COLORSOUND SUPA & JUMBO WIDE BODIED TONE BENDERS
Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 4:58 am
EDIT - SAT 25 JUNE 2011
CLEARLY SOME OF MY OPINIONS WRITTEN IN THE OPENING POSTS HERE WILL NEED TO BE REVISED IN LIGHT OF MY MOST RECENT POSTS AND INFORMATION GAINED FROM ADDING MORE VARIANTS TO MY COLLECTION.
PLEASE BEAR THIS IN MIND WHEN READING THE NEXT FEW BITS THAT I WROTE SEVERAL YEARS AGO - SOME OF THE OTHER STUFF I POSTED INBETWEEN CONCERNING THESE WIDE BODIED FUZZES SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN LOST IN RECENT YEARS BUT WHAT I AM PLANNING ON ADDING WITH THE RECENT PICTURES WILL EFFECTIVELY REVISE/CORRECT WHAT IS HERE AND ALSO REPLACE SOME OF THE MISSING STUFF - G
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OK so I already started off a Jumbo thread - these are similar to all other seventies Tonebender fuzzes just basically the preceding model to the Jumbo (albeit they were built pretty much at the same time by the same people in the same place with mainly the same components - the most notable point being that they had one extra transistor than earlier tonebenders meaning they sounded "full er bodied" and thence similar to the (perhaps more) Muff like Jumbos maybe tuned just that bit less full boded (more in keeping perhaps with the 3 transistor mk3 Tonebender designs - well the Silicon transistor fuelled versions anyway and as such had a bit more in common with the other earlier versions of three transistor Sola made fuzz designs and also they discontinued making these some time before they stopped making the Supas. OK I know that the edges were more blurred than that and that Sola continued making third party sold fuzzes for other customers and maybe even for themselves under differentcompany names (for instance the ownership of the Eurotec brand has always intrigued me - maybe we can get to the bottom of things here!!).
These Supas - in both the straightforward Tonebender Fuzz version and also in their various combination versions - I.e wah fuzz -- wah - fuzz - swell --- fuzz-phasers and one or two other rarities - they were (in my humble opinion) bloody marvellous fuzzes - A true blue british fuzztone with its roots all the way back to the venerable Sola Sounds Mk1 as birthed by Gary Hurst!! and not yet quite as whole hearted an attempt at cashing in on the american EH success (which is what happened in my opinion - and effectively saw them off for the following decade - another possibly very contentious story!!!!!!!
BRITISH FUZZTONE ARISTOCRACY!!
In chronological order - as usual from ink stamps or labels with manufactured dates or else component codes - in this case they all have dates as you ought to be able to tell from the pictures!
CLEARLY SOME OF MY OPINIONS WRITTEN IN THE OPENING POSTS HERE WILL NEED TO BE REVISED IN LIGHT OF MY MOST RECENT POSTS AND INFORMATION GAINED FROM ADDING MORE VARIANTS TO MY COLLECTION.
PLEASE BEAR THIS IN MIND WHEN READING THE NEXT FEW BITS THAT I WROTE SEVERAL YEARS AGO - SOME OF THE OTHER STUFF I POSTED INBETWEEN CONCERNING THESE WIDE BODIED FUZZES SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN LOST IN RECENT YEARS BUT WHAT I AM PLANNING ON ADDING WITH THE RECENT PICTURES WILL EFFECTIVELY REVISE/CORRECT WHAT IS HERE AND ALSO REPLACE SOME OF THE MISSING STUFF - G
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OK so I already started off a Jumbo thread - these are similar to all other seventies Tonebender fuzzes just basically the preceding model to the Jumbo (albeit they were built pretty much at the same time by the same people in the same place with mainly the same components - the most notable point being that they had one extra transistor than earlier tonebenders meaning they sounded "full er bodied" and thence similar to the (perhaps more) Muff like Jumbos maybe tuned just that bit less full boded (more in keeping perhaps with the 3 transistor mk3 Tonebender designs - well the Silicon transistor fuelled versions anyway and as such had a bit more in common with the other earlier versions of three transistor Sola made fuzz designs and also they discontinued making these some time before they stopped making the Supas. OK I know that the edges were more blurred than that and that Sola continued making third party sold fuzzes for other customers and maybe even for themselves under differentcompany names (for instance the ownership of the Eurotec brand has always intrigued me - maybe we can get to the bottom of things here!!).
These Supas - in both the straightforward Tonebender Fuzz version and also in their various combination versions - I.e wah fuzz -- wah - fuzz - swell --- fuzz-phasers and one or two other rarities - they were (in my humble opinion) bloody marvellous fuzzes - A true blue british fuzztone with its roots all the way back to the venerable Sola Sounds Mk1 as birthed by Gary Hurst!! and not yet quite as whole hearted an attempt at cashing in on the american EH success (which is what happened in my opinion - and effectively saw them off for the following decade - another possibly very contentious story!!!!!!!
BRITISH FUZZTONE ARISTOCRACY!!
In chronological order - as usual from ink stamps or labels with manufactured dates or else component codes - in this case they all have dates as you ought to be able to tell from the pictures!