NPD! (vintage deal)
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 8:02 pm
Got a tip from a friend today that there was a nearby estate sale that had some gear up for grabs that he thought I should check out and ended up scoring this :
MXR Distortion+ with original box. I'm fairly certain it's from the late 70's early 80's based on looks though I don't really have anything to back it up short of it being really old looking and not being a script version. I'm going to do some more digging to find out the true age of it though. The best part is that it works perfectly and I got it for the wallet busting price of $2!
All I did was clean it up a bit and ditch all the crumbling foam that was both inside and out. I've dated the pots to be made in 1979.
I also ended up scoring a few legit original envelope filter PCB's which match the distortion+'s board exactly.
My eyes lit up when I saw the footswitch to a Proco R2DU but unfortunately the rack unit was already sold
Either way I'm happy because I NEVER find deals like this locally (note my location 
).
MXR Distortion+ with original box. I'm fairly certain it's from the late 70's early 80's based on looks though I don't really have anything to back it up short of it being really old looking and not being a script version. I'm going to do some more digging to find out the true age of it though. The best part is that it works perfectly and I got it for the wallet busting price of $2!
All I did was clean it up a bit and ditch all the crumbling foam that was both inside and out. I've dated the pots to be made in 1979.I also ended up scoring a few legit original envelope filter PCB's which match the distortion+'s board exactly.
My eyes lit up when I saw the footswitch to a Proco R2DU but unfortunately the rack unit was already sold
Either way I'm happy because I NEVER find deals like this locally (note my location ).