Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
I saw this pop-up today at Macari’s and thought I’d check it out. It’s a silicon fuzz face variant used as the fuzz board in one of the old Colorsound fuzz wahs – which is not completely unlike the Colorsound Fuzz Box one knob fuzz (which I used for the layout). It’s a great sounding, … Read more
…and here is the op amp channel. Schematic (might to a complete layout for both channels if there is interest. It will require some extra offboard wiring due to two separate bypass switches and an order switch….)
An old super rare DBA pedal which was a two channel fuzz. Here is the transistor channel which resmebles most older DBA designs; cascaded reverse beta transistor gain stages. Socketing your transistors is a must since you need to find ones that doesn’t gate too much. Also, there is a Filter control which is a … Read more
The Earthquaker Devices Spires green channel is a variation of one of my favourite fuzz circuits – the Rosac Nufuzz. It’s a progression of a fuzzrite from the original designer, but it has a tone control on the output sweeping between a small and large cap to provide a thin to thick fuzz sound. There’s … Read more
An interesting combination of the boost from a Big Muff and a bazz fuss from Lemon Amps LEMON AMPS HAMMER FUZZ – VERO LAYOUT The designer shared the schematic on FSB, so hopefully he won’t mind it being posted here. Very nice of them to share their work – there’s a few other posted as … Read more
I almost didn’t post this one, as it’s really really close to the Hot Silicon Fuzz – but I was curious after seeing the post on FSB and I haven’t done a regular / still in production circuit for a while. Josh Scott says that sonically it’s an approximation of his favourite seventies MKIII Tone Bender, … Read more
A Rosac Nu Fuzz done EQD style… Heavily modified values compared to the stock Rosac schematic that is floating around online. It suggest that it should have more volume on tap and a tone control with much wider range than its ancestor. Schematic is avaiable HERE.
For those who don’t want the whole Spires circuit with all the offboard wiring comes two separate öayouts for each channel. The red channel is a modified silicon fuzz face with some additional filtering and a fuzz control at the input. MPS3704 transistors seems to be not that common but a quick equivalent search reveals … Read more
A glitchy fuzz with the ability to produce some bad tracking octave down. The key is to play with your guitar volume and tone controls.
