Fender Blender - Clone

Iphone camera's makes everything ugly.

This is part 3 of “recycling enclosures.” It used to be a Box of Rock, now it’s a Fender Blender. The reviews of this pedal call it: “the fuzz pedal with Indie-cred,” so, like the crappy teenage hipster I am, I needed one.
It’s an octave up fuzz with an extra switch that kind of boosts your signal and turns the tone knob to zero. It’s weird and great.
It’s like a box full of “The Jesus And Mary Chain” fuzzy guitar sounds (even though they used a Shin Ei FuzzWah, but didn’t use the wah part of the pedal, only the fuzz....so did they use a Companion Fuzz? The schematics says no, there are more components in the fuzz segment of the FuzzWah than in a Companion. The schematic of the fuzz segment has many similarities with the Fender Blender, but the guitarnerds forums says that the Fender Blender is a bad sound pedal, then you read that they are talking about the reissue Fender did with the Blender a couple of years ago. After reading many comments on the forums you come to a conclusion that you need the original fender blender, who’s worth a fortune....so you build your own Fender Blender and ignore the forums or anyone’s opinion)

Ross/Rozz Overdrive - Repair

I replaced the jacks and the battery snap of this Ross or Rozz (maybe Ross thought in their teenage years that 2 z’s would sounds cool) overdrive from Marijn. The original jacks became, after all those years of using, feeble and noisy. But I was able to fix it with some new jacks.

ABY Switcher

Made a battery powered ABY switcher for Rudy Berezin from, my favorite band at the moment, Häxxan

Old Soviet/Russian Synth - Mod

Changing a Din plug to a 6,3mm jack. This is an old soviet synth from the late 80s from Yannick. The synth has an unusual wiring, the ground is exactly the same, but the 2 output wires needed to be switched (it’s stereo).
Also, the synth looks amazing from the inside.

Uni-Vox Compressor - Mod/Repair

Let’s make vintage pedals useful again.
This is a Uni-Vox compressor from Yannick Tinbergen.
The pedal has a really boorish design: pots on the side, no LED and it works only on battery.
I’ve replaced the pots and put them on the top of the pedal (there in the middle because the input/output are in the back). Replaced the spdt footswitch with a 3pdt, added a Led on top and an adapter input on the side.
It’s fun to see the old circuit board from this pedal, the traces look like it’s glued on.

Ross Compressor - Clone

Another ‘’enclosure recycling’’, first this was a Sepukku Space Fuzz, now it’s a Ross compressor.
Before this one, I’ve used 2 other compressors, a Dynacomp and a Boss cs-3. I didn’t like the Boss compressor at all, I liked the Dynacomp but it was too harsh. I did some research and found out that the Ross compressor sounds the same, but is less harsh.

Big Muff footswitch replacement - Repair

Replaced a footswitch from a Big muff for Yannick, same story as the EHX Micro Pog, but this time the components on the board were bigger, so it was a quick fix.