Pioneer SR202 reverberation amplifier

[Circuitbenders]

Check out this ridiculous thing i got cheap off ebay the other day



Its called an SR202 reverberation amplifier and is in fact a excellent sounding, if a little noisy, spring line reverb that was obviously meant for Hi-fi use. The spring line is in that octagonal metal box with PIONEER written on it.

Whats weird about this thing is all that string and gearing at the front which creates a ridiculously over the top and completely meaningless display when you turn the 'reverberation time' knob.







All its doing there is going to an absurd amount of trouble to move two triangular bits of blue plastic horizontally across each other in order to indicate absolutely nothing. 

Looks cool though and i've got to admire the lengths that the designers went to just to get that effect