Old pedal night - Soundtank DL5

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 1:05 pm

Mark from the local jam gave me one of his 3 Ibanez Soundtank DL5s to rehouse & make more reliable. I spent some time researching and gave him the results last night. It's an early model and the switch glitchiness should be fixable with a bigger de-bounce cap. Re-housing, because the PCB is just a bit bigger and he'd like true bypass etc., etc., would cost around Â£25-Â£30 in parts and mean quite a big box. At the end of the evening he showed me the Carbon Copy he'd been trying out and told me to keep the DL-5 for my trouble.
Someone else's DL5 pic

This version uses an echo chip designed for karaoke machines. It seems that I chould be able to piggy-back DRAM chips and extend the delay time from the default 400 ms to 800 ms, 1.2 s or even 1.6 s. Finally, a use for those 64k x1 DRAMs I've been hoarding for years!

Dannymec · Post by **Dannymec** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 2:24 pm

I had one of those. It really wasn't bad at all! I would've kept it if it weren't for the switch trouble.

rps-10 · Post by **rps-10** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 8:35 pm

Reminds me I have a HM-5 Soundtank somewhere, switch is knackered on that, now only a momentary instead of a latch. Will need to fix it someday.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:31 pm

if they are the same switches that are in the 7 series, small bear carries them. I replaced the switch in my TS7 and it works great now.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:43 pm

Nick, how much would you roughly charge me to fix an Ibanez FZ5? Its one of my favorite Fuzz pedals, quite rare, but now hums/noisy despite still working.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:47 pm

i love this range of pedals, but the switches always go. annoying.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 12:44 pm

Fran wrote:Nick, how much would you roughly charge me to fix an Ibanez FZ5? Its one of my favorite Fuzz pedals, quite rare, but now hums/noisy despite still working.

Mates rates, obviously.
Is the hum power-related? Do you still get it with a battery?

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 10:04 pm

NickS wrote:
Fran wrote:Nick, how much would you roughly charge me to fix an Ibanez FZ5? Its one of my favorite Fuzz pedals, quite rare, but now hums/noisy despite still working.
Mates rates, obviously.
Is the hum power-related? Do you still get it with a battery?

I'll double check that mate and report back, its been so long since i used it.