Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
If you’re in the USA, for $75 you may as well buy the kit. otherwise, this should be a really simple build. THIRD MAN FUZZ A TRON VERO LAYOUT Spoiler alert – it’s a modded Fuzzrite. 330k resistors instead of 470k, and it’s missing a resistor that formed a high-pass filter on the output of … 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
A classic Japanese guitar effect – the Shin-Ei Companion Fuzz – it has its roots in the Fuzzrite, with a notch filter at the output. SHIN-EI COMPANION FUZZ FY-2 – VERO LAYOUT FY-2 SCHEMATIC Usual notch filter response. It’s a fairly broken-looking wave – not the infamous volume drop compared to the input level, which is normally … Read more
After spending some time on the germanium Fuzzrite, time for a bit of silicon action. It’s a bit less interesting, as there seems to be less variance to the circuit – or none? Some differences in construction methods occurred, but that’s about it as far as I can tell. Although I need to do a bit more … Read more
I think you can see where I was going with this Fuzzrite layout – visually satisfying on top, quite the mess underneath, but who’s going to see it once it’s in a box? It is a good looking board when finished. MOSRITE FUZZRITE – TAG BOARD LAYOUT
There are more than a few versions of the germanium Mosrite Fuzzrite out there – seems like they went through a few different construction technics and capacitor combinations along the way. The details mostly seem to be lost to time (and rust). Here’s a bit of info that I’ve pulled together from various sources while … Read more
The Rosac Nu-Fuzz is an Ed Sanner design, of Mosrite Fuzzrite fame – the Nu-Fuzz is an evolution of the Fuzzrite. Key differences to a Fuzzrite: both sides of the tone (or depth on a fuzzrite) pot are taken from the same transistor, and are subsequently in phase, with the same amount of fuzz on each. A … Read more
This is a standard germanium Fuzzrite with a 250k depth pot instead of a 350k. I found the old layout while doing a clean-out and a correction and realised that I had not posted the 0.15” version. The layout is a copy of the D*A*M design – mind you, I’ve never actually seen the … Read more
Just putting together some options for some leftover 0.15″ vero – and I was going to do a standard Fuzzrite, but I ended up doing this instead – which is of course the Ghost Effects Lunar Incantation. GHOST EFFECTS LUNAR INCANTATION – 0.15″ VERO LAYOUT GHOST EFFECTS LUNAR INCANTATION VIDEO DEMO
A very close relative of the Conrad Buzz Box, the UMI Buzz Tone. Same same but with a contour control on the output. UMI BUZZ TONE – VERO LAYOUT