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Fuzz Fact 1

This is a pedal I built around 94' based on a modified Foxtone octave fuzz. This was my defining sound in a band named "the plastic factory" (yes, after the captain beefheart song). My mates dubbed it the "fuzz factory" for obvious reasons. Note that I never bothered to clean the road grime off of the VW hubcap. To this day, whenever I play through this fuzz, I just seem to play better. It is the most inspiring thing I have built to date. I installed a crude feedback circuit consisting of a cap and a pot from the input to the output, this somehow fed the output back into the input causing ridiculous amounts of noise and gain. The switch on the left adds the octave, the switch on the right adds the feedback, the pots control feedback level, gain, tone, and output level. Truly a piece of art!

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Uploaded on November 22, 2007
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