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Hey all you vintage buffs and fuzz gurus...


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I have this pedal that I know very little about. It's a Dyna Soar Lite Fuzz. The only thing I have found on the net is that the chick from Sonic Youth had a "regular" Dyna Soar pedal.

 

It's definitely from the 70's, with C1344 transistors (never heard of these before), built in a Bud Box. If I were to compare it to any pedal, it sounds like a Germanium Fuzz Face with a Tone knob. Anyone know anything about these pedals or does the circuit look familiar to anything else?

 

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I used to play with a guy who had a dyna-soar Phase Fuzz or something like that...it was some sort of jetphaser or something...but thats all I know.....

 

Thats a really cool looking pedal though btw...i saw your pic of it in another thread and it made me want to look something up on it...couldn't find anything

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best of luck with that... I have looked several times for Dyna-soar/dinosaur info and drawn blanks all the time, only really looking though cause of the sonic youth connection. I read somewhere about a pedal called the 'Carruthers dynasoar' and wondered if that was it. Not sure.

 

Great that you have one... looks like fun!

 

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Anytime I see a 4-transistor fuzz, I automatically suspect "Big Muff". There also seem to be two sets of clipping diodes at the top between the pots... again suggesting Big Muff. I see 470pf capacitors and some 100k resistors, which are consistent with the BMP.

 

Those transistors would be 2SC1344, which are low noise audio devices.

 

But that's just a wild guess from looking at the picture...

 

regards, Jack

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Anytime I see a 4-transistor fuzz, I automatically suspect "Big Muff". There also seem to be two sets of clipping diodes at the top between the pots... again suggesting Big Muff. I see 470pf capacitors and some 100k resistors, which are consistent with the BMP.


Those transistors would be 2SC1344, which are low noise audio devices.


But that's just a wild guess from looking at the picture...


regards, Jack

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