OLD RUSSIAN BOSS SD-1 to TS9, help please(pics!!!)

[ocg]

Hi,

as I grew up in the former GDR (part of the former Eastern Bloc, for those who don't know) I can assure you that these are pretty common parts used in that pedal for that time and that region - no mojo, nothing special. Funny, that some people always think a metal can trannie must be a always a germanium one. What might they think, if I would post pics of a LM741 in a metal can enclosure. A Ge IC? Judged by the used parts the pedal could be from the second half of the eighties or early nineties. It's a pitty that's such a pain in the ar** to find the datasheets for those russian ICs - I got a whole bunch of them on old eprom-prog-boards made in the GDR in th late 80s.

Regards
Helge

well i have to say that i dont believe in "mojo", i think that the real mojo is in your hands....

mmm so if they are comon parts i think that there is no problem to take this pedal and do a ts9 right?
....maybe im going to use a new board to make a exact copy of the ts9 circuit(NOT true by pass of course) and leave the original PCB of my pedal intact for a future restore project

[kupervaser]

So you have no interest in selling it to me?

[DiscoFreq]

Nice one, do you have pictures of the pedal before it was disassembled?

And is there a brandname somewhere?

I have a lot of Eastern Bloc pedals, this one looks like my Crock pedals (from Ukraine):
http://filters.muziq.be/model/crock/sd2

[kupervaser]

Where di you get them?

How does the SD-2 sound?

[DiscoFreq]

I have to look, I'm not sure where I bought them...

I should make more pictures because I also have the boxes: some kind of compressed styrofoam with colorful labels...

[frank_p]

Nice one, do you have pictures of the pedal before it was disassembled?
And is there a brandname somewhere?
I have a lot of Eastern Bloc pedals, this one looks like my Crock pedals (from Ukraine):
http://filters.muziq.be/model/crock/sd2

Does that company still exist ?  I have some family members in Ukraine.  Maybe they could pick some up...

Thanks

[DiscoFreq]

No, I don't think it still exists.

There is one company Ukranian that makes pedals now:
http://filters.muziq.be/model/maximumacoustics


edit1:
I just noticed their homepage is gone now (default hosting provider page), but the domain is still registered, so maybe it's only temporary...

edit2:
for other Eastern Bloc or geographic searches: since a few months you can navigate the brands by country:
http://filters.muziq.be/country

The brands are grouped by the location of the brand owner, not where the pedals are made (that's not possible on the brand level as they often manufactured different series in different countries or even specific models in different countries)

[frank_p]

Okay Bart, thanks for the information.
I am going to look at that. 

[WLTerry]

Hey ocg, dude... bring that little jewel to my home some saturday afternoon and let's reverse-engineering it  , remember we are in the same country. And after figure it out, let's share it to the comunity.

Will

[German]

Lol, and in Russia units like this one goes to trash(everything, exepting enclosure/jack's/pots)
Becose all components are trash.
Building a new TS-9 copy with new, good, quality parts will make a deal for you, trust me.

[ocg]

Seriously, if you mod that thing I'm coming to wherever you live and clobbering you!   

I've really never seen anything like that before, can you post a pic of the back plate?

......., here are the pics:



aha, 11/89.......¿Cmpam? ...anybody who can translate that please?

[German]

No. Here is translation:
|k| Cmapm - |k| Start
---------------------------------
The pedal, represents full analogue
of popular working out(device), in the professional musical environment,
of the Japanese firm Roland.
We desire creative successes.
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City: Rovno
blah..blah..

[kupervaser]

ahah cool, it's a Ukrainian pedal. Rovno or Rivne is in Ukrain.