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FS: 'The Smuggler’s Bucket' 1982 Carlsbro Echo

danishbacondanishbacon Frets: 2588
edited November 2022 in FX £

Let me paint the scene. It's 11th February 1982.

In the US, Centerfold by J. Geils Band topping the charts. Over in the UK it's Computer Love / The Model by Kraftwerk. Ronald Reagan and Thatcher are frolicking. 

The alchemists at Carlsbro have just finished putting one of the Echo marvels together and packaged it up for delivery to a dusty old guitar shop.

What you might not have known at the time when you spotted it on a display case, was that this would be the ideal device for stashing your latest-generation anti-histamines. You discover it can fit a few packs of Cetrizine tabs in there and your mum won't find out. 

You get the pedal. You crank up the delay knob. You are taken back by the magic that the Reticon SAD4096 bucket brigade is capable of. It pitch shifts on the trails. It makes some crazy noises. You play for Wembley with your eyes closed. It's bliss. 

bliss.blliiiiisss boou9889oiosl..s....zzzzzz 

You decide to nickname it The Smuggler's Bucket.

£150, posted, lets you re-live the dream.

You’re cool again.









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  • HarrySevenHarrySeven Frets: 7650
    Love these. :D


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  • danishbacondanishbacon Frets: 2588
    HarrySeven said:
    Love these. :D
    They are pretty cool :) cheers H7!
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  • MikeDearingMikeDearing Frets: 32
    I had the blue flanger in the early 80s as well as this and they and my Roland JC were all over loads of sessions.. I should buy it ( still have the jC) amazing...I'm fairly certain I threw both of my carlsboro fx pedals away !
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  • KeefyKeefy Frets: 2064
    edited November 2022
    Spot the Reticon SAD4096 BBD chip!

    EDIT: Just realised the OP referenced this - d’oh!
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  • danishbacondanishbacon Frets: 2588
    MikeDearing said:
    I had the blue flanger in the early 80s as well as this and they and my Roland JC were all over loads of sessions.. I should buy it ( still have the jC) amazing...I'm fairly certain I threw both of my carlsboro fx pedals away !
    I thoroughly support this idea @MikeDearing :)
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  • MikeDearingMikeDearing Frets: 32
    I am weighing it up in my head / I'm intrigued whst effect the tablets have on the tone?
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  • danishbacondanishbacon Frets: 2588
    edited November 2022
    I am weighing it up in my head / I'm intrigued whst effect the tablets have on the tone?
    They’re non drowsy, @MikeDearing, so the decay effect on the longer trails are unaffected. 
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  • danishbacondanishbacon Frets: 2588
    Don't delay! I mean delay. Or don't
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    Bump bump
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  • prlgmnrprlgmnr Frets: 3674
    ah The Smuggler's Bucket.....I'll never forget her
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    Up
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    up up up up up.....
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  • danishbacondanishbacon Frets: 2588
    Don’t delay. Well, do, but don’t too. 
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  • HarrySevenHarrySeven Frets: 7650
    I take it that the original aluminium enclosure is hidden under black paint?


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  • digitalkettledigitalkettle Frets: 2587
    It's like the pedal equivalent of the Millennium Falcon!
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  • danishbacondanishbacon Frets: 2588
    HarrySeven said:
    I take it that the original aluminium enclosure is hidden under black paint?
    @HarrySeven, it looks like there were two versions, aesthetically at least. One with silver enclosure and one with black. This one is in black anodised aluminium with painted steel side plates. The aluminium has not been painted. 
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  • HarrySevenHarrySeven Frets: 7650
    danishbacon said:
    HarrySeven said:
    I take it that the original aluminium enclosure is hidden under black paint?
    @HarrySeven, it looks like there were two versions, aesthetically at least. One with silver enclosure and one with black. This one is in black anodised aluminium with painted steel side plates. The aluminium has not been painted. 
    Aha.

    99.99% of the ones I’ve seen previously were silver. I assumed the black ones I’d seen had been painted.

    Cheers! :)


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  • danishbacondanishbacon Frets: 2588
    I take it that the original aluminium enclosure is hidden under black paint?
    @HarrySeven, it looks like there were two versions, aesthetically at least. One with silver enclosure and one with black. This one is in black anodised aluminium with painted steel side plates. The aluminium has not been painted. 
    Aha.

    99.99% of the ones I’ve seen previously were silver. I assumed the black ones I’d seen had been painted.

    Cheers! :)
    no worries! Indeed the do look like it, but just anodised

    black: https://reverb.com/uk/item/41538425-carlsbro-echo

    Silver: https://reverb.com/uk/item/62454369-carlsbro-echo-analog-delay-1980
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    Up
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  • danishbacondanishbacon Frets: 2588
    Inexplicably, this marvel of British engineering is still here. Make me a silly offer and save it from gathering any more dust. 
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  • midiman1962midiman1962 Frets: 80
    The memories…I think this was the second pedal I ever bought around maybe 1984/85 . The first was a TS9 for  I think £12 from the same fellow in Alvaston Derby. The gut bucket delay was a bit more expensive I think £18 . It broke after a week and I think Carlsbro repaired it for free as I recall . I think it broke again and I can’t remember what happened to it after that.
    The Ibanez was sold on for £12 again  as it didn’t give me a “good sound”.
    I was young , and knew nothing …. Oh well 
    this thread a trip down a distant memory lane
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    up
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    Up
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    Nudge
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    Bump
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