Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Here’s another cool fuzz from FuzzHugger for Fuzz Friday. The Algal Bloom is transistor based with a wide range of tones, from mild overdrive to full on fuzz. It has the Gain and Level controls you’d expect, along with a Bloom control (expands the fuzz tone), Clean (blend), and Power (voltage sag), along with 2 … Read more
Fuzz Friday! Do you want a fuzz with a bunch of knobs, versatile tones, and works on guitar and bass? Good. Here’s the Doom Bloom from FuzzHugger. Think of it as an Electra distortion pushing a Bazz Fuss with a handful on pots thrown in for a bunch of tweak-ability. It’ll be a tight squeeze … Read more
From the Source The Algal Bloom is a harmonically rich, wide-range fuzz! From mellow to gritty overdrivey tones, to beautifully thick fuzz, to crunch, crust, and throaty fuzz roars! V2 adds an all-new Choke toggle that turns the Algal Bloom into a Harmful Algal Bloom, a raunchier mode that goes from dying to crusty, to … Read more
From the source: The Doom Bloom reimagines Algal Bloom with new controls, more lows, bite, mass, and more available headroom. It’s stupid with lows and menace! Designed to hold together and retain clarity with lower tunings. Controls: – Bloom is Bloom…it’s fuzz+gain+definition. It increases gain and note separation. Rather than going mushy or washy, it … Read more
Recently traced. So here it is. Very decent sounding thing, especially when we take into account that it is sort-of LPB to Hemmo’s BazzFuss – with starve cotnrol. I personally have a strong dislike to pedals which have more than one knob (level/volume) that can kill the signal by dumping all of it to ground. … Read more
The Phantom Octave is an octave/ring mod type fuzz that’s very interactive with guitar pickup selection and volume/tone controls. The LED pads are for the one that’s under the knob in the video below. You could use it as the on/off indicator, but it might be hard to tell if it’s on when signal isn’t … Read more
I do find these small boards less stressful to draw 🙂 This one is small enough to fit in 1590A without any problems, but if you’re feeling adventurous you can shave off one row from the right hand side. I left there a bit space so 100µ caps have more room to sit in nicely… … Read more
Happy Christmas everybody! Info about the original: The Groundswell full overdrive with a natural response to picking intensity. It features two transistor based gain stages, so it doesn’t have that artificial over-clipped sound like many “overdrive pedals” out there. No compression, just gain and drive! Dual gain stages and a voltage reducer that alters total … Read more