1590a's & Bazz Fuss's

Had this chrome looking 1590a in my stock for a while. Too chrome to paint. Decided to get something made into it today, and being fuzz lover, went with the Bazz Fuss. A well worn, well known, dead simple fuzz circuit...that I had never built before. Low parts count (5), easily mod-able, and a pretty good sound. It's a good idea to socket the output capacitor.

NOS ftw

Finally got my hands on NOS components and turret board. Decided to build and Electra. Used a 2n3904(modern) for the transistor, and for diodes a 1n34a and ba100. The resistors are Allen Bradly. Expect to see more builds like this.

Layout courtesy of Forrest Whitesides

From out the junk drawer

This Logan 5 pseudo ring mod was another project that got pushed aside. Happy now that it's up and running, cause it sounds cool as hell, and one of my favorite finishes no doubt. Will try and get clips up. Here's the project page for anyone interested.

A little something different

This one was in the drawer for a while. An Electro Harmonix Pulsar, the older/original version. It didn't work right when I first put it together, so off to the side it went. Pulled this and a couple others out recently and got them all working.

A friend gave me the pcb, but it was made @ Pigeon FX. The layout used, along with more info on tweaks, fixes, etc can be found at Tonepad. I highly recommend swapping the listed rate control value of a100k with b10k. It will fix the sweep issues.

I'm still working on my etching (as if you couldn't tell). The extra switch will momentarily change to a square wave shape as long as it's held down.

New Face

In one of my earliest posts, I showed an orange Fuzz Face that I had painted (but not built). That was about 2 years ago so I decided to repaint it...it had some chips here and there and some of the labels were coming off.
Next to the FF, there is a voltage divider I made out of boredom. Had a guy ask me to build him one last month so figured why not two? A diagram of how to build your own can be found @ Beavis Audio.

Another shot of the voltage divider. I used a vintage carbon comp from a busted record player, and leads clipped from other builds.

This is the divider for the customer...love that knob!

30 down!

It's been about a month now, since I started building for another company. As of a week or so ago, there have been 30 pedals built. Waiting on some enclosures, etc, and then it's back to work.

Booyakashah

Loading up on parts. Some of these are from the guy I'm working for. Others are for my own builds.

Enclosures!