What Fuzz you have so far?

[SirFlintstone]

That's making me think many, well very many, years back when I was a guitar playing hippy child from the back woods and bought a muff fuzz from a catalog at the local TV shop

The vid has nice licks here and there too...

 

[syscokid]

The free pots from MXR/Dunlop came in today. Very cool of Dunlop for sure.

Yes, indeed!

Ok, I know this thread has been dormant for a few days, & I don't even have this fuzz pedal, but hot damn, I think I've just discovered my next fuzz build. Check this out

Cheers

If you build it, I hope you can come up with a really cool looking enclosure like the Spitfire...

 

[mdubya]

Ok, I know this thread has been dormant for a few days, & I don't even have this fuzz pedal, but hot damn, I think I've just discovered my next fuzz build. Check this out

Cheers

That is one wicked video! :dood:

I played a Roger Mayer Purple Mongoose and it was awesome. Best sounding Fuzz Face I have played. This Spitfire sounds like another winner!

 

[JohnnyGoo]

Awesome

 

[jtcnj]

This post is motivating me to get going on the Fuzz Face build now that the 18w is running, less a cab.

 

[ivan H]

I played a Roger Mayer Purple Mongoose and it was awesome. Best sounding Fuzz Face I have played. This Spitfire sounds like another winner!

The Mongoose & Spitfire have the same basic circuit, only a few cap value changes to voice them differently. A 3 pole, double throw switch can be used to switch between the two. The good folk at a stompbox forum have provided a Vero board layout where the simplicity of the circuit can be seen

I checked against the schematic's to make sure they had them right. Cheers

 

[Catmandue]

Very nice. Love it! Three 60/70s artists came to mind when I heard this demo: Steppenwolf, Hendrix and Lead Zeppelin. ( I know, I spelled it correctly to confuse all the Americans reading this! LOL ) A very cool sounding fuzz. Now you got me curious on this pedal. I wonder is it had germanium mismatched trannys?

 

[Catmandue]

I have an MXR classic distortion that I traded two cheap guitar stands for. Didn't work when I got it home. All three pots were sheared clean from where they mounted to the circuit board. They couldn't be saved and I couldn't find any on the web, so I contacted MXR. They said they'd send me new ones for free and asked for my address (mighty cool of MXR/Dunlop). I gave them my address, still waiting on the pots, but if they make it in I'll try to do a before/during/after thing with it. To be honest I don't know if it'll even work with new pots - lol.

UPDATE...................................

The free pots from MXR/Dunlop came in today. Very cool of Dunlop for sure. I've got 'em installed and all is working fine. I even had a power supply that works with it. Here are a couple pics for the hey of it:

Old and New Pots - notice the old pots missing their lugs
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New Pots Installed
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All back together
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I know, exciting right...

Right on! I like it when things work out well like that.

 

[RVA]

I would like to throw my clips in the ring since I get to play with the settings this way. Here are 5 clips with 5 pics of the settings for each clip in the order played. The guitar is my new green strat, bridge humbucker only

https://soundcloud.com/user-903662928/fuzz/s-xHJPJ

No filter, average settings

low pass filter

high pass filter

saturated

rolled back gain, channel volume boost

 

[RVA]

That things the size of some of my amps ! LOL I want to hear the Ronnie pedal I see it right next to that mini amp above.
thing has to many knobbies for me.

Lots of knobs means lots of options!!! Ronnie got busted. In jail without the bail!

 

[ivan H]

I see a Sonic Research stroboscopic tuner in the pics there RVA, how do you like it. I have the Planet Waves tru strobe which is about 1/3 the price but if I ever need another I think it'll be one of those. Cheers

 

[Catmandue]

That's making me think many, well very many, years back when I was a guitar playing hippy child from the back woods and bought a muff fuzz from a catalog at the local TV shop

The vid has nice licks here and there too...

The Muff Fuzz was my first ever pedal. Like an idiot I traded it for something stupid. I had the one with the 1/4" male mono phone plug. It went left to right instead of the today standard of right to left. I've seen a picture of Hendrix with one just like the one I had plugged into a plexi. Those were out before the Big Muff Pi.

 

[mdubya]

Very nice. Love it! Three 60/70s artists came to mind when I heard this demo: Steppenwolf, Hendrix and Lead Zeppelin. ( I know, I spelled it correctly to confuse all the Americans reading this! LOL ) A very cool sounding fuzz. Now you got me curious on this pedal. I wonder is it had germanium mismatched trannys?

Silicon, I believe.

 

[RVA]

I see a Sonic Research stroboscopic tuner in the pics there RVA, how do you like it. I have the Planet Waves tru strobe which is about 1/3 the price but if I ever need another I think it'll be one of those. Cheers

It is perfection. It allows for perfect inronating. It has programable presets, and for me that meant programming the buzz feitin offsets. It is easy to read. It works well as an always on device so you can silent tune or not. I got the recommendation from Tom Anderson, who has 1 on every bench.

 

[ivan H]

I seem to remember reading where someone else said about Tom Anderson using them somewhere else. Incredibly accurate. A lot of people prefer them to a Peterson it seems. The Planet Waves is good, also has the Buzz Feiten system presets & is accurate to +/- 0.1 cent, but the Sonic Research I believe is accurate to +/- 0.02 cent, so are in a league of their own. Cheers

 

[ivan H]

Silicon, I believe.

Yes, 1 silicon transistor, 1 IC & 2 silicon small signal diodes as clipping diodes. Cheers

 

[SirFlintstone]

The Muff Fuzz was my first ever pedal. Like an idiot I traded it for something stupid. I had the one with the 1/4" male mono phone plug. It went left to right instead of the today standard of right to left. I've seen a picture of Hendrix with one just like the one I had plugged into a plexi. Those were out before the Big Muff Pi.

I can't even remember what mine looked like. I miss that little tv shop I bought mine from, which is now long since closed. They didn't have a lot of music stuff, but they had enough for the small town I grew up in. I bought the complete Alfred's 1-12 learn how to play guitar from there on layaway and went thru that cover to cover many times. I paid like two bucks here and there type thing when I had it - lol. I also bought a ton of La' Bella guitar strings from 'em the same way. They were just hanging there on the wall covered with dust calling out my name...

 

[SirFlintstone]

Traded a set of generic 6-inline tuners from the two cheap strats I bought (both had bad necks) for a Bad Monkey (not a fuzz, but...).

Here's a link to the cheap strat thread for info on that:
Interesting new $58.89 with free shipping cheap strat type guitar

The Bad Monkey was an unhappy monkey when I got it. one of the connectors on the battery connector was missing and there was and oddball resistor solder on the back of the circuit board for some reason. I assume someone tried to mod it. Fixed that and it's now a happy bad monkey. Here's some pics:

Unhappy Monkey

Unhappy Monkey (close up of batter connector)

Unhappy Monkey (close up of oddball resistor)

Happy Bad Monkey


Works great now and seems to be a very nice tube overdrive type pedal...

 

[JohnnyGoo]

My Favorite.I got 2 of them case one fails .

 

[eSGEe]

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