Month: August 2019
Third Man Bumble Buzz
The Bumble Buzz is sold by Third Man Records, Jack White’s record store and was designed and built for him by Union Tube & Transistor. It’s a modified Kay Fuzz Tone F-1 with 4 silicon diodes in parallel instead of 2 germaniums like the original and the tone control fixed (so there aren’t any controls … Read more
Benson Preamp
This one just traced over on FSB. It’s essentially a modified Wampler Plexidrive with an added bass control. Unless you’re really sure any through-hole J201s you have on hand are in spec/authentic, I’d suggest using MMBFJ201s, which are the SMD version which are still in production and much easier to get in spec than the … Read more
Death By Audio Red/Blue Card Fuzz
With lots of help and footwork by AlexS, we managed to trace Oliver Ackermann’s red business card PCB which turned out to be a noisy fuzz monster. Gain, Resonance and Filter controls is very interactive and you can dail in gated fuzz, oscillations and bizarre lo-fi filtered fuzz. First up, schematic. And a verified layout.