’s and one 741TC.

How often do you use phasers in your setup?

Maxon OD-880 OverDrive Soft Distortion ‘76.

Really a soft one. Soft and warm.
Based on 3x Motorola MC1741CP opamps and two Toshiba 1S1588 diodes.

Tube Driver Chandler ‘88.

Later Tube Driver version labeled as a Chandler only.
Very different inside design (pcb especially) but has the same Motorola MC4558CP IC and even the same long-plate Ei Yugoslavian ECC83 tube labeled as Ei btw, not as Chandler in the B.K. Butler previous original pedal.

It sounds very close to the B.K. Butler Tube Driver but a bit different.

An improvement it has — the transformer was took off outside the enclosure for less noise purposes.

Tube Driver BK Butler ‘87.

Motorola MC4558CP IC.
Long-plate Ei Yugoslavian ECC83 tube.
A famous one! ✌️

Ampeg SC-1 Scrambler ‘69.

This is a famous Ampeg aluminum cast monster here.
The brutal octave fuzz is hidden inside a massive brick of resin named Scrambler Module.

Gretsch Controfuzz ‘73.

This is not a fuzz or distortion as we used to hear.
It’s more a booster with an option of adding to the clean signal distortion in anti-phase.

A quite special pedal.

Roland AD-50 Double Beat ‘78.

It has a weird enclosure shape firstly.
And it has a quite nice fuzz charged with three 2SC1000 transistors and three different output filters on board.
And finally it has a familiar WAH designed on 2SC1000 and 2SC828 transistors plus 500mH inductor.
It was a little bit hot at the spot back then. 😇

Shin Ei Fuzz Wah FW-8 ‘73 under the JAX logo.

Consists of FY-6 type fuzz and a traditional two transistors wah.

8x Matsush*ta 2SC828 transistors we got here.

Was in pretty bad condition including one nearly dead transistor and a bunch of leaky caps but now it’s got a second life.

Morley PWF Power Wah Fuzz ‘75.

1.4mm thick steel sheet heavy enclosure.
Optical operating Volume and WAH.
Adjustable silicon fuzz.
An awesome blue pcb inside.

Octavia ‘79 by Roger Mayer.

Unique rocket enclosure early version with optical switch.
12 transistors on board this octave fuzz unit.

The Tone Color k**b (which may be called Drive, Fuzz or something else) works in reverse.

Ibanez WH-10 wah ‘91.

This is the earliest V1 version.
Weird plastic fragile housing but anyway known and decent pedal with extremely high output volume.

It contains LM358 ic, two 2SC1815 and four 2SK30 transistors.
It has double gang 50K+500K pot as a wah pot and a separate “Depth” pot either.

Roger Mayer Rocket Fuzz Face ‘86.

A nice interpretation of famous germanium Fuzz Face by famous Master.
This was made on OBEL AC128 transistors then modded with modern OC44 and finally reverted to AC128 UK made old ones by us.

Values of caps and resistors are different with an usual set of the original Arbiter Fuzz Face but it was necessary to bias a whole unit using not fabulous NKT275’s and mister Mayer seen how it should sound in his own way.

Guyatone FS-6 Sustainer ‘73 fuzz.

This is a quite nice Big M**f inspired fuzz but in the Fuzz Face style of shell.

Unlike the Big M**f it has only three stages and the first one is a FET labeled as K44AY. Two others silicon transistors labeled 536FV.
It has two couples of diodes different models either.

Morley PWA Auto Wah ‘78.

Got a wide adjustable Auto WAH function and a WAH working simultaneously with a Volume.

Fender Fuzz Wah ‘69.

A nice heavy and plated steel shiny enclosure we got here.
Its silicon fuzz charged with two 2N2924 transistors and a couple of diodes.
The wah part has three germanium 2N404A GE transistors.
It has a volume setting option as well.
All the mechanics organized by ropes.

Shin Ei FY-2 Fuzz Box Tempo branded germanium ‘68.

Power on/off switch on the volume pot with aluminum k***s.
It was made using Toshiba 2SB56 germ transistors, carbon resistors, one mylar and three electrolytic caps.

This is a really another sounding fuzz in comparison with a silicon FY-2 which has a sharp output filter. The germanium one is very loud in contrast with its silicon brother.

Shin Ei FY-2 Fuzz Box silicon ‘77.

Crazy weird sounding fuzz because of its sharp filter before the output.
Contains two 2SC536 silicon transistors, some old Matsush*ta caps and carbon resistors.

This is the second generation of the FY-2 family. The first one was a germanium.

A little addition to the FY6 type of fuzzes.
Some of them have a balancing trimpot to get off noise and make an octave sound better.
Here you can hear and see how it works.
This trimpot compensates a gain difference between Q4 and Q5 transistors which actually makes an octave sound here.
If you version has no this trimpot the biasing could be done with an accurate selecting a resistors pair in these transistors circuit.

Univox Superfuzz U-1095 ‘72.
Shin Ei actually.
Charged with 537Ge labeled transistors instead usual for many Shin-Ei production Matsush*ta 2SC828.
Also it has 1N34A diodes and the balancing trimpot for octave adjustment. Thanks to this decision you no longer need to match a pair of Q4 and Q5 transistors to avoid noise and get a nice octave sound.

Japanese switches have a “dirty problem” too. Years…
Fixed Shin Ei Univox Super-Fuzz U-1095 ‘72.
Hope the sound clip with this beast comes soon. ✌️

Shin Ei Uni Fuzz ‘69.
FY6 family octave fuzz made with five Matsush*ta 2SC828 and one metal can 2SC539 transistors.
A charming one!

Schaller Universal-Fußpedal ‘69.
Tremolo • Fuzz • Volume
• Thick aluminum cast enclosure with two pedals hammered painted.
• ATES AC192 & Siemens AC177 germ transistors.
• Siemens caps.
• Beautiful Western Germany wiring.
• Marquardt switches.

EHX Little M**f ‘70s.
It’s a very nice simple fuzz based on two infamous FS3666 transistors with additional code 222. And only a couple of diodes.
Smooth sounding fuzz with only one k**b “Volume”.

EHX Little M**f ‘70s power switch fixing time. 🎃

Telecaster switch tip barrel type was loose in the slot and fixed using an aluminum stripe cut from beer can. 🤪
But it’s working great! ✌️

Two Foxx Tone Machines. One using as octave off and one as octave on.
In fact they are different beasts even with the similar settings because of their different transitions.
One has 2N3565’s and another one has NPC3565. Looks like they are 3565-ish both but different manufacturers, form factor and different sound behavior in result.

Navigator N-ST-ALR ‘14 Strat.

Body • Alder (Thickness 45mm)
Neck • Hard Maple
Grip shape • U
Fingerboard • Honduras Rosewood
Radius • 240R
Scale • 648mm
Nut (width) • Unbleached Bone (42mm)
Frets • JESCAR FW50078-NS
Inlays • Clay Dot
Tuners • GOTOH SD91-05M
Pickups • Seymour Duncan ANTIQUITY II "Surfer"
Bridge • GOTOH GE101TS (Iron block)
Pots • CTS
Tremolo arm • Fender shorter vintage style
Saddles • RAW Vintage
Tremolo springs • RAW Vintage

Small Stone Phase Shifter by EHX.
1975 year of born.

Here are six metal case IC’s CA3094AT which usually were common plastic later.
Also it has one known FS36999 transistor often used in Big M**f’s.
The second transistor is 2N5087.

Recorded with Foxx Tone Machine NPC3565 ‘70s, Fender Reverb 6G15 ‘63, EHX Memory Man Deluxe ‘79, Fender Champ 5F1 ‘62.

Another one switch was fixed to work next fifty years 🙂
Small Stone Phase Shifter ‘75 by EHX.