The origin of the idea
was to be able to make some Ram Head's at some point with and greater
ease. I don't really care to do that to be quite frank, old shit is old,
so I have opted for this route. The XB-70 is a Big Muff, but to be
precise, a clone of my Guild Foxy Lady...that I think is from around
1977!?!? I can't quite recall to be honest. The year ain't important,
though the fact it sounds like torn leather soaked in piss and salt
smushed lovingly into ears does. It is a brute of a pedal, has a really
intense roar at full tilt, like any good Big Muff really. Though my
Guild has the extra added bonus of insanely loud background noise and
batshit crazy amounts of feedback ladened sustain. So the XB-70 takes
this particular Guild box as a reference point though assembled so it's a
little more polite but still packing mucho fire in tah belly. As much
fun as it would have been to clone that throwing shit at the walls
amount craziness into these for the most part the old Guild sounds that
way because one of the transistors is fucked. In other words, most sane
folk would consider a pedal that they had purchased that sounded this
way to be very defective.
So to summarize. The X8-70 is a Guild Foxey Lady replica, from around the time EH were knocking out the Ram Head Muffs, that has a bad attitude but will play nice and not hurt your feelings.
So to summarize. The X8-70 is a Guild Foxey Lady replica, from around the time EH were knocking out the Ram Head Muffs, that has a bad attitude but will play nice and not hurt your feelings.
Original Pedal:
With Mids Switch:
On the Mids Switch version, for the lead coming off of the switch, what is SW1? The only switch I see referenced is that one. I am probably missing something obvious, but I am definitely missing it.
ReplyDeleteI'm in the same boat.....I'm not seeing where the SW 1 goes. Is it row e or f?
ReplyDeleteI think SW1 goes to row F so that the capacitors on the switch are in parallel with the 3nf, so you get a 3nf/22k, 7.7nf/22k, and 13nf/22k options on that half of the tone stack.
ReplyDeleteThat's kinda what I thought. I narrowed it down to e or f, but I'm still learning this Vero board stuff 😀 I'm almost done putting the board together so i will experiment. Thanks for the input!
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