Way Huge Purple Platypus
Here’s a bit of a rarer old school Way Huge circuit from the 90s. It’s essentially what would happen if a Red Llama and a Foxx Tone Machine had a baby. Original thread on FSB here with schematic.
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Parasit Studios Eagle Claw
Fuzz Friday! Freppo over at Parasit Studios makes some insanely cool stuff. Here’s his Eagle Claw octave fuzz. You can probably squeeze it into a 1590a if you’re feeling adventurous. In his own words: The Eagle Claw is simple yet brutal, noisy and glitchy sounding CMOS-based fuzz with a full wave rectifier to produce a … Read more
Way Huge Purple Platypus
Not a lot of info on this one, so here is what I found out about it: Uber Rare Way Huge Purple Platypus Octidrive only about 120 or so made. Essentially, this is a Red Llama Overdrive and an octave effect similar to the Green Ringer. A very specialized pedal, its best use is to … Read more
Earthquaker Devices Hoof Reaper
It’s the last Fuzz Friday before Christmas, and as a present to you here’s 3 effects in one–the Earthquaker Hoof Reaper. It combines the Tone Reaper fuzz, the Green Ringer (Tentacle) octave, and Hoof fuzz in one package. For the germanium transistors, originals use an AC176 in the Reaper side and 1N1308s in the Hoof, … Read more
Earthquaker Devices Tentacle
Basically the Tentacle is Dan Armstrong Green Ringer with a few value changes. Now for those of you that liked the idea of building a Hoof Reaper, which I mentioned when I posted the layout for the Tone Reaper, the Tentacle should go in between the Hoof and Tone Reaper for the Octave effect. So … Read more
Death by Audio Robot
For Fuzz Friday, here’s another wild and wacky one from DBA: The Robot is a low fidelity 8 bit pitch transposer with absolutely no feelings what-so-ever. It is completely synthetic and transforms any input into a spuree of resynthesized robot jargon. Originals need a dedicated power supply as the HT8950 chip runs off 2.4-4 volts … Read more
Electro Harmonix Octave Multiplexer
Here is a layout for a classic pedal. I’ve drawn 2 versions: Vintage and Modern. There are 2 layouts for the Vintage: with and without output boost. I’ve added a boost to the Modern layout to avoid volume loss. You can find the original FSB thread here. 16/01/2017 Layout updated! I’ve changed the vintage layouts … Read more
Ampeg Scrambler
It’s Fuzz Friday time again, and this week I give you the Ampeg Scrambler. This one’s a pretty rare one, even back when it was originally made in the late 60s. It’s a pretty crazy octave fuzz with a clean blend. Originals used 2N5306 for Q1, 3, and 4, and a BC169 for Q2, but … Read more
Valve Wizard U-Boat
This is a layout for TH Custom Effects’ version of Valve Wizard’s sub-octave pedal. Here is the link to their website with more infos about this project. Here is the link to Valve Wizard’s original circuit. You can also find a verified hybrid layout (SMD/Vero) by Induction in our Forum/Contributions section.
Wyllie Moonrock
This is a mysterious little octave fuzz that apparently has a very nice, dynamic sound. I looked for the original transformer and it isn’t currently available at mouser. Try a TL018 and use the 10K side. Thanks to Cozybuilder, Dino, and the others that contributed to this schem at diystompboxes From what I’ve … Read more