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Dirk_Hendrik (Dirk_Hendrik)
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 5:27 am: | |
What I'm going to write below partially hypothetically. Please shoot or add to the my suspicions.
A few days ago I bought an UE400 off eBay. When heating it up and stepping onto the distortion my first conclusion was that either me or the rest of the world is deaf. The sound of the distortion did not have any resemblance with a tubescreamer and sounded muck mure fuzzy. Opening up the box and doing some quick analysis showed a basically different circuit than is found in a tubescreamer.
Today I did some browsing which showed that Maxon has made the UE400 as well as the UE 401. From two photo's with the unit opened up I had to conclude that the Ibanez UE400 I have is actually the design of a Maxon UE401. What I cannot tell (since I don't have one) is if the Maxon UE400 also appeared as an Ibanez UE400...
I welcome everyone who might solve this mystery. A few quality photo's or PCB numbers most likely will do the trick.
What's more then? Well, take this post as a warning that buying a UE400 doesn't nesessarily mean you just bought a Tubescreamer!
How could one have a more certain check? My UE400 is all original and never tweaked. It has only one output jack whereas the later have 2 so the stereo chorus can be used in stereo. Mine can't, although the chorus has a "pull for stereo" push pull pot.... |
Orval (Orval)
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 5:03 pm: | |
does the 808 vs the ts9 style of footswitch
button tie them to a specific maxon model number? |
Laaz (Laaz)
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 5:06 pm: | |
I believe Maxon made most if not all the Ibanez pedals in the 70's / 80's...
Here's a link : http://www.maxonfx.com/vg_reissue.html |
Laaz (Laaz)
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 5:08 pm: | |
Quote from the site :
While the pedals were available under the Maxon name in Japan, elsewhere they were marketed by Hoshino and sold as Ibanez products. And since the 70's, All Ibanez pedals had been manufactured by Maxon including the Ibanez 9 and 10 series, as well as the Soundtank series. |
Dirk_Hendrik (Dirk_Hendrik)
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 4:00 am: | |
Thanks for the replies. I were aware most, if not all (except for the very early) , Ibanez Pedals are Maxon Designed and manufactured. What raised my eyebrows was the suspicion that two different Maxon models were used under the same Ibanez model name. This is what I recieved as result of a somewhat similar post on Harmony Central by email this morning from someone friendly called Larry Spence:
You must have the version of the UE-400 with the distortion section -- that one sounds like crap. There's another version (same model number) which has an Overdrive section instead -- that's the one that's supposed to sound like a Tube Screamer. They actually say "Distortion" or "Overdrive" on the front panel but are both UE-400. Hope this helps.
Which more or less exactly answers the question. Thanx |
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