reuss pedals Reuss Effects Copenhagen Bender Fuzz Pedal Pre-Owned | The Rock Inn, Perth

reuss pedals Reuss Effects Copenhagen Bender Fuzz Pedal Pre-Owned | The Rock Inn, PerthPre owned in excellent condition, comes with original box. Stylish and beautiful sounding tonebender mark 1. 5 based germanium fuzz box Sounding somewhere in between the mellow softness of a good germanium Fuzz Face and the big, strong bite of a vintage Tonebender mark II, this is the Copenhagen Bender. The pedal is based on the much sought after vintage sixties two transistor tonebender mark 1. 5. I am building the Copenhagen Benders with a pair of

Pre-owned in excellent condition, comes with original box.

Stylish and beautiful sounding tonebender mark 1.5 based germanium fuzz-box

Sounding somewhere in-between the mellow softness of a good germanium Fuzz Face and the big, strong bite of a vintage Tonebender mark II, this is the Copenhagen Bender.

The pedal is based on the much sought-after vintage sixties two-transistor tonebender mark 1.5.

I am building the Copenhagen Benders with a pair of carefully selected and matched US made KRC brand vintage new old stock OC140 germanium transistors, which are the NPN equivalents to the PNP OC75/OC81 used in vintage original pedals.

The sound is 100% vintage authentic, and the NPN properties of the transistors makes it possible to power the circuit with modern, negative ground polarity, without the need for additional charge pump circuitry. This is a big advantage over vintage original pedals, which can be tricky to integrate in a modern pedalboard because of their reverse power polarity (positive ground). And there is no need for an isolated power supply for the Copenhagen Bender!

The new, revised version released in January 2022 adds a few modern improvements to the output section of the vintage circuit. First, we have added a recovery gain stage to make the pedal LOUD, and second, we added an output buffer to ensure a consistent, high-quality output signal from the pedal. In the original vintage pedal, the level control was wired directly to the output jack, making the output impedance change with the level setting. Not good, really, so we fixed that. This addition to the vintage circuit in no way changes or degrades the sound and response of the fuzz effect, it just takes care that you are passing on a healthy signal to the next pedal in your signal chain.

The pedal is mechanical true bypass, so the output buffer is only on, when the effect is on.

The Copenhagen Bender also features a highly advanced power supply noise filtering circuit at the DC jack. The thing is, the vintage Tonebender mk 1.5 was only intended to be used with a battery, and the circuit is extremely sensitive to noises from modern 'switch mode' power suppliers, which can induce a high pitched whining noise to the sound. So we fixed that too, which is complicated, and this means you can use the Copenhagen Bender with almost any cheap, crappy power supply.

There is 50 pedals in the January 2022 batch, which might be the last due to the difficulties of sourcing the vintage NOS NPN germanium transistors.