[king_buzzo]

oh fuck yea that pedal is amazing. is beats my ds1 and my wah. ill post a picture of my pedals later, not now its too hot and im dieing out here. anyway the pedal is great. and one thing

can i use a korg 9v with it or do i have to use the dunlop one?

[king_buzzo]

shit i didnt realise that this is the non sonic sounds forum! meh who cares

[nomadicfollower]

I thought about getting that pedal after reading CHOUT's pedal board thread, but I have no money.
The sound clips on the website sounded awesome, though.

[king_buzzo]

i need a new amp. i only got a crappy 15 watt roland

[next step]

well I come back at home right now from a noizy noon. do you got the blue box??? great! You can use any 9v dc adapter with positive inside - (+ better if stabilized. have fun!

[CHOUT]

Post some of your sounds with it if you can!

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hey chout if you are interesting about the bluebox sound hear this short nosense piece. My gtr into the fooger ring modulator--->bluebox--->ad80 analog delay.
http://www.sonicurbs.com/mp3/FOTS-ad80meetmrbluebox.mp3

[CHOUT]

sounds good, next step.

[king_buzzo]

ill post some stuff if you want.

edit: fun stuff to do with it: turn blend knob all the way down. it makes it sound like a whale

dude, next step that was cool

[Danny Himself]

Welcome to the blue box!

Everyone should have one of those. My favorite preference is having blend at about 2 O'Clock. The step down in volume is my only problem with this pedal.

[CHOUT]

Yeah I'd like to hear some sounds of the Blue Box without other effects to hear it pure. Turning knobs and stuff.

[king_buzzo]

ok ill do that today if i get time, if not ill post in tuesday.

[CHOUT]

I have been reading up a little on these and a lot of people complain about a volume drop when you turn it on. That would be frustrating coming from a distortion/fuzz pedal. Does that happen to you Blue Box owners?

[scott v]

There are solutions to the volume drop, if you dare attempt to do a modification!

however i am somewhat regretful of modding mine (which is clipping the C11 capacitor), because i think it has compromised the tone of my guitar sound. This pedal is NOT true bypass which also doesn't help, when the effect is not engaged i get a noticable yet slight clipping and slightly distortion sound on a sustained note played on one guitar string... after isolating the problem to this particular unit (checking cables and batteries and using different amps... btw i use about 5 or 6 pedals in my chain) initially i thought it was a drained battery and replaced it, still i get this wierd "decay" which i didn't notice prior to the mod, but it may have existed and i just had a blue box with a faulty component (cap or resitor) since i did purchase it used on eBay about 4 years ago. anyways the blue box is well noted to have a lower output volume, which it inherently has. though i am not sure if this is true with the original "Block" logo versions or not (btw, i think MXR/Dunlop is confusing with their script vs. block logo / reissue vs. original lines) here is the link for the modification (written by a member of the noise band Hive Mind and runs the Chondritic Sound label and sells homemade noise effects units under the name Sirkut Electronics):

http://www.noisefx.com/article/mxr_blue_box_mod

so i replaced the C11 cap on the board and i still get the "decay" on the sustained notes on guitar when the effect is not engaged, which to me is not desirable especially when playing clean guitar, so i've taken this pedal outta my guitar effects chain, but i sure do love it enough use it in as a noise generator device in conjuction w/ a contact mic or my Buddha Machine Soundbox, tonite though i'm gonna redo the mod replacing the C11 (.01 uF cap) with a .0047 uF cap (the Radio Shlock near me didn't have a .0022 uF) this will help keep the volume up, and i've already started to add the SPDT switch by drilling a hole and inserting the switch where i can toggel to and from the original "filtered" blue box effect (w/o volume drop w/ the new cap) and the new "unfiltered" effect (which bypasses the C11 cap connection).

there are also places on the net that help w/ making the pedal true bypass (which is abit more complicated and tough since the blue box has a tightly compact circuit board)

i also read at an online message board about connecting the C12 w/ the R12 to obtain more gain, but i don't trust this since at the same time however mentioned this removed the R23 resistor and that converted the pedal from an octave fuzz to a straight up loud bigmuff.

[golden child]

you can put a switch on it that will disengage the capistor fairly easy, just a matter of soldering some wires. so in one position the blue box will act "true" then flip the switch and you have no C11!

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scott v typed a pretty whole description of mod and problems caused. I did tha C11 mod with a little switch an year ago and I really liked the new tone and so I putted down the C11 switch completely. Now I have to give it truebypass cause it circle a little bit in the background when is not engaged but then I dont use it so often even because it works very fine to me when the amp volume is loud. I though to replace the C11 with an other value but at the end it takes many time and so I'm thinking to give it truebypass. if someone wants, I'll post how to do that but I should find some explanation on the net about how to give mxr truebypass cause I never did that.......

.......but I think the reissue needs to enlarge the box with a spacer between the box and the cover cause the circuit is very compacted and the footswitch is soldered on the board.

[king_buzzo]

yes there is a MAJOR volume drop.

[kingcoffee]

Blue Box's are pretty cool. They get a great sound and they are very small and compact. No wonder so many great musicians use them (Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, etc.)

[kingcoffee]

MXR makes great pedals. The Phase 90 and the Phase 100 are tremendous.