first foray into the vintage world - Jennings Growler

[phantasmagorovich]

I stumbled across this auction while trawling the bay and I just couldn't resist. A dude was selling off a lot of vintage guitars (nice ones, pity I'm too broke for that nice framus television he was selling...) and among those he had a heap of trashy stuff. Two transistor amps, cables, tuner and one effect - everything broken he says. So I look at the pic and I see "Growler" written on the pedal and I'm like - that's a nice name for a pedal. Looking it up reveiled it was from Jennings. A while ago I've seen someone demoing the one knobber on youtube and I loved that sound so I thought let's give this a shot. I won the auction. But I have no idea what to expect, info seems to be pretty scarce and so I thought I could ask the most knowledgeable of the vintage and NOS fuzzers: YOU!

(I hope it's not too broken. I wouldn't trust myself on a repair that goes beyond the most basic.)

[korchha]

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1976&start=11

[Electric Warrior]

the growler is even cooler: it has the fuzz circuit and a wah.

http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/jennings/growler

[phantasmagorovich]

the growler is even cooler: it has the fuzz circuit and a wah.

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1976&start=11

A Wah? The enclosure looks like the rotosound branded one in the thread korchha linked- there is only one knob/footpad thingie, but two footswitches. Would the growler have the fuzz knob and the wah freq on the same pot? Weird.

Edit: Yup, like the link. how does that work?

[Electric Warrior]

I think the pot only controls the wah. the amout of fuzz is fixed.

[norhyme]

the growler is even cooler: it has the fuzz circuit and a wah.

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1976&start=11

A Wah? The enclosure looks like the rotosound branded one in the thread korchha linked- there is only one knob/footpad thingie, but two footswitches. Would the growler have the fuzz knob and the wah freq on the same pot? Weird.

Edit: Yup, like the link. how does that work?

But the growler has two switches...



http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/jennings/growler

[phantasmagorovich]

We will see. I'm getting really pumped for this thing. Feels like the discovery of a new land or something. Thanks for helping me place this a little better. I am definitely looking forward to getting it now. Before it was just this blank thing that was mildly interesting and a good deal. But now we got my imagination fired up...

[phantasmagorovich]

Edit: Yup, like the link. how does that work?

But the growler has two switches...

A little misunderstanding there. "like the link" referred to the effectsdatabase link that Electric Warrior has also posted. We're all in the same boat.

[norhyme]

Edit: Yup, like the link. how does that work?

But the growler has two switches...

A little misunderstanding there. "like the link" referred to the effectsdatabase link that Electric Warrior has also posted. We're all in the same boat.

[phantasmagorovich]

HARR!