Moonrock'n
Check this out. The enclosure on the left is a Roger Mayer, "Rocket" enclosure that belongs to a customer. On the right is a perfboard circuit from C. Russ Rutledge built to fit in the enclosure.
He set out to reverse engineer the Glenn Wylie Moonrock octave/fuzz. This was initially complicated by the fact that Glenn Wylie apparently put out photos of the circuit board with the wrong components soldered in place. After his death there were so few of the pedals around that nobody seemed to know exactly how to build one of these properly.
This circuit is transformer-based, like the Tycobrahe Octavia (currently built by Chicago Iron), but the Moonrock has got another kind of beautiful thing going on. It has a, "Bloom" control that really changes the dynamics.
Anyway, even the old Tycobrahe circuit is better than a Mayer and this is better than the Tycobrahe, IMO. Hopefully the customer enjoys it. It's one of only a handful of these circuits in existence.
Moonrock'n
Check this out. The enclosure on the left is a Roger Mayer, "Rocket" enclosure that belongs to a customer. On the right is a perfboard circuit from C. Russ Rutledge built to fit in the enclosure.
He set out to reverse engineer the Glenn Wylie Moonrock octave/fuzz. This was initially complicated by the fact that Glenn Wylie apparently put out photos of the circuit board with the wrong components soldered in place. After his death there were so few of the pedals around that nobody seemed to know exactly how to build one of these properly.
This circuit is transformer-based, like the Tycobrahe Octavia (currently built by Chicago Iron), but the Moonrock has got another kind of beautiful thing going on. It has a, "Bloom" control that really changes the dynamics.
Anyway, even the old Tycobrahe circuit is better than a Mayer and this is better than the Tycobrahe, IMO. Hopefully the customer enjoys it. It's one of only a handful of these circuits in existence.