someone upped this on "another" forum...worth a look!!!!!

[pinkjimiphoton]

MMMMMMUUUUUUUUAAAAAHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAA....

I should have it next week. The guy is shipping it tomorrow from Toronto, and I'm just outside Montreal, so I figure Thursday or Friday I should get it.

that is so awesome bro....looks like we'll be getting them around the same time!!!

[pinkjimiphoton]

Reviews on this thing are all good good good. I want one.

"I couldn't believe it when my friend from the guitar shop called me and told me they just got in a Ludwig mini-Phase II. I asked if it wasn't in fact the same Ludwig Suitcase Phaser that Sonic Youth used on the Diamond Sea & he said "No it's way smaller than that & we think it's older, in fact we've never seen one, we can't find any info on it & it's broken". My heart jumped because I'm the only guy in town that fixes pedals. so after looking it over & bartering a little they let me have it for $40, oh man! It was sooooo worth the $5 transformer & the 1/2 hour worth of work. This thing is sooooooooooo lush & weird, it has most of the sounds on the Suitcase Phase II, and to be honest it's actually cooler in that it has C/V outs for Depth, Width, Resonance, regeneration, Noise, and a built in threadle for Speed. Another cool feature is the speed ramping (this allows it to speed up and slow down like a Leslie Cabinet."

that's hip dude!!
sounds like that's one to clone, too!! but...i believe that may have been later than the phase II, and even more of a hen's tooth!!!

[digi2t]

Hmmm, Harmony Central lists 2 reviews, one for the Phase II, and another for a Mini-Phase. Don't know what the mini looks like, but I haven't had time to research it though.

[pinkjimiphoton]

diggety...

[pinkjimiphoton]

researching it, it appears more than 1000 were made, as one i saw listed on an old auction site had the serial number of 1009.

there's about 200 known of apparently, and maybe 50 working specimens in the wild, sure there's more than that.

sad to think how many are buried alive, slowly rotting surrounded by detritus in dumps across the country.

[digi2t]

diggety...

I'm really diggin' the Ravi Shankar pose, and the Leona Boyd grip. Yeeeeaaaahhhhhhhh maaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnn!

[digi2t]

OK.... this is just tooooo much for me. Got it today, and I could only handle about 20 minutes with it. There's just WAY too much mojo there for any one man to handle sanely. I'm going to have to take this in, in small doses. I was even to afraid to open the box after I got it from the post office, like some gennie was gonna escape or something. The funniest part was that I couldn't get the top lid open, being too dimwitted to think about sliding the button to the side. Thankfully, my step-daughter was my shining beacon here.

Anyway, Jimi, once you get yours, can you tell me if yours "ticks" or "tocks" when you max the fuzz regen slider (with the switch in BOTH or FUZZ regen.) with the fuzz on? On mine, if the slider is above 5 or 6, it sounds like a wicked LFO bleed. Maybe they were just that way, or maybe someone played with the trimmers.

Pictures coming soon.

Whatever you do, DO NOT get a Geiger Counter, and a Phase II in the span of a week! It's just too much. Man... I gotta sit down, I think my nose is bleeding....

[pinkjimiphoton]

dino,
i believe that was called "fuzz repeat" that you're describing, and i believe it's an intentional feature.

breathe man, and take your time with it...lol. i get mine on friday, steve is showing up at my gig about 11 pm...just in time for the second set to be just about to start, so i'll be like,
this is the LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST SET IN THE HISTORY OF MAN...or it will seem like it.
and it will be all i can do to not just plug it in right then and there!!!

unfortunately, i'm gonna have to do some repair work...at least one slider and one foot switch is broken he says.
but he believes it's stuck ON. i can live with that.

as soon as i can get it home, bet i will do all so we can compare notes bro...

this is almost too much mojo for ME to handle, knowing how psyched you are!!!

have fun bro!!!!

make that thing talk!!!!

i've gotta debug that hofner buzzbox...the schematic, as written can't possibly be right!!

[digi2t]

Yup, fuzz repeat, that's it. When I have the fuzz on, it ticks big time at over 5 or 6. That's fuzz footswitch ON, fuzz and vocal ON, and selection switch on BOTH or FUZZ REP. Let me know. Took me some time to figure out the "Fast Start" "Slow Start" switch, but I got my head around it. And man, WICKED NASTY FUZZ. Just plain raunchy. I love it.

Well, thanks to keeb, we can stick another one on the "to do" list. The Colorsound Vocalizer. You heard me.... another hen's tooth.



Just saw one on EBay at 1200$.

Time to gut that old wah  

[Tony Forestiere]

The 4136 Quad is also one of the the "CA" specials. High slew and low noise (for the 70s). I believe they are still available on-line.

[digi2t]

Thanks Tony, but what the F^%#^#K is a ME.0.49 transistor? I haven't had any luck finding any info yet.

[pinkjimiphoton]

holy sheet, i remember reading about them things!!!

dude, i am freaking a ball of nerves waiting til friday!!! lol!!!!


yah, fuzz repeat is probably the sound you're talking about...if memory serves the speed thing is how fast the modulation kicks in.

the more ya play with it, the more sick stuff you'll find...and that fuzz...some claim it's lame, but to me, it was just the most perfectly obnoxious fuzz of all time!!


we'll compare notes this weekend bro...

got more good news tonite too, my girlfriend is selling her quad so i can get my princeton and my echoplex out of pawn finally...thank god!!

[digi2t]

Marry that girl, treat her like a queen, and don't let any man come within 50 paces of her..... especially me! 

[pinkjimiphoton]

lol...you can have her. she fuggin' hates me most of the time.

i wish things were better on that front bro...love her to death, but there's some damn near insurmountable issues.

you don't even want to know....trust....

[Hides-His-Eyes]

devil take the women, for they never are so easy...

[pinkjimiphoton]

dude...if only you knew just how bad sheet is here right now...

i'll leave the ludwig pedal to the forum in my will if i don't survive the next few days...

[pinkjimiphoton]

life DID suck. now it's better.
here's the thing...i did get the ludwig friday nite. my heart almost stopped beating when i realized before even opening it up that THIS was IT. MINE. THE ONE I TRADED OFF FOR WEED 33 YEARS AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how did i know? well, mine was missing the bottom panel...this had cardboard over it, applied by the guy i traded it to that said the switches were impossible to replace...they are just standard (now) dpdt's!

next, it still had the clear 'glow under black light" paint i had applied to it...
and the "fragile" stickers i had gotten from my brother's print shop.

when i opened it up, it was even more obvious. the stereo bypass switch was missing, replaced still with the toggle switch i had added back about 1977. hey, a dpdt switch is a dpdt switch? right?
also, one of the animation sliders was broken. this was it.

anyways, i did plug it in, it is not yet in working condition.

but i DID get it to pass sound, and got a fleeting couple seconds of the infamous OYOYOYOYOYOYOYOYOYOYOY sound, so i'm pretty confident i can repair it.

worthless without pictures, so here's a few:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   


more gut shots to come...dino, if you can, i really need to know which wires connect to the lower left footswitch...pics to come.

it's here...now i gotta get it running, then it's tons of shots, a bunch of voltage measurements, and we're on our way, gang!!!

[tcobretti]

Wow, that is insane.  You got your actual pedal back 40 years later.

You need to post some awesome clips so we can all hate you.

[pinkjimiphoton]

well, don't hate me yet....first, i gotta get it working again....then between all of us working together, we can CLONE it, so EVERYONE can have and enjoy it!

i'm hoping dino can help me determine where the wires that are disconnected go...once that's done, i'll replace all the electrolytics and it should be good to go, hopefully!!

i DID try it the other night...and got it to go YOYOYOYOYOYOYOYOYOYOY for a couple seconds, and it DID pass signal...so i hope it'll be a relatively painless fix!



and all it cost me was my tele that i haven't touched in a year or two...

[deadastronaut]

33 years later it came back!....brilliant!..

cant wait to hear it fully working...nice one jimi!...