Vintage Jen Porn

[TheWarmth]

I received two Jen Phasers in the mail today from the UK, which look very nice next to my Jumbo Fuzz. I don't think these are particularly sought after, but I'm a big fan of phasers and these are in very nice shape and sound good. The Motorphaser is sort of like a Leslie simulator, in that the chorus/tremolo is a speed/ramping control. The fact that it doesn't have any knobs is a little weird, but makes it unique. For some reason, when I hit the bypass switch to turn the effect off on that one, I get nothing, which is kindof a bummer. Anyone have any ideas as to what the problem might be? I'd rather not have to ship it off for a repair.

[TheWarmth]

A few gut shots:

[eastcoast]

Nice set. They look like they were made a year ago. Those rotosounds are definitley funky. Whats the the deal with the jumbo fuzz?

[Graham]

Hi - those the ones we were talking about a few weeks back - he was a friendly enough guy eh? that Motorphaser is cool too! Like I said to you I had its big brother the Jen Vario Spectra - also no Knobs but FIVE!! stompswitches and a huge box only mains powered which didnt suit me at all - a slightly more flexible leslie sim - even down to the slight speeding up and slight slowing down - kind of a timelag like on true leslies as the motor got up to speed - when first switching in or out. Looks like its in good nick too!

G ;)

[TheWarmth]

Bad footswitch, huh? Damn! I bought these from the ebay seller "bluefilmwibble." He was pretty cool and I haggled with him a bit. Kinda lame that I'm going to have to replace the footswitch. Makes me think that he might not have tested them. Ah, well, my tech owes me a favor, so hopefully it will just cost me shipping to get it fixed.

Graham, I looked up the Jen Variospectra on Discofreq's site. Crazy! Any idea what those go for and how rare they are?

Also, I forgot to mention that the Phaser Shifter came with the original box!

[TheWarmth]

Nice set. They look like they were made a year ago. Those rotosounds are definitley funky. Whats the the deal with the jumbo fuzz?

That Jumbo Fuzz is killer! I got it from Circles, although I think he may have changed his user name when the new forum opened. Anyway, the Jumbo has a gate built in, which is great because you don't have standard feedback issues when you stop playing and the pedal is still engaged. Great tone. I actually used it on a recording, but it's not finished yet.

[vls]

Bad footswitch, huh? Damn! I bought these from the ebay seller "bluefilmwibble." He was pretty cool and I haggled with him a bit. Kinda lame that I'm going to have to replace the footswitch. Makes me think that he might not have tested them. Ah, well, my tech owes me a favor, so hopefully it will just cost me shipping to get it fixed.

Hit the footswitch to ON mode, them with a small cable try to bring the effect on by connecting 2 of the 4 terminals, try them by order... 1>2...1>3... 1>4... then 2>1... and so on... if the the effect comes on, it is a damaged footswitch, it seems you can open it, i see screws there, open it, carefull and clean it and try again, there isn't much inside a footswitch to get damaged so you probably can fix it by clean it. I tell you this because you might want to save the original footswitch (and this one is not sealed so it can be opened), your tech can test the footswith in a professional way with a multimeter... but have this in mind... you or he can probably save this one.

[1bottlerocket]

Wow, I'm digging on that motorphaser. I like chorus and phasing too, so it looks very interesting. It will be interesting to hear it recorded.

[fuzz-tone]

That Jumbo Fuzz is killer! I got it from Circles, although I think he may have changed his user name when the new forum opened. Anyway, the Jumbo has a gate built in, which is great because you don't have standard feedback issues when you stop playing and the pedal is still engaged. Great tone. I actually used it on a recording, but it's not finished yet.

That's me- Glad you're still digging it! Definitely had a cool tone - glad I got to record with it while it was here.

[Graham]

Allright for me to throw in some Pescara shots here to save making a fresh Jen posting??
here are a trio I bought from a friendly Italian guy - resident in - you got it - Pescara!!

NOS stash of them is what he had - unopened and even with their - admittedly pretty skanky - batteries!





A nice find - and youre right about the fuzz - Killer!!
G