Made this one and put in a DPDT where the diodes go switching between silicon and germnanium diodes - inspired by Earthquaker Devices Fuzzmaster General. Make it a DPDT on-off-on, and the middle section (no diodes) makes it work like a Green Ringer, I'm told. Very cool mod - can recommend it to builders.
What a nasty pig this is. I guess I've never really heard a real Fuzzmaster. The up octave is very prominent all over the fretboard. Especially with the right germanium diode. So far 1N34A's are giving the clearest octave. I also like D9K's and 1N270's. Sesh's advice to add a switch and throw some silicons at it and even omit diodes was a good one. Oh yeah, watch your pinouts. I threw 2N3904's in not thinking of where the emitter was on the layout and had absolutely no sound at all. Thanks Sesh! and fuzzhead, hope you're healing up nicely.
Made this one and put in a DPDT where the diodes go switching between silicon and germnanium diodes - inspired by Earthquaker Devices Fuzzmaster General. Make it a DPDT on-off-on, and the middle section (no diodes) makes it work like a Green Ringer, I'm told. Very cool mod - can recommend it to builders.
ReplyDeleteIs this layout a more compact version of the Fuzzmaster w/ Beaker mods (as seen on tagboard effects)?
ReplyDeleteOK - it appears that this one is slightly different than the tagboard one...does anyone have an opinion on the differences?
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What a nasty pig this is. I guess I've never really heard a real Fuzzmaster. The up octave is very prominent all over the fretboard. Especially with the right germanium diode. So far 1N34A's are giving the clearest octave. I also like D9K's and 1N270's. Sesh's advice to add a switch and throw some silicons at it and even omit diodes was a good one. Oh yeah, watch your pinouts. I threw 2N3904's in not thinking of where the emitter was on the layout and had absolutely no sound at all. Thanks Sesh! and fuzzhead, hope you're healing up nicely.
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