There was a very enthusiastic turn out at the last pedal building workshop. We had some successful bread boarding, drilled a few enclosures, and debugged a couple problem pedals. Thanks to Tayda Electronics, and Stomp Box Parts for sponsoring the…
I looked at the ETI Hyper Fuzz in a post, and again in another post. As mentioned this shares a lot with the Crowther Prunes and Custard. The original ETI Hyper Fuzz had a complicated, or at least confusing to…
I wrote about this circuit sample here. Mark Hammer posted this over at DYStompboxes.com forum. I think it was probably meant for synthesizers. It looks a lot like the kinds of things people are doing with guitar pedals! I used…
I wonder where Jeff Doucette of Sustain Punch infamy is today? hard to believe that was a big deal 20 years ago. I built a clone of this many years ago, and it was my favorite Big Muff at the…
I broke out the synthesizer and ran a sine wave into the ETI Hyper Fuzz, and examined the output on the Mordax Data. I think the fuzz tone is good the scope view is not super exciting, looks like a…
I made another one of these Bluesbreaker variants. The first one sounded pretty through a Fender Champ, might as well make another! My eyes are not as good as they used to be. I had a solder bridge, and couple…
Someone posted a comment about my original Timmy/Jimmy build. I was never happy with this and not sure if I got it right. It didn’t sound bad, it didn’t sound great, to me. Maybe it was right but Timmy just…
This is a clone of the Frantone peach Fuzz. The signal chain is something like: In –> op-amp –> LM386 –> LM386 –> BMP Style Tone Control –> Out My first build sounded great but, I had forgotten the power…
ETI Hyper Fuzz is strange Fuzz from the 1988 Electronics Today International Guide to Making Music. I found it here. I wrote more about this here. This is my modification to the original circuit. I replaced what looks like an…
I bought a bunch of chips from Aliexpress. Are they legit? I don’t know, and I’m not sure how to check them. They seem to work. But, I’m using them in dirt boxes, if the sound is low fi and…
What is it Hard clipping distortion. I put this in the same family as the Pro Co Rat. They are distant relations. Boss says: The DS-1 Distortion is a true icon in the world of guitar effects. Introduced in 1978,…