I made this little devil for a friend of mine in Austria, it’s a fuzz distortion in the tradition of Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones and all these other strange dudes in the 60s and 70s. It’s a pretty straight forward design, you can find schematics all over the internet – basically clipping the incoming signal by means of transistor saturation. I used 2 Germanium NPN transistors for this pedal as they apparently sound much better than the silicone ones.
This custom design includes the strange idea to have the knobs stand at 12 ‘o clock when they are fully turned up – one knob is for volume the other one sets the amount of fuzz given to the signal. Other than that there’s not a lot more to say than: back in black!!
Sound sample following soon!
