MKI TONEBENDER

[Arcane]

What we have here is my take on the MKI Tone Bender. It is loaded with NOS OC75 transistors and built on tagboard. These have an external bias pot for added control and more sounds. The goal here was maximum sustain with as little artifacting as possible on the decay. On the early end of the bias you get the classic MKI with tasteful gating. On the other end you can more fuzz and sustain and into the MKII territory. The end result is that you can get a fierce amount of sustain and still have the MKI flavour. Three of these guys are available.

$175 Shipped/PPed

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Features:
-100% Hand Crafted
-Tagboard Construction
-Handwired Leads - No board mounted pots!
-Shielded input and output wiring for low noise operation.
-NOS Trio of gain and leakage selected OC75 germanium transistors.
-Quality components throughout including BC/Philips Electrolytic Caps and Neutrik jacks.
-Small footprint, pedalboard friendly blue hammered powdercoated enclosure.
-Each pedal comes with a one year parts and labour warranty.

[Arcane]

LoFi demo. The pedal is set more to the classic side of the MKI sound.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxrn4WTXf38[/youtube]

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I picked up The Arcane Analog MK1 from Andrew and it is is easily my favorite FUZZ! I have always liked the MK1 circuit, and can always count on it delivering. I have over a dozen fuzzes, wren, monster piece, fuzz faces, etc.... This pedal and circuit is the best that i have played. Those builders are awesome and their pedals are great, i use them all the time, but muff and fuzz face circuits all have flaws that we all know and love. But man, the MK1 just does not have a weakness as far as i can tell. Andrew did an amazing job with these. They are a little known circuit to lots of people, and they are a pain to build and to tune just right for the builder. They cost a few more bucks, but again, to me they blow away most other fuzz pedals. Do your self a favor and try one. There is a reason they are rarely for sale used. Hearing every string while playing a fuzz pedal is a rare thing! Arcane Analog hit a home run with this one and i can't wait to order another one. I have no affiliation with Arcane, i just wanted to give credit where credit is due.

[sonidero]

Same post two forums... I LOVE ARCANE!!!

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Same post two forums... I LOVE ARCANE!!!

yep, not going to type it twice-----
but your right ARCANE IS BALLER...........

[sonidero]

I never look over there but because of all the talk I checked it out and saw your post... I thought it was funny...

ILF RULEZZZ TGP DROOLEZZZ...

Saving for another ARCANE...

[Arcane]

Pair o' MKIs

[Arcane]

A little MKI action...

[Arcane]

OC75 MKI Tonebender

[Tristan]

Woah, that copper is hot!
I love a good MKI, the raunchy sputtery gated nastiness is delish!

[Arcane]

Thanks!

Guts

[Tristan]

That's a very clean and tight tagboard!
Cool thing you put some extra controls on it too, the filter control is some sort of tone control I guess and the bias control probably works like the attack control of a regular MKI so the fuzz control is an extra gain control, right?
Are there other options you offer, bass / deep switch, additional other transistor bias control maybe?
Do you think there's a noteworthy difference in sound between the TI2G381 and OC75 transistors and if so could you describe it a bit maybe?
Just asking, haha, I'm gassing for a great tricked out MKI with extra options but no monies unfortunately.

[Arcane]

I usually just stick to a second bias/attack control as it gives a measure of temperature stability and a wider tonal palette.

I dislike 2G381s (expensive, picked over, mediocre sounding) and much prefer OC75s (thick and wooly) or AC125s (aggressive and tight).

I generally refine mine to remove most of the crappy artifacting and only minimal gating with the extra bias. Of course I can certainly make them a nasty, spitty and gated mess if the player prefers.

[Tristan]

Yay for nasty spitty gated mess but also with sustain and thickness, those are the best MKI's for me! (well, opinions opinions of course)

[Arcane]