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Hohner ME-30 (Shin Ei Weirdness)

 
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:37 pm    Post subject: Hohner ME-30 (Shin Ei Weirdness) Reply with quote
One of these has come up locally and I think I'm going to pick it up. This is from when Shin-Ei owned Hohner I think and it's one of their weird basket case pedals. Seems quite rare and I can't find any YouTube demos of it.

I'll be honest, I have no idea what it will be like, but I'm hoping something weird and bonkers.

Looks like this:


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
That’s cool, they sound like they’d be pretty weird. If the “siren” effect is a footsweepable cop car noise I’d say you done good already.

There was a design variation on it at some point

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I remember tracing out the circuit of a multi-effect pedal along these lines back in the day (1973)... I must dig it out and see what the pedal was.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
paul_ wrote:

There was a design variation on it at some point

I'm sure the cork was a huge improvement.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
need demo of cop car noises !!!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Having second thoughts. Can't decide if it's brilliant or stupid.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 12:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Having second thoughts. Can't decide if it's brilliant or stupid.

Who cares?? Go for it Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bacchus wrote:
Having second thoughts. Can't decide if it's brilliant or stupid.



Before I clicked on the video I wondered if this would be the pedal The Sweet used for the siren intro on Blockbuster in 1973. I think it is!


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That alone kind of makes it cool.
The hurricane setting sounds like something Hawkwind used on the Warrior on the edge of time album.

It is a bit daft, suppose if it's cheap cheap it's worth buying just as a wah/volume.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fifty quid, reckon I can get that back for it if it doesn't take.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Aye, probably be very collectible in years to come.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fran wrote:
Aye, probably be very collectible in years to come.

That's what I'd figure. If it's not useful, it should move relatively easily to a collector of oddities.
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