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Show your pedal guts.

Blackout Effectors Whetstone

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Cool art that those peeps put in each back cover

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Tech 21 SansAmp Bass Driver D.I.

The most difficult pedal to disassemble yet. Had to take off 9 retaining nuts then make 31 desolder points. I disassembled this pedal to replace the damaged 'drive' pot in the corner. You can see some fluffy yellow crud on the pot casing caused by a liquid spilled on the pedal that soaked down the pot shaft and corroded the component.

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Points of interests: The white circle button in the corner is the bypass switch. The big orange brick that looks a lot like a capacitor contains the super secret sansamp circuitry (say that 5 times fast).
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Also of note, all the toggle switches are actually 3 position switches but the casing cutouts block the third position.
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