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pedal creep. not familiar. is that slang for theft?

good point brian. i failed to notice that sig mentioned jumpering r4. you are correct, the hot bias of Q1 is probably adding so much low end that the freq caps aren't having as much effect.

looks great, nice job.

the color is cool too.
hope you get the volume issue and peak control sorted, let us know how it goes.

in the 15 or so boomerangs i have worked on, only 5 or so had the original pot. out of these, only one wasn't scratchy.

yes, that is an average price for that boomer 2. looks good but i am pretty sure that is a replacement pot. having the correct pot in these is very important to getting the true boomerang sound and feel.

yeah! would love to see your take on seamooon/ para type thing.

it's too late to re-organize all those vids into thair own channel, nice idea, but i don't have time for that. if you look at them in chronological order they makes sense tho. at least all 9 of the teese rmcs tettings vids are in order - ha

your pot? if it ins't scratchy, enjoy it til it fails. have fun. sounded good in the vids.

oh, one more thing about  the digital micropot idea. i have been studying guys online who have tried it using MDA/midi controllers etc, the problems is still the LAG. too many components involved= lag IMO, and backed up by recent experiments by others.

[parapedal.]

jake,thanks so much. yeah, i still own about half of them. every once in a while someone comes by our store and falls in love with one of 'em and takes one home. with players, we love to do side by side comparos, the differences become apparent very quickly.

i have about 6 boomerangs, most are in line for restore/repair.

parapedal.

wilson has the freak wah, which is based on the parapedal. sounds very close to the originals as far as i can tell. in burgerman's demo vid (    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uneGh0c5j1s&feature=g-all-u&context=G2f93b59FAAAAAAAAAAA       ), i could see he was using a pot that looks identical to the  mr.supercrybaby dunlop pot. i wonder if he is getting his pots through someone selling dunlop repair parts? i think those are 100k dualgangs. wilson has been known to sub in higher value pots for lower in the past ( wilson rippah Q based on boomerang but using an icar taper  180k propot in place of the 25K). owned a rippah Q, it sounded great ( after i replaced the scratchy pot) but the build quality and parts were so- so. almost all chinese parts, incl enclosure. i think all chinese pots are crap, they get scratchy in no time (dunlop mccoy reissue,  roc pot, propot, etc etc).  hotpotz2 are the only pots that really hold up. george blekas of pedalworks agrees.

BTW, all of the late model dunlops with cheap chinese pots are scratchy. they messed up when they got away from the hotpotz2.

thanks for checking out my vids! believe it or not, i have bought and sold a bunch of wahs that i didn't even make videos of! i only make vids of the ones that i think are historic, modded by me, or unique.

my two holy grail wahs are:

-67 maestro boomerang BG1, no one knows how many exist but i think it is way less than 100.
http://www.diyguitarist.com/DIYStompboxes/Boomerang3.htm

- teese rmc3 , made in 96, second or third year, but in the vox case, supposedly the last one made in a non-teese encolsure. sounds better and quite different from rmc3s of just 6 years later.

beautiful sound. love the later clip. but actually the first clip was cool too.

i love it when people lower the voicing on inductor wahs, makes them sound very parapedal-like.

i don't recall measuring Q1 hfe. i had a lot of motorola 2n3906, i think they are pretty consistent. i will measure a few when i get a chance.

i like this!

the fuzz in the vid was sold to a studio in atlanta.  i like motorola or generic 2n3906 for q1 and germs of 110 - 130 hfe ( using RGs method) for q2. been doin it since 99

looks very cool. inspiring!

oh, and by the way. small bear's testing method also coincides with the numbers i speak of. he lists a hot Ge at over 200hfe but for the most part he doesn't talk about gain numbers too much in the descriptions. however, the easyface set he sells guarantees at least 120 in the Ge, steve asked me the spec years ago.

hot to me means 125 to 140 hfe using Rg's method. after testing thousands of GEs i have rarely seen one go above 140 so i don't understand when ppl tell me they have a germ with a gain of 200. i think the testing methods are not always the same playing field.

by the way, most fuzzfactory germs are in this same 120 - 130 range, usually. i think there is some magic to that gain.

.001 in the guitar and .002 in the pedal. silver mica both times. on the guitar , it is adjustable via a 500k pot. i cannot tell you how awesome it is to have a controllable treble bleed right on the guitar. makes almost any fuzz or dist clean up like magic.