gnarmageddon
Active member
Let's just get the low-hanging fruit out of the way... yes, DBX made a black, silver, and gold can to denote the differences. So "if you want to tell the difference, LOOK AT THE FU*#ING THING! WHAT COLOR IS IT?" would be a valid point.
Only problem is that the 'can' part sometimes goes missing in it's half of a century lifetime.
I have eight DBX 903's a/k/a "the silver sided" ones, which are the only ones the might have the discrete VCA and not an 8 pin SIP (pretty sure). And while most produced like this had the 202C (gold), the last silver sides were made with the 'silver can' 2001. After that? Black sides and chip city.
Anyways, I have a buyer interested in my collection of six DBX 903 modules - but is something of a corksniffer that all must be the gold ones. Much as I'd like to be like, 'yeah, hey, sure they're all gold' thinking "good luck discerning the difference" - I still have an ethic or two laying around here somewhere.
Does anyone here know of a way to possibly tell - a different resistor off the V+ or something?
I know that it's long odds somebody would know that, but if my friends over at GDIY don't know, I'm going to have to hire a medium and get a seance going with David Blackmer's ghost. I'm more of the mind to let the man sleep.
Only problem is that the 'can' part sometimes goes missing in it's half of a century lifetime.
I have eight DBX 903's a/k/a "the silver sided" ones, which are the only ones the might have the discrete VCA and not an 8 pin SIP (pretty sure). And while most produced like this had the 202C (gold), the last silver sides were made with the 'silver can' 2001. After that? Black sides and chip city.
Anyways, I have a buyer interested in my collection of six DBX 903 modules - but is something of a corksniffer that all must be the gold ones. Much as I'd like to be like, 'yeah, hey, sure they're all gold' thinking "good luck discerning the difference" - I still have an ethic or two laying around here somewhere.
Does anyone here know of a way to possibly tell - a different resistor off the V+ or something?
I know that it's long odds somebody would know that, but if my friends over at GDIY don't know, I'm going to have to hire a medium and get a seance going with David Blackmer's ghost. I'm more of the mind to let the man sleep.
