Big Jon Electronics Vox Tonebender V-828 Tone Bender Replica

Description

Big Jon Electronics
V-828 Tone-Bender MKI
Germanium Fuzz
At long last - a Germanium Tonebender replica that will work with modern power supplies and pedalboards!
This Vox Tone-Bender replica pairs the original positive-ground circuit with our in-house inverter design, so you can get the holy grail of Germanium fuzztone in the same chain as your normal negative-ground pedals...without killing your signal. Awesome!
Using the pedal is as simple as it gets - one knob on the left for
Volume
, one on the right for
Fuzz
, and the usual footswitch in the middle to turn it off/on. Intensity of the fuzz can also be adjusted with the volume knob on your guitar (which I'd recommend). There's plenty of volume on tap to drive tube amps and generally boost your signal up...the volume control is very much intended to push tube pre's into overdrive to compliment the aggressive attack of the pedal.
The pair of PNP Germaniums used in this pedal have been hand-matched from piles of different NOS transistors - and these have been a bit tougher than the average pedal to match! Bias is manually set on a per-pedal basis. As stated above, the circuit is housed in a 125B-sized enclosure and powered by a standard Boss-type 9vDC center-negative jack and power supply (the normal one for pretty much everything)...there is currently no strap for a 9v battery, but I would be happy to add one for a couple $ extra. Off/on switching is True-Bypass and there's a red LED to indicate whether it's on or not. As with all of our pedals, our Tonebender is 100% hand-machined, hand-soldered, and hand-assembled in sunny Somerville, MA - we've been doing things the old-fashioned way since 2016.
Customization requests (for certain knobs, LED's, etc.) can often be accommodated...feel free to reach out about doing a fully custom Tone-Bender build (or something else) as well! Lastly, local pickup is usually available by appointment - shoot me a message and we'll take it from there.
Big Jon Electronics pedals have not been sold new on eBay (until now!), but we've accumulated over 100 perfect five-star ratings on Reverb, and we pride ourselves on great customer service.
Thanks for looking and
long live the fuzz!
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