1 of 1 Boss AZ-2 Tremolo

[Chistopher]

I meant to post this a few days back, but I've been more than a little bit busy lately.

Anyway, I just got returned to me a custom paint job on my Boss TR-2 and it's pretty slick. I've left the circuit pretty much as is, except expanded the depth so that the pedal can be set to cut the volume off completely at the bottom of its travel, and now the rate can go around twice as fast at the top speed. I will be adding a fancy stacked oppamp thing from monte allums as well, I don't expect it'll make too much of a change, mostly did it for fun, but we will see what happens. Also set the trim pot a little louder. I'm thinking tweaking every last little electrical value I can over the next while to make it more amp-like.

The LED is now yellow and pulses in time with the rate when the pedal is on. The paint and LED work was done by Gear Ant. I'm more than impressed with how it turned out. A neat little side effect is the paint makes the enclosure feel like ceramic.

Here's a link to his Instagram page:

https://instagram.com/gear_ant?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

The attached picture are ones he took, seeing as they are much better than mine.

 

[Mincer]

I have to say, that is pretty sweet.

 

[Aceman]

OK - I love Tremolo, and I love Arizona Green tea!

That is freaking awesome.

 

[NegativeEase]

I meant to post this a few days back, but I've been more than a little bit busy lately.

Anyway, I just got returned to me a custom paint job on my Boss TR-2 and it's pretty slick. I've left the circuit pretty much as is, except expanded the depth so that the pedal can be set to cut the volume off completely at the bottom of its travel, and now the rate can go around twice as fast at the top speed. I will be adding a fancy stacked oppamp thing from monte allums as well, I don't expect it'll make too much of a change, mostly did it for fun, but we will see what happens. Also set the trim pot a little louder. I'm thinking tweaking every last little electrical value I can over the next while to make it more amp-like.

The LED is now yellow and pulses in time with the rate when the pedal is on. The paint and LED work was done by Gear Ant. I'm more than impressed with how it turned out. A neat little side effect is the paint makes the enclosure feel like ceramic.

Here's a link to his Instagram page:

https://instagram.com/gear_ant?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

The attached picture are ones he took, seeing as they are much better than mine.

Damn, that is sick.

Did you dip it?

 

[Aceman]

Oh wow - you are not the Blackhawks guy in the TR/GE thread!

I have to ask - except for the paint job, what was the total cost of the pedal and there mods?

 

[Chistopher]

Damn, that is sick.

Did you dip it?

Oh wow - you are not the Blackhawks guy in the TR/GE thread!

I have to ask - except for the paint job, what was the total cost of the pedal and there mods?

I did not dip it myself, but the guy I sent it to did. It wasn't too bad costwise. For the paint, mods, knobs, and everything else it was around $110.

That other TR-2 thread did get me looking at mods that I could do to it. There's not too many listed online, but it's not too complicated a circuit to figure out yourself.

 

[Mincer]

How the hell did you come up with that idea? I never would have thought of it.

 

[Aceman]

If you ever want to get rid of that, let me know...


I don't see modding a Tremolo as a thing anymore. There are just sooo many great tremolos on the market these days. But, if you are gonna do it - go big! You did.

I am soooo gonna send something to that dude!!!

 

[GuitarStv]

Looks great!

 

[Chistopher]

How the hell did you come up with that idea? I never would have thought of it.

Arizona Tea color scheme actually works fairly well on a lot of things.

 

[Mikelamury]

Nice pedal.

 

[Aceman]

So, are you tired of it yet? I'll help you out with that.