Durham Crazy Horse Clone.
This thing is seriously the work of a twisted mind, and I say that in admiration. It's a clone of the Durham Crazy Horse. I guess the idea was to get tones similar to the ones Neil Young got on Ragged Glory and the Weld/Arc stuff. I don't know that it really does that exactly, but the effort yielded something insane in its own right.
The controls are Drive, Fuzz, Tone, Volts and Volume, from left to right. So this pedal is basically two sections. An overdrive using a 4558 opamp that's kind of like a Tube Screamer...and a fuzz pedal using a pair of 2N2222 transistors. The first section is the 'Screamer and you can turn the, "Fuzz" control all the way off while you adjust it.
So you bring up the, "Drive" until it's clipping about where you want it and then you bring down the, "Volts" control. That starves the 4558 (but not the fuzz circuit). At first there's no change, but as you gradually reduce the voltage the 4558 will start to get compressed a little and finally it will get kind of wheezy and sputtery. There's a very small range of the throw where this all happens, so it takes a little experimentation to see just how much you want the 4558 to suffer. If you back the power down too much the circuit will cut out completely.
So then you can bring up the, "Fuzz" control and this will start banging the signal coming out of the 4558 into the pair of 2N2222 transistors. Which can get nuts. The malfunctioning 4558 hitting a fuzz can do crazy, oscillation-y stuff. It's all just sputtery and splattery and completely and totally cool.
The, "Tone" control is just a typical pedal tone control. You can take the bright edge off with that if you like. Maybe match it up to your amp better.
Crazy Horse. Glad I tried this. Into a distorting amp this might be really nuts. I'll have to try that when it's not midnight.
Durham Crazy Horse Clone.
This thing is seriously the work of a twisted mind, and I say that in admiration. It's a clone of the Durham Crazy Horse. I guess the idea was to get tones similar to the ones Neil Young got on Ragged Glory and the Weld/Arc stuff. I don't know that it really does that exactly, but the effort yielded something insane in its own right.
The controls are Drive, Fuzz, Tone, Volts and Volume, from left to right. So this pedal is basically two sections. An overdrive using a 4558 opamp that's kind of like a Tube Screamer...and a fuzz pedal using a pair of 2N2222 transistors. The first section is the 'Screamer and you can turn the, "Fuzz" control all the way off while you adjust it.
So you bring up the, "Drive" until it's clipping about where you want it and then you bring down the, "Volts" control. That starves the 4558 (but not the fuzz circuit). At first there's no change, but as you gradually reduce the voltage the 4558 will start to get compressed a little and finally it will get kind of wheezy and sputtery. There's a very small range of the throw where this all happens, so it takes a little experimentation to see just how much you want the 4558 to suffer. If you back the power down too much the circuit will cut out completely.
So then you can bring up the, "Fuzz" control and this will start banging the signal coming out of the 4558 into the pair of 2N2222 transistors. Which can get nuts. The malfunctioning 4558 hitting a fuzz can do crazy, oscillation-y stuff. It's all just sputtery and splattery and completely and totally cool.
The, "Tone" control is just a typical pedal tone control. You can take the bright edge off with that if you like. Maybe match it up to your amp better.
Crazy Horse. Glad I tried this. Into a distorting amp this might be really nuts. I'll have to try that when it's not midnight.