"How Oldskool pedals became my passion"
"The Quest for the ultimate Fuzz"
I have Playing guitar from the age 15 years onwards. My first electric guitar I bought from a friend, a 1969 Fender Telecaster blonde, rosewoord fretboard and modded with a DiMarzio neck pickup. I still regret that I have traded it for a CIMAR Stratocaster clone...
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After I finished my Highschool I graduated in Electronics, in that time still combined analog, digital technologies inclusive software...
I worked in a local musical instrument shop "Arnolds Deal" next to my study selling gear and doing some repair work.
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After some years of slowing down guitar playing and focussing on my regular job as a electronics/software engineer. I started repairing pedals on request of a friend, Paul Lenders. He started his own business, Paul Lenders GuitarSystems, in 2000. After a few reapairs I became bored with it and was looking for something more challeging and rewarding. Browsing on the internet I came accross the Analogman Beano Boost Treblebooster. It attracted me because of the simplicity of the concept. The core of it is based on a single germanium transistor surrounded by only a few passive components. Basically it is a clone of the 1965 Dallas Rangemaster. This started my search for germanium transistors on Ebay. I found some that gave a good result in the Rangemaster setup.
My quest for germanium transistors started in 2007 and resulted in having gathered New Old Stock germanium transistors of various types from Mullard/Philips OC44, OC71, OC75 to AC125, AC128 and AC176. Also various NOS Russian transistors like MP21, GT308 and P27 are amongst the stock I have build.
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Book Analogman
Keeley Javaboost
Vintage pedals
Transistors
Links to inspirators
Established in 2007
Handcrafted
Making the world a fuzzier place... fuzzcentral
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