Some Jordan Bosstone information

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Yeah, please don't desolder it. Maybe I can find a color code for those caps. Thanks for the response and the extra pics!!!

*EDIT*
Nevermind :errr:
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200nf / .2 seems pretty high. Maybe 20nf, .02 was common in those.
Not sure about your circuit but most of the others had .02.
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You are right! I was getting the conversion mixed up thinking it should was .002uF, which would be 2nF. I erased what I had posted above so no to cause any confusion.

The cap in question, if I am not mistaken, should be the output cap. The second version of this particular circuit on the green board has a .002uF output cap. That is what I was thinking was the case here.

Anyhoo, thanks John!
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Here's that quick demo of mine:

Download: http://soundcloud.com/charge-d-a-m/alhambra-jordan-boss-tone

(The media player wasn't working for me, but the link will take you there.)
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that sounds really awesome!
definitely fuzzy and sounded nice a thick in the low end.
thanks for that.
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just an update to this thread with this different looking Nashville Bosstone from the other ones I have seen:
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Ok, so my newest addition to the family came in today.
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Its an early Alahambra, CA Bosstone.
nice and clean!

man, does this sound insane/// :zombiehuh: :zgrin: :crackjam:
it sounds like a completely different pedal than any other Bosstone I have played.
Like not even in the same realm of fuzz at all.
Which is cool, that makes it easier to have 5 of the same pedal... :hihi:
But Jim wasn't kidding when he said this one is brittle, biting and sort of like a fuzzrite.
I had to turn the treble down on my amp, but after that I got lost in this thing for a couple hours.
Its like and FZ-1a but way trashier sounding. If you can imagine that.
Or an even closer comparison is the Maestro FZ-1S. But the Bosstone still has something just wrong about it that makes it a little shit kicking machine.

Now I just need to find one of those super early ones with the tropical fish.
here's some close up pics:
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just found some cool stuff on Jordan electronics...
http://national-radiation-instrument-ca ... age_48.htm

Jordon Electronics was located at 119 East Union Street in Pasadena, CA I 1955. It was a subsidiary of Panellit. The company was relocated to W. Mission Road in Alhambra, CA, and provided portable radiation monitors in 1959. In 1957, it was the Jordon Electronics Division of Victoreen Instruments Company. In 1955, Jordon instruments used the unique Neher-White ionization chamber. This chamber allows a single instrument to be used to measure common soil radioactivity up to those 15 million times as strong. Another exclusive feature was built in radiation check sources.


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also, does anyone know when the Bosstone was first released.
I have read 1966 in a few places online, but nothing concrete?
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here's a Pasadena I just picked up from Dev.
Motorola SPS5006-2 and SPS5007-2 trannies, 1N4001 diodes.
it sounds really great, a bit prone to noise and other weirdness but that's all part of the fun I suppose.
sounds monstrous at full bore, with some lovely sounds to be had backing off the guitar's volume or the attack dial.
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just got this- kinda wimpy. gonna clean and double-check but what a pain to put back together!

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