MichaelW
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So this might be my last build report for a while.
We have Hurricane Ian coming right over my house as a Category 1 as of the last update sometime Thursday.
We should be feeling the effects starting tomorrow afternoon as the feeder bands start creeping into Central Florida.
Cat 1 is not a big deal for us Floridians. More of an annoyance than anything else. But I will probably be losing power, internet and cell for a bit.
I knew I should have invested in a butane soldering iron
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That and a "Mustang Headphone Amp" hahah. Well, might be time to break out the ukulele and acoustics!
Anyway, I spent most of the day doing storm prep. Got my generators out of storage, blocks of ice frozen and helped out a couple of neighbors get ready. Since I took the day off, I decided to try to get one last build in before the storm hits. I needed something fairly easy and fast so I decided to build the Muffin Fuzz board I got in my last haul from PedalPCB.com.
I've built I think 4 or 5 fuzzes now and starting to get a sense of very wide range of tones available. One thing glaringly missing in my fuzz-education was a Bg Muff. When I started looking over the build docs to prepare for the build I was faced with option overload with all the variants I could build with this board. So I consulted with the resident fuzzolgists @Big Monk and @Coda.
After chatting with them a bit I decided to start with building the Triangle variant. I have a feeling I probably need to order a few more of these and build some of the other variants.
I had recently scored some vintage Telefunken BC239C's from Electronic Goldmine. They all measured between the low 200's and low 400's in gains. Based on @Big Monk's guidance I chose 4 of the lower gain ones to use. I also followed his advice to use linear pots for all the controls.
Other than that, some substitutions I needed were the 4nf cap (used a 3.9n that measured on the high side). The 50nf caps I used 47n's that measured a bit on the high side.
Build went super smooth and fast and when I fired it up I was like WOW. This thing is pretty awesome! Loud as heck too!
It was exactly as @Coda described it would be.
"lots of sustain, singing, sweet highs, big ol' fat low end, with a little bit of crispiness to provide definition..."
That about nails it. It's definitely different from the Fuzz Face variants I've built. It might be my favorite fuzz yet. There's a whole lotta Fripp and Gilmour in this box to explore! Thanks for the guidance @Coda and @Big Monk. Now I gotta order a few more boards.....hahah.
I got these orange enclosures to build the XC Phase before realizing it wouldn't fit. I have one more I'm saving for my Dist+ build when I get to it. Looks very much like I remember the old MXR boxes color. But not the Big Muff Pi I played when I was kid. Although I think I've seen EHX release an orange one at some point. But this is MY Triangle Muff....and it's orange....so......
We have Hurricane Ian coming right over my house as a Category 1 as of the last update sometime Thursday.
We should be feeling the effects starting tomorrow afternoon as the feeder bands start creeping into Central Florida.
Cat 1 is not a big deal for us Floridians. More of an annoyance than anything else. But I will probably be losing power, internet and cell for a bit.
I knew I should have invested in a butane soldering iron
.That and a "Mustang Headphone Amp" hahah. Well, might be time to break out the ukulele and acoustics!
Anyway, I spent most of the day doing storm prep. Got my generators out of storage, blocks of ice frozen and helped out a couple of neighbors get ready. Since I took the day off, I decided to try to get one last build in before the storm hits. I needed something fairly easy and fast so I decided to build the Muffin Fuzz board I got in my last haul from PedalPCB.com.
I've built I think 4 or 5 fuzzes now and starting to get a sense of very wide range of tones available. One thing glaringly missing in my fuzz-education was a Bg Muff. When I started looking over the build docs to prepare for the build I was faced with option overload with all the variants I could build with this board. So I consulted with the resident fuzzolgists @Big Monk and @Coda.
After chatting with them a bit I decided to start with building the Triangle variant. I have a feeling I probably need to order a few more of these and build some of the other variants.
I had recently scored some vintage Telefunken BC239C's from Electronic Goldmine. They all measured between the low 200's and low 400's in gains. Based on @Big Monk's guidance I chose 4 of the lower gain ones to use. I also followed his advice to use linear pots for all the controls.
Other than that, some substitutions I needed were the 4nf cap (used a 3.9n that measured on the high side). The 50nf caps I used 47n's that measured a bit on the high side.
Build went super smooth and fast and when I fired it up I was like WOW. This thing is pretty awesome! Loud as heck too!
It was exactly as @Coda described it would be.
"lots of sustain, singing, sweet highs, big ol' fat low end, with a little bit of crispiness to provide definition..."
That about nails it. It's definitely different from the Fuzz Face variants I've built. It might be my favorite fuzz yet. There's a whole lotta Fripp and Gilmour in this box to explore! Thanks for the guidance @Coda and @Big Monk. Now I gotta order a few more boards.....hahah.
I got these orange enclosures to build the XC Phase before realizing it wouldn't fit. I have one more I'm saving for my Dist+ build when I get to it. Looks very much like I remember the old MXR boxes color. But not the Big Muff Pi I played when I was kid. Although I think I've seen EHX release an orange one at some point. But this is MY Triangle Muff....and it's orange....so......
