Ant, was the MK I.V an "official" prototype... for Arbiter ?

rafmax · Post by **rafmax** » Fri Mar 30, 2018 2:49 pm

Hi,
pardon my french, but I am not sure I get that line at 5min04s
thanks
Raf

Laundromat · Post by **Laundromat** » Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:10 pm

Doc Holliday · Post by **Doc Holliday** » Fri Mar 30, 2018 7:15 pm

Interesting

Philip · Post by **Philip** » Fri Mar 30, 2018 7:35 pm

The MKI sounding rather nice there!

I hear it as Ant just generalising things in to a nice lil sentence for simplicity sake.

Doc Holliday · Post by **Doc Holliday** » Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:16 pm

Well we’ve speculated here that the ff was a rip off but if.. and I say IF a prototype was sent to them ... did Sola get a commission from the design borrowing or are Arbiter Rob dogs?! Jus sayin

Philip · Post by **Philip** » Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:24 pm

Maybe it's Arbiter borrowing from Sola Sound borrowing from Vox borrowing from a Mullard or related book?

Doc Holliday · Post by **Doc Holliday** » Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:43 pm

USA - RCA book
Brits - Mullard book

I concur

Laundromat · Post by **Laundromat** » Sun Apr 01, 2018 6:36 pm

Without any backing it sounds a bit like a Gary Hurst comment to me.

Philip wrote: ↑Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:24 pm Maybe it's Arbiter borrowing from Sola Sound borrowing from Vox borrowing from a Mullard or related book?

Sorry, but the Mullard book thing just doesn't cut it for me with this one. Yeah, I'm sure that's where the basic circuit is originally from, but fuzzes are set up against any good design practices and the parts values were chosen to bring out these non-idealities. Parts values in the Fuzz Face and MK1.5 are so close to identical that it can't be a coincidence. I'd like to know if there's something more to support this claim, or if it's just iffy sales talk.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » Sun Apr 01, 2018 6:45 pm

Aye min, I ken fit yer saying like.

It's obvious they just took a Vox Distortion Booster or a MKI.5 and stuck a face on it.

Earliest sighting of one is Jimi in Germany in December 1966 or so?

jreeves47 · Post by **jreeves47** » Sun Apr 01, 2018 7:20 pm

So many timetravellers have become interested in this that they needed to invent LSD in order to cover their tracks

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