i know i hear a couple chuckles in the background, i kind laughed myself. after my buddy gary giving me that small stone i was looking through my book on modifying pedals. brian wampler from indyguitarist wrote it. since i'm going to be doing some work on that small stone i figured i might find another one to work on, that way if i had to order parts i could combine them all in one order.
so long story short while flipping through the book i crossed the MT-2 page, and then remembered i had one sitting in one of my drawers. another friend of mine a few years back gave it to me and said "have, see if you can make it work, i know you work on this kind of stuff." so i pulled it out and plugged it in, no sound when engaged. i opened it up and inspected the board. all the solder joints looked fine, no cold ones to be found, and then i saw it... someone had worked on it previously. so i inspected those, and lo and behold there were a couple that had some solder residue between the traces, basically connecting them unintentionally. so i pulled out a guitar pick and carefully scraped them away. plugged it back in and viola! it worked!
once that was established i got to moddin. i didn't complete all the mods, i was missing 2 caps, but everything else i had on hand.
sooooooo:
i took her to youth group tonight cause i've been looking for a decent fuzz/grind pedal for my bass rig. and this thing really got it, and it didn't really cost me anything. i don't really know how it would sound on bass in stock form, but it sounded AWESOME the way it is now. totally happy with the results. the mod was basically removing a couple of caps, replacing a couple others, and switching one diode to an led, and another diode to a different diode.
it has a nice fuzz tone, and the three band EQ helps dial in a nice tone. i liked that i could get the fuzz tone close to what my clean tone was, but cut and accentuate the frequencies i needed to so it sounded coherent, not too dissimilar to be drastic sounding. i wouldn't say this has a real "woody" tone or that it lets the instrument "breathe". HELL NO! but it doesn't sound artificial in the way some fuzzes sound on bass. that is a great tone (the beatles "the word" comes to mind) but it's not what i'm going for.
all in all the jazzbass with this puppy into the model T thru the 6x10 with a pick was killer. really digging it.
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