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Great build! I absolutely love fuzz or distortion into chorus. Check out how Bob Mould did so with Husker Du in the eighties ("In a Free Land" is a good example, as is "New Day Rising"). Makes it sound even more like your amp is about to get a rip in the speaker or something. That's my reference...

This is an absolute beauty! I appreciate all the information you shared as well.

Looks great! I do still love my Buzzaround after all these years. I'm a sucker for anything in this circuit family.

Your Q2C should be fine with -0.39v. If it's in that range or ever a little higher, you will have better volume knob cleanup from your guitar (just maybe with a bit more background hiss). It should pair well with that -7.0v you have on Q3C as well. Anything below -0.20v on Q2C and you will hear...

I see you have a couple of Russian transistors there. Make sure you have the correct legs in the correct positions. Guitar PCB's board is set up for and EBC pinout, but I think a lot of the Russians are something like ECB. That could explain the odd voltages. In particular, the Q2 collector...

I seriously need to populate the board I have for this! You've inspired me to get off my rear and make it happen before too much more time goes by. I know what you mean about drilling--center punching things just a bit off has been the bane of my existence. I'm finally getting a bit better with...

I'd been hoping someone would post a build report for this soon! 2n3565s sound like a great choice. Were those BC549b similar in terms of hfe? I notice Basic Audio uses those in a lot of their circuits.

I appreciate the honest assessment of the sound. I was interested in the concept but the demos weren't doing it for me sound-wise really. For me modulation does have to work with OD or fuzz.

That looks great! I love the classic movie monster theme. That's one of your hallmarks, kind of like Marvel for thewintersoldier...

When I did mine I went with lower Vf diodes for the octave section as you mentioned and it came out really nice. I made sure those positions had a bit of that "reverse resistance" (i.e. low leakage) as well to get some of the benefit Schottky-types can provide there. I think your choice on the...

I think you might have the first build report for this! I've got a board too that I just need to populate someday here. I'll be curious to hear more about your transistor experiments. Q3 on this circuit has this setup with the diode where it's forcing it to act leaky. That led me to think...

Love it! I'm having a blast with mine as well.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone! @BuddytheReow, that is just a waterslide. I'd like to switch to the no film decal once I run out of the waterslide stuff. You can see some of those cloudy spots underneath even though the picture minimized it a bit! :sneaky:

Thanks Chris! You all know I don't build a lot, but I put love into it when I do.

Hi everyone--finally joining in the fun around here with my first build report on this forum. I sold a Tone Machine build I had done a while back because it was so rough-looking. I wanted a PCB that was pretty much a straight clone with no mods, so this one definitely fit the bill. I did try to...

Whoa! That is nuts. Love it as always.

I like the cat theme! I've often though of putting the Maneki-Neko on a Japanese fuzz circuit like the Super Fuzz of Fuzz Master.

Okay, that is good to hear! I've had my eye on this...

Yeah, I think that's true! I don't think any of the originals sounded exactly the same from one unit to another. I'd like to do a vero of the Zonk Machine version soon in order to try out some of my remaining germanium stash...

That's the funny thing with this circuit--more leakage in Q3 is actually what will give you more smoothness and sustain. Less leakage is what will get that rawer gated sound going. It's a matter of taste I'd say. I like how your build sounds!