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So I built this Super Fuzz clone using the Lectric FX Pork Rind PCB. It's kind of a cool take on the circuit because the original just had two knobs and a Tone switch. This replaces the Tone switch with a potentiometer and adds a Starve control to pull down the operating voltage, since some people said these pedals didn't sound good with a fresh battery. Also, there's an internal trimmer that allows you to choose how much of an octave effect comes in.
OK, a couple of observations.
First off, people used to jokingly claim that the controls served no purpose and these pedals were either On or Off. Yeah, there's no, "Subtle" setting of this circuit, apparently.
Second, at full voltage with the octave trimmer cranked up this pedal will do horrible things. Things that in no way could be considered legal in most states. Things that sound like what I imagine the ambient sound in the electrical room sounds like when one of those high-rises suffers from harmonic distortion in the power lines that causes its main transformers to rip themselves apart. This is not a pedal where, "Every sound is great!" Unless by, "Great!" you mean, "Terrifying!"
Third...wow. I'm gonna have to mess with this one and see where its Happy Place lives, 'cause this pedal ain't the friendliest girl at the party.
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.
These beauties are always a wintertime treat. They grow in a solar greenhouse through the summer. I was given a single rosette, now have a ten inch dish of them.
So, yeah...five knob Fuzz Face build. Someone had asked me about using BC209C transistors and I’ve never really built silicon Fuzz Face projects. Pretty much always germanium. So I decided to experiment. Usually with germanium the common wisdom is for Q1 to be around 70 hFE and Q2 to be around 130 hFE. Silicon transistors are way hotter. This has a 400 hFE in Q1 and a 528 hFE in Q2. Sounds cool to me. Cleans up with the guitar’s Volume knob like it should. Maybe the ratios are more important than the voltage.
The birth of the Fool Audio Research, 'Infinite Fuzz' pedal.
OK, here's Sunday's project. I took that first board that I'd discarded because I thought the circuit wasn't working (even though it was probably working fine) and I rebuilt it. So the testbed-y sockets are gone and I'm gonna build this out today and put it in the blue pedal enclosure. New-production germanium transistors from New Jersey Semiconductor, matched at 73 hFE for Q1 and 90 hFE for Q2.
If everything works as hoped (and I see no reason why it wouldn't, but that doesn't always mean anything), I'll offer this pedal up as a...I dunno, "blemish" or, "factory second" or whatever your euphemism of choice is for something that's been handled more than a new product shoulda been.
Anyway, I'm kind of excited about these because even the originals weren't on turrets. This is one of those things that lots of people build out, but they almost always use printed circuit boards to do it. I love the idea of a hand-wired version of this circuit on turret boards.
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I want to wear this coat every day! It is the muppet coat I didn’t know I needed.
I found this lime fuzzy coat at the Goodwill, washed it, and wore it the next day (still a bit damp). I love it when I find something that I just can’t wait to wear.
Jacket, thrifted. Shirt, INC (thrifted). Overalls, Free People. Loafers, Seychelles. Earrings, Paparazzi.
Front: Felicia "Fuzz" Anderson, Ted Robertson and Pat Smith. Back: Henry Anderson and Dorman Little.
Taken at Goose Creek State Park. Shot with Nikon D7000 with a Nikon 70-200 2.8 vr Lens at 2.8 appeture and and 1600 ISO.
Been catching Fuzz Freeman for awhile now. First time catching his Gypsy project 'Caravan of Thieves'. Very cool band, great players. Check them out at caravanofthieves.com
Fuzz, my mom's friend's dog, is the sweetest thing in the world. <3 I'll be dogsitting him next Friday, so there will be many more pictures then.
The fuzz factory circuit housed in a pre-fab stainless steel enclosure with a bright orange LED and guard cat.
This officer with full kit and flak jacket in a sleepy village reminds me of Simon Pegg in Hot Fuzz.
Funniest film I've seen in ages.