Escalator Tone Bender MKI (Circle Electric)

The Escalator MKI is based on the original Tone Bender MKI fuzz from 1965.
**This pedal is made to order and will ship in 4-6 weeks**

Details:

I tune my Escalator to replicate a specific Tone Bender that was given away as a raffle prize in 1965. This MKI is notable for having a bit more of a mid focused tone, and the “Attack” knob is set up to reach its full fuzz potential half way up the dial which has huge sustain with an open and full tone while further along the knob’s rotation it gets increasingly over biased which results in an increasingly more compressed and more gated tone, undeniably 60s and very Velcro sounding. It’s a real cool thing!

What’s Inside:

• Built using point to point style construction on hand cut vintage phenolic board in the layout of the original units.
• Vintage new old stock and/or salvaged capacitors intentionally selected for quality and tone
• Vintage new old stock and/or salvaged resistors hand selected for performance and aesthetic quality from a mix of vintage Allen-Bradley, Piher, Iskra, and others.
• 3 carefully matched vintage germanium transistors. Transistors are hand selected by me through a rigorous tuning process. Transistors are chosen based on how they perform in the circuit. I tune all my pedals with integrity as close to the originals as possible. I don’t add any modern tweaks to the circuit.
• The signal path is wired using high end UK shielded cable like the original units.
• High quality hardware including full size alpha pots, Cliff style jacks, and a alpha footswitch.
• Housed in a hand painted 125B die-cast aluminum enclosure (4.8x2.6x1.55).
• Indicator LED
• Powered by 9v battery or Standard 9v adapter ***ISOLATED ONLY!!!***
• Metal Circle Electric Co. name plate
• Bakelite knobs.