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I have another question before I build mine. The current production model has 4 trim pots And this is from the FAQ (emphasis mine): Can I adjust the trim pots in my Barbershop overdrive? As it says on the Barbershop PCB, adjust nothing. The trim pots were put in the pedal to ease the...

I think the MKI might be the best fuzz sound ever but it's an on or off pedal, no dynamics. I'm actually happy playing my out of phase Fenders into a Fuzz Face. It sounds like a chainsaw and close to an MKI with a wah on. All I need is a new tone pot, linear or rev log, so I can do the wah...

The MKII is easy enough. I also have one on a breadboard that sounds similar and it also cleans up eventually byt more slowly than a FF. The MKI OTOH is my white whale. I noticed I need around 8V on Q3c or it won't sound right, and getting there with additional resistors sucks volume and high...

Wow very cool, congratulatoins on a fantastic job!

The first one

It's the MK2 then. A Fuzz Face with a transistor stage in front. Those are the gain ranges. You want leakage in Q2 and Q3 above 100uA. Q3 should be around -8V

I also bought a batch of these and had to trash most of them. Which Tone Bender? There are at least 4 different circuits.

IIRC: the SPDT chooses the LFO for phaser B, A or B - it can be independent or it can be controlled by phaser A. I think it's A in the up position. The DPDT chooses whether the LFOs are synced or not - Normal in the up position, reverse in the down position. I gleaned this from build reports...

This looks beautiful but it better ship with matching socks.

Lose the nylon washer and this will be bloodless.

I was absent from the forum for a long while and came back to no Fig and was really sad. His contests (I even won one), sense of humor, encouragement and all around wholesomeness really made this forum a special part of the internet. It still is. Here's to you, @fig!

My Electrovibe Sounds awesome thanks to you, man!

I have a Pinecil, similar to the TS101, and use a 65W 20V phone charger with a PD USB port. This was the maximum power the iron accepted when I bought it.

It's totally arbitrary but to me any value below 100uA is low leakage and any value above 200uA I consider high leakage. Usually if it's about 500uA the transistor will be almost unusable either because of excessive gating or excessive hiss. In my experiments, biasing low-leakage transistors...

High leakage Fuzz Face = Tone Bender 1.5 You should get high voltage on Q2c around 8V. And then you add the first stage and you have a TBII. So you need leaky germaniums to understand what the fuss is all about, none of that silicon riff raff :)

You can also use this daughterboard with built-in boost https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/pcb633/

This is a silicon Fuzzrite so it's thin and it struggles to reach unity. You can increase the 22k resistor to ground for more bass. A good idea is to put it on a switch so you can get a bass and volume boost, the latter depending on your amp. Put it on a foot switch with a dedicated LED maybe...

From what I've seen high leakage (>100uA) gives 7 to 8 volts on Q2c and that makes it sound crispier than a Fuzz Face. This one sounds dangerous! Great work!

No transistor readings and no demo, what a tease! Don't leave use blueballed like this, mano :)

Perfect drilling I say! Did you match the caps and resistors in the octave section for maximum octavageness? My Squidward stopped working BTW. I built it with the Intelligent Relay board to totally rip off the EQD Tentacle but the cheap switch crapped out on me. I trashed the board and built a...