Fender Blender clone.
This is a clone of the old Fender Blender fuzz/octave pedal. It's kind of like an Ampeg Scrambler...sort of. You can fade in the clean signal.
Now, a word of warning. If you fade completely to the clean signal, the level is lower than your direct signal bypassing the pedal. This is an issue with the circuit, but of course nobody's going to buy this pedal to fade completely to the clean tone. With some of the effected signal, "Blended" in your effected signal will have a significant volume boost over your direct signal, if that's what you want. It doesn't take much blending to get to unity gain.
At the highest distortion settings, you're going to hear some octave effects on the high notes. This is natural. Well, not, "natural," but it's what this circuit does. It's kind of an insane fuzz. Which is good for people who like that kind of thing, but can be a strange surprise if you were expecting a Fuzz Face.
The Yellow LED is beside the effect on/bypass footswitch. The Red LED is by the, "Boost" footswitch. That should be explained, as well. This circuit gets a boost through bypassing the Tone control. Tone controls that aren't active suffer from something called, "Insertion Loss." Meaning that by existing, they're robbing the circuit of some signal. Which is why some amps with 20 knobs don't sound as good as simpler amps. In any case, this circuit gets a big gain boost that you can kick in my bypassing the Tone control. Depending on the sound of your guitar through this pedal, that can be a cool thing or a less than cool thing. Best to engage the boost, see which of your instruments sounds best through the pedal and then remember that if you want to kick it on and off during a song.
So there's my big explanation of the Blender circuit.
Fender Blender clone.
This is a clone of the old Fender Blender fuzz/octave pedal. It's kind of like an Ampeg Scrambler...sort of. You can fade in the clean signal.
Now, a word of warning. If you fade completely to the clean signal, the level is lower than your direct signal bypassing the pedal. This is an issue with the circuit, but of course nobody's going to buy this pedal to fade completely to the clean tone. With some of the effected signal, "Blended" in your effected signal will have a significant volume boost over your direct signal, if that's what you want. It doesn't take much blending to get to unity gain.
At the highest distortion settings, you're going to hear some octave effects on the high notes. This is natural. Well, not, "natural," but it's what this circuit does. It's kind of an insane fuzz. Which is good for people who like that kind of thing, but can be a strange surprise if you were expecting a Fuzz Face.
The Yellow LED is beside the effect on/bypass footswitch. The Red LED is by the, "Boost" footswitch. That should be explained, as well. This circuit gets a boost through bypassing the Tone control. Tone controls that aren't active suffer from something called, "Insertion Loss." Meaning that by existing, they're robbing the circuit of some signal. Which is why some amps with 20 knobs don't sound as good as simpler amps. In any case, this circuit gets a big gain boost that you can kick in my bypassing the Tone control. Depending on the sound of your guitar through this pedal, that can be a cool thing or a less than cool thing. Best to engage the boost, see which of your instruments sounds best through the pedal and then remember that if you want to kick it on and off during a song.
So there's my big explanation of the Blender circuit.