Fender Starcaster Distortion

[hasblueshoes]

Anyone else have one? Mine will feedback and do general awesomeness all on its own or in a feedback loop. I got mine on sale at target for $35 and it has been a real treat. I thought I remember some people on the HCFX boards saying they got them really really cheap before but I can't believe too many people there would find it all that useful. There are tones in this box! Only squelches and anger.

I did a short clip on my sound blog (thats actually not that short!) http://hasblueshoes.tumblr.com/ the first night I got it, and lately I've been running it into the sound input of my new electribe er-1 and it makes for some good noise blasts. So far it seems I can get it to produce a good feedback, sort of like what I get from my rat. This has some more range with the mid frequencies. I was wondering if mine is broken or anyone else can do this with theirs! I'm running it off the battery that was included which is a non alkaline I believe.

[smile_man]

I thought the Starcaster was a guitar?

[hasblueshoes]

They made some cheapy ($50) pedals under that name too and started selling them in non-traditional outlets, sort of like they do the starcaster guitars. They made a distortion, a flanger and a chorus I think. They are at Target, Best Buy and someone said they were in Toys'R'Us too.

[The4455]

I have had the flanger and chrous, i just sold the chorus, I'm not a chorus guy, but the chorus is really good, the flanger is not, it has a huge volume boost when you turn it on and the flanging effect is so overwhelming all you can hear is a whoosh noise, for some of you this might be a good thing.

[Mike]

I don't post here much... yet. But... I traced the Chorus and Distortion.

The Starcaster Distortion is an MT-2 Metal Zone, minus the buffered bypass, and with one (easily fixed) circuit error. Details. Non-true bypass leaks distortion into the output when bypassed. 3PDT w/ grounded input fixes this.

The Starcaster Chorus is a CE-5 Chorus Ensemble (analog), minus the buffered bypass, minus the dry output, and using different BBD/clock chips. Details. Easily modded to do vibrato.

Got 'em both at Target for under $15 each.

Judging by the knobs, the flanger is most likely a Boss clone as well.

Mike