Recent content by gila_crisis

Thank you! I was expecting worst: I had some BC550C and MPSA18 to chose from, and to my surprise all were very fine and in a "bias-able" range. Where I had a bit problems was the J201: I have few in stock, but had to jumper the 68k resistor in order to be able to bias. I love these, especially...

Yes that was me! Haven't been there since aeons, does Fennec still exist?

Fresh from the workbench a pair of Infanem clones: blue Driving Notion and bare aluminium 141G. 141G: this was a straight forward build. I went for the G version (somebody who owns both G & T versions reported me that: "G has the most mids for sure. It's not properly a mid boost, but it's way...

I got this kit from Musikding in Germany, and I have a badass plan: I will tweak the muff section to the Hizumitas specs with a pair of mods inspired by another must for Muff lovers: the Earthbound Audio Supercollider.

Lately I got few boards from Mask Audio Electronics. My first idea was to build a Yes and Red/Yellow in the same box (a bit like MAE Maybe meets DeviEver Godzilla), but then instead I decided to build the MAE Business Card fuzz. The result is this pedal (that I call the Perhaps?!?), which is a...

I also got a Shillelagh pcb, now waiting the parts from Musikding.de! I have an original Lastgasp 046, and it's a wonderful take on the Superfuzz, and wanted a spare one since a while. Note: the original LAL 046 also has the Oct control as an internal trim pot!

I forgot to say, that this Kaede has tons of lowend availabel on tap (also with the bass control at zero!) and it does wonders also with synthesizers!!!

I discovered only now about this clone! I have the original Kaede and it's an amazing overdrive! The schematic confirms what I was suspecting since a long time: it's a Timmy kind of overdrive. Clipping also confirms my assumptions I had when I compared Kaede with TubeScreamer and SD1 emulation...

Thanks! I got the enclosure already colored from Banzai Music. It's a cool black sparkling. Here also a demo of the pedal: On some setting it can self oscillate! Also after I shoot the video, I did tweak a bit R19 and went down to about 70k: this way the Sinus position becomes a mid boost...

New DIY fuzz on the bench: the Roland AD50 Double Beat fuzz, built thanks the Aion FX Argus pcb. I did few mods to have more bass and gain range available. I reworked a bit the mid scoop preset, and especially tweaked a lot the Sinus tone preset as it was cutting way to many highs for my taste...

Here my last builds. Top row are 3 Deadend FX boards: these are 3 Lastgasp Art Laboratories clones. White Switchblade (88 Super-Oscillo-Fuzz, with an additional clipping switch), Green Zilla (Green Monster fuzz clone) and Black Octone (Octavella octa-fuzz clone). I really enjoy Deadend boards...

This fuzz is amazing, and really invites you to try and mod stuff! I was comparing the Tonebender Mk2 with the Carbon fuzz schematics, and I noticed that on the Bender's Q2 there's not a resistor going from emitter to ground (R7 on the Carbon/Ash, 1k). I installed a switch to jumper R7 et voilà...

Now it's done! I decided I needed a Bass control as well (super handy if you use this with synthesizers), so I replaced C1 with the Fat control you find on the Basic Audio Scarab Deluxe schematic (I used 1nF and 220uF caps, with a 100K pot). Now we're going places with this one!!!

This is the Carbon Black (EQD Black Ash fuzz) I've built today. It's a very nice take on these Tonebender MK2 fuzzes, on which I did few mods and tweaks. Transisitor are 2N2369A (metal cans, I found these on musikding.de, and were rated as the lowest gain available in stock). I followed few...

Here it is my Mutagen fuzz! Wonderful, super vintage and doom/sludge fuzz. Now I understand why David Torn likes this one a lot! Report to my build: I used the transistors I had laying around in my workshop. I found this circuit to be very picky about transistor and hFe/gain, especially...