Saturday, 10 August 2019

Top Gear Fuzz Sustain



Top Gear Fuzz

Jus Oborn of Electric Wizard has been seen using one of these so I had to build it. Raunchy fuzz but suffers from lack of output and the Boost control isn't a favorite of mine. So here is two layouts, one stock and the second with volume mod and a more useful Boost control. I also added a small pF cap across base and collector of Q1 to smooth things out a bit.

Stock circuit
Modified circuit.

Third Man Bumble Buzz

Now verified by Frank.

Monday, 5 August 2019

Death By Audio Red/Blue Card Fuzz

With lots of help and footwork by AlexS, we managed to trace Oliver Ackermann's red business card PCB which turned out to be a noisy fuzz monster. Gain, Resonance and Filter controls is very interactive and you can dail in gated fuzz, oscillations and bizarre lo-fi filtered fuzz.

First up, schematic.


And a verified layout.