Need help with reverb tank codes

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So build your own better version. It's essentially just a bunch of op amps with a monolithic IC for the output. That 'distortion' circuit looks basically like a Tuber Screamer.
It's got this crazy metal sound, not my video but it sounds like this.


I wouldn't use the reverb tank for this, but it would be cool to play other stuff on it as well.
 

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It's got this crazy metal sound, not my video but it sounds like this.


I wouldn't use the reverb tank for this, but it would be cool to play other stuff on it as well.



I had just briefly looked at the schematic. While it's not exactly a Tube Screamer, it's still a typical arrangement of clipping diodes/LEDs in an op-amp feedback loop.

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But anyway, getting back to my question, the tank being an 1BB2E4A, the E means "No Outer Channel":
https://www.amplifiedparts.com/tech-articles/accutronics-products-and-specifications

Does this mean this specification is irrelevant, and I can use any of the ground/isolation options on the tank?

The locking device option is clearly irrelevant, not even sure what a 4 type is, or how you would lock a tank in a closed back cab with no special device. Nor are any versions other than 1 easily accessible on the market.
 

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My experience of current production tanks from the likes of MOD is that the decays are much longer than would be expected from a given digit code. I suggest go for a 2 at most - I found 3 pretty much unusable except for massive lingering ambience.
 

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Radiocaster, where did you find the pot? I have a 15G chassis that I was contemplating filling in the reverb circuit, but didn't find the correct control pot.
 

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Radiocaster, where did you find the pot? I have a 15G chassis that I was contemplating filling in the reverb circuit, but didn't find the correct control pot.
Haven't started it yet. In fact I haven't even bought the other parts, but I'm sure I have some resistors and maybe some caps and an IC socket as well.

It's a pc board mounted pot, right? I may have one of those as well. Or I can get those locally, I just can't buy the ones with eyelet solder lugs offline.
 

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R58 on the schematic, 50KB snap in #034719.
I checked CE, and a few other sources, and don't find that value.
Edit, just checked by part number, several sources show availability!
 
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