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Hey guys. Was wondering if someone (Scruffie?) could help me with modifying my old Memory Man. It's the blue graphic non-Deluxe model.
Anyways I love the chorus and slapback sounds this thing gets and I want to put it on my pedalboard but the attached power cord is super inconvenient (it's only like 3 feet long). I want to modify it so that I can run it off of my onespot power supply.
What I need to know is what voltage this circuit operates at so I know whether I need a charge pump or not, and how the power is hooked up to the PCB.
Here's a gutshot
As you can see someone made a weird modification wired to the bypass switch, but let's ignore that for now I'm gonna make it true bypass and get rid of that anyways.
That's a really cool idea! Especially because the oscillations out of this thing are boss as fuck, but I'm not sure I want to mod it that hard. I kinda just want to make it more practical for gigs.
I need to replace the feedback pot though since the shaft broke off. That will give me a golden opportunity to mod it if I decide to..
Man, it'd be a pretty easy mod to do, but I'm not having any luck finding a schematic to show how to do it.
You basically wire up the jack after all the power supply stuff. That's assuming it's running at 9V. Since it plugs right into the wall, they may have made it 18 or more, in which case you'd want to add a simple charge pump.
McSpunckle wrote:Man, it'd be a pretty easy mod to do, but I'm not having any luck finding a schematic to show how to do it.
Yeah that's where I'm at. I can't find a schematic for this particular model.
You basically wire up the jack after all the power supply stuff. That's assuming it's running at 9V. Since it plugs right into the wall, they may have made it 18 or more, in which case you'd want to add a simple charge pump.
Tommorow I'm going to try testing it with my DMM but I admittedly don't really know how to use my DMM. I got some info on the DAM forum about how to test it though so I'll give it a try.
I'm kindof assuming I'll need a charge pump which is no problem.
you will have to go in and do some surgery to put your new power rail in the right spot. That would be the right past the voltage regulator section. Try right at that 10 ohm resistor.
