Wednesday, June 25, 2014

warranty info

Q. My job is under warranty, what do I need to do?


First check your warranty and see what they will and will not cover!


 Once you have determined that your job will be covered; bring it in to us WITH your original sales receipt or a duplicate copy issued by the seller! You are responsible to provide us this document.

   Once you get here you will be asked to fill out our Warranty SRQ and Repair Contract, or you can find
them on our web site and fill them out in advance. We will assign you a Work Order # once you bring
your unit into our Shop.

   Most Warranties cover to Repair or Replacement Service Labor and parts. However there are some
Services that are Not-Covered. Extras like "RUSH Service", special or Rush Freight, In Home Service,

   Special Follow up, are some of the things that are Not-Covered under the Normal Warranty!

Our Special Services Fee on SRQ is for customers who want special treatment such as calling them to
explain every step of the repair process, or customers that call us many times to check on job progress
and want to speak to the technician or packing their unit for the trip home, or request us to check out
something not covered under warranty, or to research their warranty for them, ETC!

  To provide excellent communication with the least amount of time we have developed our web site
so you can then check on your job online by going to our web site, www.caesound.com and clicking
on "Repair status" button, then you click on your work order #. You will see one of the following;
Pending, Progress, Parts or Complete. Complete means that it is ready to pick up. If it says Pending or
Progress please read the notes carefully as there is information regarding the job and you may need to

contact us. We prefer eamil to info@caesound.com for questions regarding the Status of your job.

Friday, June 13, 2014

Big Muff "Rams Head" Fuzz Pedal 



June 12, 2014

Modification to add a DC Power Input Jack 


In this installment, we were asked to put a DC Power Jack on the pedal for use with external power supplies. We are going to wire it to the Roland Tip Negative standard Polarity. 

  While we are in surgery, we will also install a new Battery Clip, and replace the Guitar Input Jack with a new jack with a switch for turning the Pedal on and off. 

Items Needed
DC Jack
Battery Clip
Input jack – Switching type


First we remove the stock On/Off slide switch. This hole will be filed out to accommodate the new DC Input jack. We used a Metal jack that takes a plug size 2.1 X 5.5 mm, and there is as witch to the sleeve. This switch contact is used to connect to the battery when there is no power supply used. 


If the external power source is not plugged in, the battery is connected. We mount the jack in the chassis and wire it as shown in the photo.Next we wire the new Battery Clip into the pedal so that we can still use battery power if we want. One lead is connected to the switch terminal on the DC input jack and the other connects to the PC Board. 
We will replace the Guitar Input jack to substitute for the On/Off Switch we removed. 

Mount the Jack and wire it as seen in the photos. 

There are two more mods that I would recommend. This pedal was not made with a True Bypass Switch, and it would not be difficult to change it. This Pedal has a boat load of Gain to get the Fuzz Tone. Therefore when it is powered by an external power supply, that power supply must be well regulated, that is a Noise Free Power Source. I tried three or four common Wall Wart Power Supplies, and they all had some noise getting to the output. So, we can add some regulation and some extra filtering to get back our Battery like power source.



That’s it! Happy Fuzzing!
Battery clip and DC input Jack

Battery, the arrows drawn on the board point to the positive battery leads footswitch 

the switching jack installed

close up of the switching jack


Wednesday, June 11, 2014

One of our reconditioned synths, a Juno 106, just opened for the Rolling Stones playing with Rami Fortis. Check the link below the photo.  







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