Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
This is a nice aggressive sounding fuzz. The switch on the original is a push pull on the Color pot and so you can either do the same and get a 250K switched pot, or alternatively just use a DPDT 2 position toggle. Info from Monolith Fuzz about the original: The Oracle Fuzz is my … Read more
On a roll now :o) Info from the manufacture about his original Jerkulator copy: Short for Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise. The THD+N is a Lo-Fi Fuzz with with Harmonic Distortion measurement is excess of 80% which are sweepable between even order and odd order harmonic distortion.
No way we’re going to beat last year’s number of layout posts 🙂 We might break the verified 600 before new years though 🙂 Since i was up for taking on the big fuzzes.. Here’s another vintage fuzz with up octave overtones. The layout turned pretty neat with some symmetry in there, but it’ll once … Read more
A friend of mine was wondering about Malekko mini boxed fuzz and forums told us that the unit was apparently just Univox Super-Fuzz clone in A-box. With our favourite methods, there is not a snowball’s chance in hell to fit this in A. There’s already Mark’s original layout in the library, but i redrew this … Read more
Javi mentioned on the original IC BMP post that the original 2 ICs instead of the quad used in that layout make the circuit sound a lot better. So i thought i’d draw up a layout for ’78 tone bypass switch version with two opamps. This way one can build a clone that’s closer to … Read more
MOARRRR FUZZ!! :o) Here is the Sam Ash Fuzztainer. It is slightly modded from the original, the transistors suggested are more modern 2N5088 instead of the original 2N5172, power filtering and polarity protection has been added, the bias trimmer has been taken external because of the different tones this will give you, and the output … Read more
The circuit is exactly the same in Electro Harmonix Axis fuzz and Guild’s 2-knobbed Foxey Lady. 2N5133 may and will be very hard and expensive to source, so i’d suggest trying out any low hFE NPN Si transistors. Or go wild and try on anything you like. The cap values of 50µ and 4µ is … Read more
Pink Jimi Photon’s take on Interfax Harmonic Percolator and Escobedo’s Jerkulator. Read maestro Photon’s complete description on FSB. rock the f**k on!! the vid/audeo is outta sync, too…..arrrrgh who needs LSD?
Happened to spot one on ebay for mere 250 usd. A bargain. For this layout, i omitted the buffers and electronic switching. 30K pot value may be hard to source, so one could try 50k pots for all of them. Original unit has 2SC2240BL transistors which are low noise devices with BCE pinout and hFE … Read more
To keep the collection complete this is the second recently reversed BJFE/Bearfoot pedal, drawn up by mmolteratx, thanks again Matt. Again this one sounds great to me. Info about the original: The Bearfoot FX Pink Purple Fuzz blurs the lines. Is it pink or purple? Is it fuzz, overdrive, or distortion? In terms of the … Read more