FUZZ- BIG KNOB PEDALS Colour Jumbo .. Colorsound Jumbo Tonebender ...duplicated?

BIG KNOB PEDALS COLOUR JUMBO 
TONEBENDER FUZZ 

TONEBENDERS

The Macaris/Sola Sound Tone Bender has always bubbled up to the surface every time anyone mentions a Fuzz. There were 4 different versions. The first was a beefed up Maestro Fuzz Tone. It added a third transistor. The second version added a gain stage. The unofficial 1.5 v went back and removed a transistor and third version added a tone control to version two but tweaked the sound to be more like version one. All 3 versions used germanium transistors. The fourth version came out in '74 because players were leaving the problem ridden Germanium Tone Bender for the new silicon transistor Big Muff. The Muff won out and in the end. Sola Sound simply closed their shop. Since then the the prices of old Tone Benders has headed into Klon and original Tube Screamer territory and original pedals sell for beyond stupid prices.

EVERYBODY HAS A BENDER

Fuzz was so popular that Marshall, Vox, Colorsound and others wanted to have one. Marcaris cleverly made them for all these companies rather than compete if those same companies made their own. Some came in identical casings others used something different.

A REBIRTH & THE CLONES

Marcaris/ Sola Sound has been reconstituted by the Marcaris family. 

They have brought back their Fuzz pedals making totally dead accurate repros. They of course sell for obscene prices.

There are countless clones. Some with added features, and many using NOS transistors from the 60's. NOT the original brands, because what is left of them sell for hundreds a piece. Many are very good but germanium transistors will either fail to work at all or sound like sh@t do to temperature changes or actually leak and die altogether.

The cool thing is the Tone bender v.4 may be silicon based but the voicing is incredibly similar. In fact unless the two are compared side by side the difference is nearly imperceptible. Used in a band it is guess work to hear the difference.

$130.00 USD

THE BIG KNOB COLOUR JUMBO 

I expect that this pedal is definitely true to the original schematic. It probably uses 

NOS transistors but those that are more common and accessible. Even the original Colorsound used 3 different transistor brands depending on price and availability.

Nothing can be better than to run a clone beside an original. The video does just that.

CONCLUSION

WOW! Talk about a winner! How much closer  do you need it. Add to that you get a pedal that if you play in a band or used on a recording simply screams Tone Bender. 

Which version of any of them to the listener is nothing but a guess.

At a $130.00 USD it is a nobrainer buy!!!

HANDS ON

Ordered one, Got one!

It delivers!!! 

That 60's Gibson into a Tone Bender is all there with both the overall tone but with that killer heft in the lows. I found it expressed the dynamics of my playing noticeably better than even my favourite OD!!! A serious keeper!!! 

All Fuzz pedals work well with single coil PU's What I like especially about the 'Jumbo' is beyond killer with my Gibson SG  Std with hummies!

If you do not own a Fuzz this is a bullet proof choice! Just enough nasties but you

are always in control.