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THE TRADE SHOW SPECIAL MKIV TONE BENDER

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THE TRADE SHOW SPECIAL MKIV TONE BENDER 

‘ I THINK IT’S GOT TO BE AN ORANGE BATMAN FLASH CASE’

So this story sort of starts with a telephone . . .and a cable – well a company that made telephones and cables – the Standard Telephone and Cable Company – better known as STC.

Open up a Sola Sound Tone Bender made between 1972 and 77 and you have a 90% chance that the transistors inside will be branded STC.

So – this is a pretty cool day – because I’ve just brought home my own Trade show special STC loaded MKIV and ‘earliest version’ Jumbo Tone Bender.

OK, I have some explaining and unravelling to do.

About a year ago we we’re looking through a copy of level and attack when we saw a pedal in a picture. An orange sola sound tone bender in a batman flash case. Just to be clear we have nothing to do with batman – it’s just a nickname for the pedal. But there it was a pedal in a picture of a trade show – a pedal that we’ve never seen in the flesh. So what was it – maybe it was just an empty case there to brighten things up – maybe it was a prototype that never went into production – or maybe just two or three were made and never seen again?

Then we started to think – but what if it was made! What would be inside – a MKIV or maybe the earliest version of the jumbo.

We were still thinking about it when we ordered the cases – then fate lent a hand – we somehow ended up with two sets – one set with a black flash and the other with an orange flash!

There was only one thing for it – a pair of trade show special tone benders!

So this is a first for us – making a pair of pedals and on top of that – each pedal is a first for us – this one is an historically correct STC loaded batman flash MKIV – totally killer!

Trade Show Special Sola Sound Tone Bender MKIV

This is the one with the black batman flash – it’s the first time we have made an STC loaded MKIV – a historically correct pedal that sounds amazing – backed off, we’re in 1.5 / MKII territory – immense clean up then at full tilt – nasty throaty but still transparent germanium mayhem.

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