Hi Chris, The guitar is a Warmoth telecaster that I made for myself several years ago. It has a parson's green bender by hipshot installed, which I did myself. If I remember correctly, it has Lollar pickups, a compensated three saddle bridge, and planet waves locking tuners. It's a very nice guitar.

Is there any way you can export those settings using the Boss Tone Studio app to share?

These were NEVER cheaply made or FRAGILE. That's why they still work 40+ years later. The only ones that are of questionable quality are the current ones made by Dunlop. Scholz NEVER made junk !

Yeah you could sell it on ebay for $500! that is what they are fetching these days!

Hi there! I sure could, but it's probably better to find a repair person local to you. I'm getting pretty busy these days with my pedal company.

@@mayflyamp oh I understand, the problem is I just wouldn’t know where to look 😅

Unfortunately (fortunately?) the unit is back with it's happy owner so I no longer have access to it to reverse engineer a schematic. However, I do know that those units used ICs that are no longer in production. Cloning it would mean re-engineering it from the ground up.

@@mayflyamp Look up a Nobels sound studio SST-1. Rockman sued them back in the days.

Well, depends on where you are and if there are some good electronics tecs nearby. You'll need someone who is part electrical engineer and part watchmaker with these things. The power supply should be easy to fix. The problem with one channel missing would be much harder to debug. However, my money is on a bad electrolytic coupling cap in the signal path somewhere.

Sure, but it might be better to find someone more local to your area. If you need to contact me just use the contact page on the Mayfly Audio website www.mayflyaudio.com

Hi there, I'm actually full time on pedals with my company Mayfly Audio. Regarding your rockman, it's probably best if you found someone local to your area to look at it. Anything that's fixable is pretty straightforward, and the things that are not fixable (replacing the unobtainable delay chips) no one can fix anyway :)

I just bought 2 off Reverb for $350!!

Thanks buddy!!

Thanks! Regarding your soloist, in general problems with old electronics are usually the electro-mechanical things rather than the electronics, although there are always exceptions (electrolytic caps for example). iI you suspect the PCB connecting wires, just try to probe on both sides of them to see if you can find the missing signal.

Hi John, Sure thing but depending on where you are in the world it might be better to find someone local. If you'd like to talk further, just send me a quick note from the contact page on my website and we can have a private conversation about it.: www.mayflyaudio.com/contact/

No way!? I run my XPRa thru a rocktron power amp + effects units and I still can't find anything that compares and trust me I've tried almost every cheap and expensive unit out there.

Hi there, Sadly I don't have time for this type of repair these days. To busy with my pedal company. I recommend that you find someone local to you to have a look at it.

Hi there, I did this repair years ago so this is completely from (fuzzy) memory. Seems to me that they were #6 pan-head 1 inch wood screws. YMMV.

@@mayflyamp Thank you. I found my Rockman after years of being stored in the attic. I had the screws out because I was repairing it

er, well it depends on what you mean exactly. If you already have a rockman and just want an enclosure around it, that should not be to bad. Your best bet would be to find a local tech to do that for you. If you want to re-create a rockman, re-designed in a guitar pedal, there are a bunch of issues with that. First, that would require re-verse engineering a loaner unit and would likely take hundreds of hours of engineering time (not to mention destroying an original unit). The next issued is that the original used chips that are now obsolete - you can't buy them. Well, you can buy some of them, but certainly not a complete set. The third issue is that someone else owns the rights to the design, which means that licensing fees would have to be paid. Especially as you'd have to sell a LOT of them to re-coup those hundreds of hours of engineering time. If that's what you are looking for then, I'm not sure if it would be worth it to you :)

Hi there, I can't remember the part number off hand, but I give it in the video. As to where it came from, my buddy Bill (a professional electronics buyer) found it. He's not telling where!

@mayflyamp lol. He must be selling them or repairing using them. My background is electronics and know I will find them somewhere

If you're local to Ottawa, sure. Otherwise, you'd be better off finding a local tech to look at it. Warning though, with the battery acid there might be several components damaged.

@@mayflyamp good news it works it took hours of contact cleaner and slowly working the rust and acid out for the switches to move, I'd still like to get the switches replaced but can't find the parts you mentioned, it would really help if it's possible for you to send a link if available to the switches they are the same I believe as the one you repaired .5 A 125V it would be a huge help thanks

@@mayflyamp I got it working but not sure how long the switches will last there are two 3 way and 2 2 way switches on mine my question is do you have a specific supplier of the switches that I can contact because the only online supplier I contacted only sells in a quantity of 500 any help would be appreciated I don't mind paying shipping to the US just want to keep my rockman going thanks

@@michaelvasquez8556 I think I got those at mouser