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Clone of the red llama fuzz. An interesting circuit and a different fuzz sound than your average 60's copy. Something about the 4049 IC circuit gives this fuzz an 'airey' sound, and when the gain is dialed down to about 3 o'clock it's a great bass OD/fuzz.
Three years ago when I started Fool, the only way I could raise enough money to get it off the ground was by selling nearly all the instruments and effects that I'd accumulated over the last thirty years.
In some cases that felt liberating. You kind of end up making that stuff a part of you, even though some of the purchases were made when I was a much different person. I don't know about anyone else, but once I own something I just find ways to make it work for whatever I need to do, even if it's kind of not the right solution. However, with the old stuff gone, it's been nice occasionally buying something new to sink into.
Case in point, these discontinued reissue Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi NYC pedals were being blown out by Sam Ash for $80 with free shipping and I couldn't help myself. I've built Big Muff clones, but I've never owned a real one before. This actually sounds pretty awesome.
Barring some disaster, I'll be making this work for whatever I need to do (involving fuzz) right up until I stop needing to do things.
The penultimately rare fuzz pedal. Not to be confused with the Sam Ash Fuzzz-Boxx or Fuzzola. This pedal is RUDE! Tons of sustain and fuzzy-buzz!
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The penultimately rare fuzz pedal. Not to be confused with the Sam Ash Fuzzz-Boxx or Fuzzola. This pedal is RUDE! Tons of sustain and fuzzy-buzz!
Here's a thing I've been meaning to try out for a while. A Skreddy Screwdriver. I did this on an old Madbean Cosmopolitan board. As you can see, the Screwdriver combines a MOSFET input driving a silicon BC109 driving a germanium AC130. Very interesting topology. The MOSFET overcomes the typical impedance issues with fuzz pedals, the silicon stage gives it a stable driver and then the final stage is the germanium, "tone" transistor.
The penultimately rare fuzz pedal. Not to be confused with the Sam Ash Fuzzz-Boxx or Fuzzola. This pedal is RUDE! Tons of sustain and fuzzy-buzz!
Yeah, I'm an idiot. I tested it with a few riffs using the neck pickup of my Telematic and it sounded awesome. So I went ahead and soldered in the transistors and then happened to switch to the bridge pickup and the sputtering started. Yeah, it's awesome within a certain note range with certain pickups, but it's a sputtering mess in other situations and with some pickups there are only a few places on the gain ("Attack") knob that actually work. You can hear the transistor lose bias and drop signal.
So...uh...what I was expecting. More transistor swaps. That's the thing with these old, non-adjustable circuits. You have to get the transistor balance perfect.
Well, it's pretty.
The Fool Audio Research Infinite Fuzz. It's a Fuzz Face clone with sockets so you can switch from Germanium to Silicon transistors.
Here are the transistors from this first one. The Silicon pair are 2N3799 transistors (the pair on the right). Q1 is 159 hFE and Q2 is 227 hFE. Q1 is identified with a black dot on top of its metal encapsulation. The Germanium transistors are a recent-production AC128 (all the way on the left) in Q1 and a vintage 2N527 (to the right of the AC128) in Q2. The AC128 is 72 hFE and the 2N527 is 126 hFE.
I'm sending the Buzzaround out to one of the Troika backers who missed the pedal deal last night, so I wanted to do one last test with it before it goes.
I put the 2N598 back into it and soldered a 10 picofarad capacitor to a pair of alligator clips so I could connect the cap between the Base and Collector of the '598. I figured it might tame the brightness, but it made almost no difference at all.
So while I had the thing opened up, I tried a couple of different silicon transistors with it. Which of course don't perform quite right because they don't have any leakage and this circuit depends on leakage from Q3. So they sound gated and sputtery as the note decays, but you can tell the overall tonality. The vintage BC179 actually didn't sound as bright as the 2N598 or the 2N527. This is something I've kind of suspected. It may be that a good germanium transistor basically sounds like a silicon transistor. The overall, "warmth" of germanium may really be the sound of really crappy germanium transistors that can't reproduce the high frequency range very well. Because a strong germanium transistor sounds just about as harsh as silicon. Although these robust transistors are great in the linear way they respond to the Volume control of a guitar.
I need to do some experiments with pairing fuzz circuits and tone-shaping circuits. Maybe pre and post tweaking with something like Harmonic Energizer circuits will give me some ideas. Or not. As always, Your Mileage May Vary and all that.
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Just to give you guys a heads-up, I got in a couple of pounds of new powder colors yesterday. That's, "Double Blue Vein" on the left, which is supposed to be two different colors of blue all kind of liquid-light-show'd together. On the right is a similar thing that's supposed to be orange and silver, called (appropriately enough), "Orange/Silver Vein."
I've got a shipment of enclosures that should be here Monday. My plan is to do the big ones in the orange color for the Fuzz Face boards and the small ones in the double-blue for the Rangemasters.
I'd like to list a few of each next week, if all goes well.
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