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italian T.BENDER
black box
The Italian T.Bender is a foot operated distortion accessory.
Electronically fuzzy distortion effects are produced with a foot tap.
The italian T.Bender creates harmonics that are nonexistent in the fundamental signal.
The exciting sound of many of the world's famous Rock'n'Roll bands.
This unite is a clone of an iconic distortion unite from the 60's.
Its simple electronic 2 transistors architepture is particularly happy because it produces a rich in tone distortion
without denaturalizing the sound of the electric guitar. Its magical tones
are due the sophisticated selection of its few electronic components.
Resistors are Carbon Composition type.
This kind of resistors, are perfect sounding on Germanium transistors fuzz boxes.
In spite of others device like Wha-Wha, they are always mounted in fuzz boxes.
The capacitors in this unite are brand new and with the same electronic values and type of the original fuzz boxes of 60's.
Note the polistirene capacitor inside.
Talking about the 2 transistors inside, the italian T.BENDER, black box, is a technical evolution of the classic one.
Equipped with 2 germanium transistors that are a tecnical industrial improvement of the original ones mounted in the 60's boxes.
The ACY10 by SIEMENS is an SFT337 with industrial, professional standards, with low leakage and excellent performances.
The GT1 353 is a military standars transistor, built with superior characteristics, equivalent to the original one SFT353 , also called OC76.
In our sound tests we discovered that the italian T.BENDER equipped with these two professional Germanium transistors (ACY10 + GT1 353) sounds
an infinite sustain, it is more brillant, distinctly "Germanium" sounding, dectailed on high tones, no oscillation and great performances.
The transistors are selected for gain (HFE) and noise (leackage).
Really the best matching we ever discovered for this circuit.