Re: emulating a cheap sampling toy

[Dennis Montgomery <morpheus@speakeasy.net>]

I remember them.  Played in a band with a guitar player who had the 
compressor.  It was called the 'Orange Squeezer'.  It went with his 
Orange half stack very nicely :-)

The greatest example of this I remember was when I saw DEVO doing 
'Satisfaction' and the guy had an EH Memory Man duct taped to his guitar.

Dennis

Stephen Goodman wrote:

>Case in point: There were these little cheap modules back in the late 70s
>that would plug right onto your guitar (and the cord into that, if not
>another cheap module), with bright colors and names like "Orange Screamer"
>and so forth.  Very few electronics inside with the 9v battery, on-off
>toggle switch outside.  I believe the Orange Screamer was a 
>treble-booster,
>the other one I had was a fuzz/distortion effect.
>
>One might wonder that, if the electronics are so simple they're going to 
>be
>cheap, as well as fairly easy to assemble.  I found some projects like 
>this
>on the following sites:
>
>The "Hornet" fuzz box
>http://www.web-ee.com/Schematics/Hornet/hornet.jpg
>
>A "Mini-booster" circuit
>http://www.muzique.com/amz/mini.htm
>
>Also if anyone remembers those little effects (sort of) units I'd be
>curious..!
>
>  
>