PAT DEMO: 60s Mayfair Shin-Ei Fuzz Wah

Pacafeliz · Post by **Pacafeliz** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 1:06 am

well i was productive today... and made a not-so short demo of a fuzz wah that i'm currently selling on ebay. there's some offset guitar and bass action, too.

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and then... being bit silly...

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Pat.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 1:36 am

ahahahaha the ending to the rainbow video is GLORIOUS

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:55 am

Pat this video is great! Really informative and the pedal sounds fucking amazing. If I don't win this auction I'm definately making myself one of these.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:37 pm

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beer!! screw the rainbow. fuck the rainbow

Post by **Doog** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 1:30 pm

Pat does the best fucking videos, I would happily subscribe to the Pat TV channel for a nominal fee.

Pacafeliz · Post by **Pacafeliz** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 2:14 pm

ha! thanks!

i'll post a pic of the schematic here if you want!
then, all shortscalers can play fuzz in unison... like an army of evil fuzz, to take over the universe!!!

Pat.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 3:18 pm

great video Pat, lovely sounding pedal and it looks similar to one I had in the early 90s but god knows what happened to that. Wish I had one like it again though

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 4:36 pm

This is the schematic. It's only one transistor boost stage (identical to a LPB-1) short of a full Superfuzz. As a result the output level is just above unity.

I breadboarded this guy just now and it sounds great. Using a CA3046 transistor array saves loads of space!

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 4:40 pm

ha ha, the octave part had me lollin'.

ace demo, pat. love that jazzmaster.

Pacafeliz · Post by **Pacafeliz** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 5:55 pm

thnx!

pic of old paper with lotsa mojoe, etc.

Ben79 · Post by **Ben79** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:33 pm

Hilarious! Please make more videos.

I'm about to try and build one of these sans wah.

letsgocoyote · Post by **letsgocoyote** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 2:42 am

Love your video, I might need to have you make me some videos haha!

Post by **Mike** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:03 am

timhulio wrote:CA3046 transistor array!

Don't you mean PROPRIETARY RETRO CHANNEL CHIPSET?

Lovely stuff Pat, I love your videos.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:05 am

timhulio wrote:As a result the output level is just above unity

This could be due to the transistors in your array not being as high gain as something like a 2n5088?

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:13 am

Nope because the stock transistors are medium gain devices like 2N3904 or the ones in the array. Pat mentions the volume drop when the pedal is engaged, so really if yr gonna build this (Ben) you wanna have that final boost stage like in the Superfuzz.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:20 am

Mike wrote:Don't you mean PROPRIETARY RETRO CHANNEL CHIPSET?

Tee-hee. That was a massive own-goal for that guy. What a jerk.

Futurlec have these chips pretty cheap, so I bought a bunch to try out. They have a matched pair in the array that can be used to good effect in octavey things like this.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:23 am

Yeah those Way Huge guys build Muffs using them or something similar.