I was at the local electronics repair shop buying some caps and I saw this oddball JHS-labeled pedal on the shelf. I asked him how much he wanted for it and the price was MAD magazine cheap. So we plugged it into an adaptor and a monitor speak and it lit up and made fuzzy sounds and I left with it. I get it home and look at it. The label says it's an Xotic RC Booster & Nobels ODR-1 rehoused together. I had never heard of an ODR-1. Found out they're THE dirt pedal for country dudes. Whatever, this thing sounds rad. I really love the toanz, This is awesome. I'm gonna keep it for awhile. I told y'all all that to say that, while I'm not much of a cork-sniffer, I'm also not one to talk out of my ass about things in which I am not versed. How do I tell if this is an original ODR-1 board vs. The reissues?? AND, is there any intrinsic value to JHS doing the rehouse? I'm sure everyone has there preferences on circuits and builders, I just want to know what I have. Boss Area - Boss Effects Pedals. 7,555 likes 29 talking about this. We have the serial number decoder working now! ROLAND/BOSS Products DATER (from late 1977. I know I scored, but it would be cool to know just how well I've done. Free restaurant games for mac. Boss pedal date codes. I've been to the decoder site thingy, that had to be off. Are there any tables or other resources? The BossArea decoder said I had a TR-2 made in May of 1995. I don't trust it. The Boss things is just curiosity. I have several Roland products on hand at any given time and I'm always looking for something more accurate to tell folks that '80's' or '90's'. I guess unless it's MIJ or limited run it doesn't much matter. I am not super impressed with this rehouse. I haven't done one myself, but I think I would use more than hot glue and prayers to mount my PCBs to the chassis. I'm not mad about gluing the main board tp the top, but the glue on the sides let go and the ODR's pot board was flopping around. And here's the Xotic side. Click to expand.There’s really no mystery when it comes to Roland serial schemes. The decoder for the first two schemes reads the first two digits, which is the sequential month code (which started in November 1977 for the “Compact” series). The decoder then outputs a month and year based on those two digits. For example: 64 = 6400 = November 1977 65 = 6500 = December 1977 66 = 6600 = January 1978 And so on. ![]() From 1977-1981, Boss stamped 4-digit batch codes in the battery compartment. Starting around April 1981 (0500/05XXXX), Boss converted to a 6-digit ink stamp on a paper label (with some overlap, of course). But, the design still remained the same. For example: 05 = 0500/05XXXX = April 1981 (Some models from this month had ink stamps or paper labels.) 06 = 06XXXX = May 1981 07 = 07XXXX = June 1981 And so on. There are also fun anomalies that appear from time to time, such as models with both an ink-stamp and a paper label, and models with a six-digit ink stamp in the typical 4-digit spot above the footswitch. (I think has the latter example.) I have an early/‘79 transparent switch NF-1 that was not stamped at the factory. My CS-1 is also a slight oddball, as it is ink-stamped with 5-digits, 10000, instead of the usual “0000,” though both numbers date to the same month and year. These anomalies are really only interesting to total Boss fetishists such as myself. But I digress. In March 1989, the first two digits in the existing scheme finally rolled over back to “00” (shared with November 1980; which was not really a problem for Roland, but would become a problem for Boss decoder users many years later. ) With that in mind, Roland chose to update the scheme entirely in March 1989, abandoning the previous sequence entirely. But, they continued to produce models well into 1989 that shared EXACT serial numbers with models produced in 1981. For example, 10XXXX is a shared serial number between September 1981 and March 1989. This confuses users of the decoder into thinking they have this crazy super-rare 1981 Made in Taiwan Boss pedal, when they really just have a 1989 garden variety one.
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