Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
When i started to draw layouts, i did draw something like 10 of vintage fuzzes that weren’t published on this blog earlier. I build most of them and that’s when i realized why they weren’t posted. Most of them are pure crap. For those who are after “that 60’s sound” – the ear piercing super … Read more
One for the Fuzzynoise-ophiles. Description of the original: The Soundwave Breakdown takes the idea of a screaming fuzz pedal and turns it inside out. It uses specially matched transistors turned backwards to get it’s bombastic sound. The one knob controls extreme biasing of one of the transistors and the other controls intense filtering. Although this … Read more
From a schematic on the Experimentalist Anonymous forum, this is what they wrote about it: This simple box realizes the common sample rate reduction effect in analog form. Sample rate reduction is essentially very low quality analog to digital conversion. A snapshot of the input signal is taken every so often and outputted. The effect … Read more
Yay, our 100th fuzz pedal layout! And yes Vince, I know you’re going to be annoyed about one of the pots! :o) I left the power supply filter / smoothing cap optional because we know from previous experience that they can change the character of the fuzz and tame things down a bit, so I’d … Read more
Request. Info about the circuit from ROG: Another application of the Bazz Fuss design is the Buzz Box, also designed by Christian. The circuit is simply two BF in series, but the second BF stage uses a germanium diode rather than the usual silicon. The circuit produces a nasty (in a good way), explosive octave-up … Read more
As the schematic recommended trying different values for the 22K resistor, I’ve included a 22K trimmer instead so you can experiment for yourself but you might want to use a 50K so you can tweak with higher values too. If you aren’t bothered just solder a 22K resistor between pins 4 and 6 instead. Info … Read more
A huge pedal with a huge sound. Complete with enough alien noises to freak out your listeners. Direct crazy intermodulating distortion to make unique music with. The Harmonic Transformer is an extremely loud and intense fuzz pedal which is very interactive with the incoming signal ranging from over the top to bizzare.
Info from Catalinbread about the original: What do you call an effect that isn’t quite a Bit Crusher, or an Octave, or a Harmonizer, or a Ring Modulator, or a Lo-Fi dirt box/fuzz – but a bit of a blend of each? Yeah – we don’t know either, so we came up with “Harmonic Pixelator”. … Read more
This is a layout for the Mid-Fi Electronics delay/fuzz/vibrato/modulation/unstable tape simulator/weird noise thing. Modified to include a switch to turn off the fuzz, leaving you with a clean weird noise thing :o) Geiri’s quick demo: