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Re: emulating a cheap sampling toy
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..!
>
>
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