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philip- 07-19-2007
Professional MKII with OC81D's
Ladies and Gentlemen, my D*A*M OC81D loaded Professional MKII Tone Bender: No.65 http://www.esnips.com/doc/f5df70f1-d234-49d7-81ad-0f60fd4511b5/D*A*M-MKII-a http://www.esnips.com/doc/d9b208ce-b31b-4145-b2a0-b8d86d500029/D*A*M-MKII-b http://www.esnips.com/doc/00e7fd51-1bdd-4585-a910-6cec557b7738/D*A*M-MKII-c http://www.esnips.com/doc/17987375-85a6-4901-883f-e7dfeddb01cf/D*A*M-MKII-d 8)

d4niel- 07-21-2007

Damn, that second song with Robert Johnson styled riffing is fantastic! Great to hear fuzz in this context!

poorbob- 07-21-2007

Isn't the second song You Shook Me? Whatever it is it makes me want one. BTW, is it bad to dream about a fuzz? :oops: I dreamt that I bought a Rotosound MKI with a serial number of 001, which I'm sure doesn't exist :?

philip- 07-22-2007

Yeah the 2nd song is You Shook Me. 8)

Psycho*Daisies- 08-15-2007

Check this out: http://cgi.ebay.com/COLORSOUND-TONEBENDER-MKII_W0QQitemZ200141247717QQihZ010QQcategoryZ41419QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem The MKII had THREE Mullard OC81D's! (not two)... inaccurate and pricey!!

tonebender- 08-15-2007

As ever great playing and recording Phillip. I saw that you had snapped up this sucker. Just out of curiosity - what type material slide do you favour?

josoap- 08-15-2007

great riffin there philip - had a listen to some of your other esnips too. There's a bit in 'hold tight' reminds me of sgt. pepper ..reprise - which is a great tone, was that done with a tonebender mkII do you know?

philip- 08-16-2007

I used to own a real good bottle neck, it came free with an issue of Guitarist or something back in the 90's. I loved that slide, but sadly it fell of my amp one day and broke! :( I bought one of those run of the mill Jim Dunlop metal slides recently. It does the job, but I still miss my bottleneck. Hold Tight features the glorious MKI Tone Bender. I think Sgt Pepper features the Vox UL-730's fuzz/distortion with loads of treble. 8)

philip- 08-16-2007

Check this out: http://cgi.ebay.com/COLORSOUND-TONEBENDER-MKII_W0QQitemZ200141247717QQihZ010QQcategoryZ41419QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem It looks like "Scotty, at Pro Analog" didn't really do his homework, because a real MKII has THREE Mullard OC81D's! (not two!)...not to mention he didn't put in the old school mustard caps or craft that a DAM pedal would have. inaccurate and pricey!! I want one of those MKII shells so I can insert my D*A*M MKII innards. :P

AbbeSauniere- 08-17-2007

Check this out: http://cgi.ebay.com/COLORSOUND-TONEBENDER-MKII_W0QQitemZ200141247717QQihZ010QQcategoryZ41419QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem It looks like "Scotty, at Pro Analog" didn't really do his homework, because a real MKII has THREE Mullard OC81D's! (not two!)...not to mention he didn't put in the old school mustard caps or craft that a DAM pedal would have. inaccurate and pricey!!The MKIIs came with 2 transistors for a short while. I do agree that that is one overpriced pedal though.

Psycho*Daisies- 08-17-2007

Check this out: http://cgi.ebay.com/COLORSOUND-TONEBENDER-MKII_W0QQitemZ200141247717QQihZ010QQcategoryZ41419QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem It looks like "Scotty, at Pro Analog" didn't really do his homework, because a real MKII has THREE Mullard OC81D's! (not two!)...not to mention he didn't put in the old school mustard caps or craft that a DAM pedal would have. inaccurate and pricey!!The MKIIs came with 2 transistors for a short while. I do agree that that is one overpriced pedal though. No, apparently the 2 transistor Tone Benders were not labeled "MKII" yet, still just "Tone Bender". These transition-period Tone Benders (now referred to as "MK1.5") had 2 OC75's, not OC81D's. According to "A Little History" (of the Tone Bender), "Only a small number of the two transistor Tone Benders were produced before the change to the famous three transistor Tone Bender Professional MKII".

The Captain- 08-18-2007

Some of the dead early MKI.5's used these weird Imprex transistors. I heard a story some time ago now that a few of the early MKII's did have the (MKI.5) two transistor circuit built into them as a kinda transition from one circuit to the next. Never seen one though and it does see a little odd to me. If I designed a new pedal it would be nuts to then stick in a older circuit but I guess anything is possible. I was also told that the Colorsound reissues from the 1990's (like the one on eBay) used the two transistor circuit because the pedal they had for reference was one of the transition MKII's with the two tranny circuit?!? Yet another invalidated rumour was that Mr Page's MKII was one of the 2 transistor transition models, I don't really buy that one though. ~Dave

AbbeSauniere- 08-20-2007

The Colorsound RI was modeled off an actual vintage MKII with the MK1.5 circuit. The owner is a member of the Plexi Palace Forums. Don't recall the member's name.

Dan- 09-06-2007

Dave, I recently read (not on this site) that you would no longer be using the OC81D or the OC75 and instead the OC81 in the MKII. Say it isn't so!! Dan

Psycho*Daisies- 09-06-2007

The Colorsound RI was modeled off an actual vintage MKII with the MK1.5 circuit. The owner is a member of the Plexi Palace Forums. Don't recall the member's name. Hey AbbeSauniere, thanks for the info... interesting. It would be cool to see photographs of this pedal. It's The Missing Link, The Sasquatch of Tone Benders! :P

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