Garen Distortion Effects [DATA DUMP]

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Re: Garen Distortion Effects [DATA DUMP]

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Sweet sounding demo Raff :tu:
I'm glad to hear it has a sound to match the looks.

I redrew the schematic, it could still contain some errors, but this is what I see...

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Re: Garen Distortion Effects [DATA DUMP]

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Does this look familiar ? related to some well known "classic" circuit ?

[EDIT] FWIW, I have spoken to a french builder (Jacques Charbit from "Jacques pedals") who got a Garen fuzz last month too (pure coincidence). His guess is that the transistors are AC128...
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Re: Garen Distortion Effects [DATA DUMP]

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Second one found :badteeth:
Dec 11th 1966
different transistors, similar sound... one pot and a weird battery were replaced by previous owner.
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Re: Garen Distortion Effects [DATA DUMP]

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Wow- beautiful!
Lol at homemade battery?
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jreeves47 wrote:Lol at homemade battery?
not sure :hmm:
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So you got that one as well? Thought that was you.
Emailed the seller minutes after it was listed, no response
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Re: Garen Distortion Effects [DATA DUMP]

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I am halfway between the seller and you... grabbed it :hihi:
BTW, what do you think about the schematic ? is it close to something you know ?
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Re: Garen Distortion Effects [DATA DUMP]

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Yeah, too bad, would love to try it. How does this one sound?

Not sure it's similar to any of the classic circuits, but it's basically 3 cascaded gain stages followed by a selectable filter.
Not sure about the transistors, but they sure look a lot like SFT's to me.
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Re: Garen Distortion Effects [DATA DUMP]

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Radiotron wrote:So you got that one as well? Thought that was you.
Emailed the seller minutes after it was listed, no response
Hehe, I also contacted him too late :D
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Greedy guts.
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