MXR Carbon Copy Repair

     A customer (the guitarist from Bafoodus) brought in a non-working Carbon Copy. The symptoms were common: the status LED wasn't working, there wasn't any sound when the effect was engaged, and yet the MOD LED/push button were functioning fine.

I replaced a transistor and it was good to go! This is a really nice sounding delay that feels better than my L6 Echo Park

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     Here's a recent repair/mod. This was a Dunlop Crybaby GCB-95 that had a broken inductor--effectively working as a volume pedal. I replaced it with the inductor from a Vox v847 and took out the buffer. It now is True Bypass and an LED indicator could be added. I took off the nameplate in hopes of replacing it with another etched/engraved one. Tonally, other mods were done, which are described here:


Here's what it sounds like with some dotted 8th note delay