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The Jext Telez Club

#22
Jext Face rehouse. I thought about going with top jacks but I wanted to keep as many of the original solders in place. This resulted in side jacks; the only things that had to be desoldered were the LED and the DC power input jack.

Received a green Hammond 1590BB enclosure today. Measured and drilled.

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No room for the battery connector, so I left it out.

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This was all about making it more accessible for a pedal board. The original enclosure is one of the strangest, most cumbersome devices. I will not miss it. The best part of this process is that I managed not to break it!

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#23
jbybj said:
with the toggle to the left, reminds me very much of the early 70's Dallas Arbiter I used to have, even though mine was silicon. Definitely a little thin on the bottom end, (which is why I sold the Dallas Arbiter), until you flip the toggle to the right, then oomph, there it is, all that bottom that I love so well.
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I was wrong here. First impression and all. You don't really lose bottom on one side of the toggle, more of a level difference, which fooled me. The lower volume "thin" side of the toggle, when level matched, is really sweet. Actually has plenty of bottom, and a different, more concise, wave crunch, that is more distorted. I really like this fuzz.

Tonight I wrote all over it in blue magic marker.

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jbybj said:
I was wrong here. First impression and all. You don't really lose bottom on one side of the toggle, more of a level difference, which fooled me. The lower volume "thin" side of the toggle, when level matched, is really sweet. Actually has plenty of bottom, and a different, more concise, wave crunch, that is more distorted. I really like this fuzz.

Tonight I wrote all over it in blue magic marker.

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Thanks for taking us on this journey!!
 
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jazznrick said:
So how is the Black Drone Wasp?
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It's spiffy. Gain pot set very low still has tons of fuzz and sustain. At 1/3 to 1/2 the gain is denser than most fuzzes I've heard. The BDW does not get splatty or spitty. It has a very dense, very consistent, quality. Concentrated FUZZ. When I hear it I conjur an image of a car being cut in half, quickly and with ease.

While I've always loved how the Dizzy Tone, and more recently the Jext Face, really let your core tone come through, the BDW is the opposite. The core of the source is buried in FUZZ. It's a good thing the fuzz sounds so sweet.

The HP and LP switches are sufficiently subtle, appropriately effective. The * toggle goes between scooped and flat, or perhaps between flat and mid boosted. Whatever, it's a mids switch.

The BDW proves again that I'm a Jext Telez kind of fellow.
 
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This one's mine! Don't need a number but I'm happy to have one! Dizzy Tone V5 triple black.

I'm also eyeing up the Unidrive Hamburger transistor version BUT I have no idea what it sounds like and their UK retailer doesn't have it in stock so it's potentially alot of money for me to spend (retail price + shipping to the UK + customs and import charges) on a pedal I've never heard. Can anyone hook me up with clips or even just a description of what it sounds like?

 
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jazznrick said:
Okay @jbybj I am having a problem with the BDW. Massive amounts of feedback. It's not my cables. Do you have this issue? Thanks!!
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Wow, what a buzz kill. No, I don't have any feedback issues at any gain setting. The volume is always below 11 o'clock, with unity gain around 9 o'clock. Always plenty loud enough. It does have this amazing sustain at higher gain, approaching a controlled feedback, but nothing like that raging squeal that can happen.

I am running it in an Fx loop of my HX FX, with a buffer buster first in the loop. My best guess is something in your chain is creating a less than ideal impedance. If you can try plugging a passive bass directly into the BDW, see what effect that has. Do you have a buffer buster/ passive pickup emulator??

As always, after you do some troubleshooting, if it still is a problem I would contact Bob of Analog Anonymous/ Jext Telez to see what he says.

Hope you get it sorted out.
 
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jbybj said:
Wow, what a buzz kill. No, I don't have any feedback issues at any gain setting. The volume is always below 11 o'clock, with unity gain around 9 o'clock. Always plenty loud enough. It does have this amazing sustain at higher gain, approaching a controlled feedback, but nothing like that raging squeal that can happen.

I am running it in an Fx loop of my HX FX, with a buffer buster first in the loop. My best guess is something in your chain is creating a less than ideal impedance. If you can try plugging a passive bass directly into the BDW, see what effect that has. Do you have a buffer buster/ passive pickup emulator??

As always, after you do some troubleshooting, if it still is a problem I would contact Bob of Analog Anonymous/ Jext Telez to see what he says.

Hope you get it sorted out.
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Thank you so much for your help, James!! I'm afraid that , after troubleshooting, my EMG GZR pickups are the culprits. Decisions, decisions.
 
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jazznrick said:
Thank you so much for your help, James!! I'm afraid that , after troubleshooting, my EMG GZR pickups are the culprits. Decisions, decisions.
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I have numerous active basses, and many analog dirt devices that much prefer the signal from a passive source. This is what led me to exploring passive emulation. Fortunately they are not very expensive, and usually pretty small.
TB member @johnk_10 makes a good one
 
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