ibanez ts7 questions...

[Brian Marshall]

anyone familiar with these.  i have two of them, and they are sort of hard to trace, because they use the boards for a lot of different pedals, and there are 4 different boards in the pedal, and lots of wires jumping arround.  most of the main board is blank.

As far as i can tell everything is on the main board from the input .027 input cap (actually a .02 in the ts7) to the 510k bias resistor just before the output transistor are all on the main bottom board.

The top board as far as i can tell is just for swithing, and everything beyond the output transistor is on the output board.

Anyone ever try to make an 808 clone out of one of these, and re-box it?

[Peter Snowberg]

Everything you want and more can be found here:

http://www.geofex.com/Article_Folders/TStech/tsxfram.htm

Hats off to R.G.!

[Brian Marshall]

yeah, i've read that 100 times.  I want to know how easy it is to get this thing out of its original box...  it is built on 4 different boards with lots of jumpers.... very confusing :cry: for me anyways.  

That article barely even mentions (if at all)  the ts7 anyways.

[BD13UK]

These are a bit of a nuisance to take apart because of the extra boards etc but if you just remember where everything goes you'll be ok, i've taken one apart a couple of times and it's fairly simple, don't understand why they made them so awkward with separate input and output jacks etc. there are one or two difficult to get at screws as well.

[Brian Marshall]

i think i know exactly why they have 5 boards in there.

the input, and outout boards are common to all of them....

Also they are built by machines.  that's why everything is pcb mounted.

and to be honnest if these things didnt have such horrible problems with their switches, and were more interesting visually they would OWN the lower, and middle part of the market. But i guess they somehow got a great deal on 1000000000 gallons of gray paint, and 1000000000 crappy switches.

Brian

[brett]

Hi fellow Ts-7 owner.  Unfortunately, I can't offer advice on taking it apart.  To get classic TS-9 tone, I built the TS-9 clone at Tonepad, and whacked an NE5532 chip in it (far better than any of the 4558 chips in my multi-chip shootout!)

I still use my TS-7 in "hot" mode for some edgy, hi-gain playing, but otherwise I use the TS-9 or my VoodooDrive - one of my own designs.

[Brian Marshall]

ive already figured this out.  i need to replace a couple of caps resistors, and one trany. and build the the output buffer.  The ts7's alread have th jrc4558d chip in them which a lot of people use for TS9 mods.

Then i can use the one board, and put it in a box with a 3pdt switch, and not wory about the switch....