modernage wrote:Scruffie wrote:He's on the DIY sites too... I imagine he does have the pedals but as he makes money from them and also works for EHX, probably aint too open to sharing this sorta information, otherwise he'd be like an encyclopedia of all things EHX!
Yeah, that's
RonSound. He sells schematics on his site, and says that he may be willing to help if someone needs the value of a component or where connection runs, etc. He could be someone to go to if you're stumped about something. It might also be worth investing in a schematic or two from him, since it may be just what it takes to crack open that vault.
Well, he knows i'm doing this, I think he even bought a Bad Stone board or two, he can chip in on one of the threads on the other sites where he hangs, but I think he's probably a busy man (Admins EHX, Has his Big Muff Clones, Runs a Schematic Selling Site, Offers free help to people with broken pedals, Restores Broken Pedals, Life etc.)
I actually have most of the schematics he has I think, infact from the above list i'm only missing schematics for the Panic Button, Rolling Thunder, Pulsar (I have the Tonepad one, I mean Factory) Random Tone Generator and I need a more Legible copy of the Attack Decay (The one I have now he actually posted up himself) but these schematics can't always be trusted, aren't always readable and sometimes have mistakes/parts missing, also EHX used whatever parts they had to hand so a design compared to an actual unit could vary a fair amount and buying schematics isn't an option for me, this costs enough to try and bring them back already.
I don't want this to sound like I have anything against him or anything though! He's a nice guy, but this is his bread & butter and I just don't think helping me clone these things is in his interest, time wise if anything, I may ask him if I get stuck but hopefully I can work it out on my own, i'm getting there, that's why I Need the gutshots though, just to tick things off the list and also help keep posterity. Maybe down the line i'll contact him once i'm passed this initial stage of information gathering, I hope he'd like to help and enjoys the project himself as a man that likes all things Electro Harmonix.
This is only the first step though, once i've got verified designs, I have to rework them to modern available components so that they can be built by anyone and for a while to come. Which reminds me though, if anyone is electronically savvy and can breadboard, design/etch & test PCB layouts or trace for me, that'd be a big help, I need as many people as I can really to try and start cutting down the load...
