Damage Plan
This circuit is like a freakin' War Crime. There are a few combinations of settings that yield sounds most would recognize as, "Fuzz Pedal" sounds and then a WHOLE bunch of settings that would be more readily recognized as, "Cascading Electronic Failure Possibly Resulting in Injury."
Here's the pedal with some Mini Top Hat knobs. I like 'em, but they're a little too dignified for Herr Schädigen.
Update: I solved the Super Fuzz mystery. The octave trimmer was the culprit. As you back down the octave trimmer, for some reason it increases the gain until the pedal is completely uncontrollable. I don't know why that wasn't more obvious to me sooner. With the octave trimmer up to about 3/4, the gain becomes much more manageable. Which, for some reason, is just the opposite of what I thought was going on. So I kept the trimmer low and it was making the pedal a nightmare.
Damage Plan
This circuit is like a freakin' War Crime. There are a few combinations of settings that yield sounds most would recognize as, "Fuzz Pedal" sounds and then a WHOLE bunch of settings that would be more readily recognized as, "Cascading Electronic Failure Possibly Resulting in Injury."
Here's the pedal with some Mini Top Hat knobs. I like 'em, but they're a little too dignified for Herr Schädigen.
Update: I solved the Super Fuzz mystery. The octave trimmer was the culprit. As you back down the octave trimmer, for some reason it increases the gain until the pedal is completely uncontrollable. I don't know why that wasn't more obvious to me sooner. With the octave trimmer up to about 3/4, the gain becomes much more manageable. Which, for some reason, is just the opposite of what I thought was going on. So I kept the trimmer low and it was making the pedal a nightmare.