Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Jen was an Italian electronics company that produced a lot of OEM stuff for other companies (Vox, Gretsch, etc.) as well as marketing their own line of effects. For instance, the HF Modulator was the same effect as the Gretsch Playboy. This effect is a ring modulator and sounds fantastic with a fuzz pushing it. … Read more
Not sure what to call this. It has “Booster” written on the original unit, but still i think it’s rather closer to an overdrive than a booster. It’s definitely not a fuzz. Either way, it does sound pretty nice in the demos. There are other layouts for this circuit around the internets, but i thought … Read more
Now get your irons out and build it. Place your favourite fuzz in front of it and get ready for some psychedelic brain melting action. The circuit is the same in both, Jen HF Modulator and Gretsch Playboy. For this layout, i’ve once again swapped the transistor pinout to match your everyday devices. Original has … Read more
Pretty close to the earlier version of Jen Fuzz, and i may have promised not to do Fuzz Faces nor Benders, but here i go again… Seems to be a classic – so some of you might want to clone this one to the specs too.
It seems that not all of the sixties fuzzes were verbatim tonebenders. There’s not that much difference blueprintwise, but still noticeable difference. Some might want to clone this too… Geiri modded his build a bit to get its sound closer to his preferences. Some of you might want to try these mods out as well. … Read more