Nice 'vintage' cool cat chorus

psyx

So I found this baby lying around in my local cash crusaders for a steal and I decided to give it a good home :?

A quick scan of the forum showed that there are a few of these around the local pedalboards and I can definitely understand why!!
Built rock solid with a 1960's chevy look
It has a thick, syrupy sound which adds some brilliant sweetness to my tone.
Its like feeding my amp a bubblegum milkshake (only not shorting out all the electronics with the milk ?)

The pedal is in immaculate condition but from the box I can assume it has seen many owners since it was made in 1996

So all in all I'm happy. Got it for next to nothing and it works perfectly. (18volts though :-\)

Psean

Cool I've seen those around second hand quite a lot but have never played one. Nice to hear it sounds good ?

psyx wrote: (18volts though :-\)

Charge pump build coming soon then?

Big-G

Nice score! These are what I consider to be one of the best chorus pedals out there for their price range. They even work great on bass too! I stupidly sold mine a few years back, to a guy from Zim, and regretted it even since! Tried to get one off eBay over Christmas whilst I was in the UK visiting, but they were all selling for rediculous amounts of money!

If anyone in Cape Town comes across one, please let me know?

Enjoy your pedal! This might even be my old one?

Regards
G!

psyx

Big G wrote: Nice score! These are what I consider to be one of the best chorus pedals out there for their price range. They even work great on bass too! I stupidly sold mine a few years back, to a guy from Zim, and regretted it even since! Tried to get one off eBay over Christmas whilst I was in the UK visiting, but they were all selling for rediculous amounts of money!

If anyone in Cape Town comes across one, please let me know?

Enjoy your pedal! This might even be my old one?

Regards
G!

Yeah I saw alot of posts on bass guitar forums about this pedal when I googled it.

Any markings you can remember somewhere on the pedal(it looks spotless though) or the box which may give it away as being your old one?
Its interesting how gear travels and how small the world can sometimes be :?

Big-G

The only thing I can remember was a red marker pen squiggle on the box somewhere? Can't really remember more specifically than that? If it did turn out to be my one, I could tell you that it was bought new in Liverpool by my friend (and bandmate), and then I bought it off him. I owned for a good 5 or 6 years, before finally parting with it as I really needed the cash.

Whilst I owned it, I used it mostly for bass, but occasionally lent it to other guitarists I was playing with at the time. Pretty much all but one were somewhat impressed with it, especially since a lot of guitarists, including some of the ones on this forum, really don't like Chorus pedals in general. I guess I'm one of the few who do, but only when its something as good as this one.

Cheers
G!

mtmattan

Is this a Small Clone circuit?

I really like the styling of the Danelectro guitars and pedals.
You can pick out the brand from a mile away.

Hows the build quality though?
I rate this would be a perfect candidate to rehouse into a Hammond type enclosure.

psyx

Mattocaster wrote: Is this a Small Clone circuit?

I really like the styling of the Danelectro guitars and pedals.
You can pick out the brand from a mile away.

Hows the build quality though?
I rate this would be a perfect candidate to rehouse into a Hammond type enclosure.

Well it seems pretty rock solid and well designed. It has one of the most accessible battery slots ive seen on a pedal and a durable rubber underlining. I haven't read about any of these failing and they have been around for quite a while!

I have no idea what it has under the bonnet... I can tell you what I can see through the battery socket and that is that it has 2 pc boards :?
The soldering visible from there looks pretty neat.
The only critique you may have on the design is that the sockets are mounted on the pcb and aren't reinforced with a screw to the casing. This may cause some trouble after excessive use I guess??

I'm not too keen on opening her up since it looks like alot of parts are assembled to the bottom plate and that's the removable part.

It has two outputs, one for the normal mono and one for a stereo effect. Apparently there's some hack you can do to make it sound like a tremolo. But I haven't looked into that yet! and as I mentioned it uses 18V DC (center negative)

Hope this info helps! Are we going to see a ST Cool cat clone sometime soon?? ?

greetings

Nice score! I have the Cool Cat Tremolo from the newer line and am very happy - was a steal. Have fun with it.

psyx

Check out this mod ???

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