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Here's my Bass Dude, sounds glorious. I wanted the Gain to stay clean for at least 50% and then get into OD territory, so I put a 12AY7 / 6072A into V1 ... and a 7025 WA in V2, both from TAD. Turned out pretty good, here are some notes on the E string to illustrate. quick test of the gain...

Another Muff? Sure, why not, there's no such thing as too many muffs. The filter options are an interesting add-on to the circuit. There are different cool sounds in that box. It's not my favourite muff circuit, but still adds something new. Easy build, although the type 2 switch needed some...

aka Lastgasp Art Laboratories Octavella. Pretty unruly octave fuzz that shreds your signal to pieces. Let me borrow the Deadend blurb, as it fits so nicely: "This circuit takes your signal, converts it to a filthy fuzz, drags it's nails across a chalkboard, and then adds a screaming octave to...

A ring modulator based on Tim Escobedos Thing Modulator with Starve control, hard clipping diodes, crossover distortion diodes and a feedback switch. I messed things up, fried the LM567, messed more things up while trying to fix things and added a boost at the output. It sounds terrible, don't...

This one is based on the Southampton Ictineo which itself claims to be a 1:1 copy of the Zeibek Designer Submarine. A preamp/EQ for bass - that was good enough to consider it - but it's probably @Mentaltossflycoon fault that I actually built this, after reading his build report. ;) Although...

Good morning. Some Deadend stuff, if you don't mind. I jumped on their Smallsound/Bigsound train and have also enjoyed their Lastgasp Art Laboratories kick for a while now. Here's a Zuperbee, aka BUZZZ, another take on the good old Superfuzz, with some very cool twists and/or extras. A lot of...

And I recently boxed up this one as well. The Fornicus aka Smallsound/Bigsound F*ck OD. The circuit has been examined and slightly expanded (Sag Depth) by Deadend FX. I like their choice and treatment of circuits, but - as stated before - I'm usually not too fond of their PCB layout. On the...

This is Fuzzdogs take on the Fender (Shields) Blender, after "having spent the wedge" on one. They simplified things, as they didn't like it without the expanded mode engaged. I usually follow their advice, as they know what they are doing. So, no foot switch or toggle switch for expand, it's...

This board somehow ended up in my cart, I don't remeber why, I guess I was just curious? Anyway, it's a pretty nice and versatile boost to grit to distortion box, I'd say. (Only tried it on bass, on 9V, so far.) I'll probably gift it to my guitar player who also plays cello, I think it might...

This one got some raving reviews and I wanted to know what all the fuzz is about .... And oh my, it does live up to the hype, sounds amazing. I'll probably keep the "MODE" switch down, because moar BASS, although there are some interesting textures when up, depending on the other settings...

You can never have enough fuzzes, so here we go. Moonn Doom Doom, which is a Megalith, known for a crushing wall of fuzz, but can also do a lot of different sounds thanks to the filter things going on. An amazing circuit, that slays on guitar and bass. The "More" is wired always on, I mean...

This is only my second tube pedal, so I was working very slowly and carefully, measured compenents before soldering, checking solder joints, etc. Then, when powering up .... there was sound!!! And what a sound this thing delivers. Oh boy, big fat sweet distortion toanz for days. LOVE IT! And...

I've built my fair share of DBA circuits and really like the noise and signal destruction they provide. So, when Moonn came out with those 2 PCBs that might or might not recreate a pedal that might or might not exist and that Mr Ackermann might or might not have built just for himself, I had to...

I grabbed these 2 PCBs just because they seemed interesting. First up is something based on a schematic found in the Experimentalists Annonymous DIY Archives, labelled as "old school fuzz", this one: Now, if anybody can tell me, what the "Noise Controll" (5kB) actually does, that would be...

The Widogast is based on the Dunwich Wizard Fuzz, which itself is based on - or maybe rather inspired by - the big muff. I've built this stock a while ago and then sold the Dunwich Wizard I had as they sounded more or less the same. There was another one of those PCBs in my stash, so this...

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, another fuzz pedal, man. Built on a RAD PCB, that got sent to me over the pond by a very cool dude: @peccary ! As we both love that movie that ties the room together, there was only one way to go regarding graphics. I got some Beyschlag MBB-SMA 1%...

The Buzzaround, a circuit that I love! I've had a tagboard mojo version (that someone else built) at my feet for ages ... and when I got into building, made the Fuzzdog version, but that one has been mostly sitting on the shelf. Now, I'm circling back to those gnarly, unruly sounds. First up, a...

I finally took a deep beath and wired up some of the vero things that have been lying around on my bench, staring at me. First up, a Frost Giant Massif, the Four Horsemen Famine edition. I think that means two extra controls, Fuzz and Bias. Now, this started with two pieces of scrap vero, that...

It's a clone of the DBA Reverberation Machine, says the build doc. My guitar player had a 1:1 clone of the DBA pedal on his board for a quite a while. He got that years ago, through evilbay .... One day, I made one of those Moonn things for me, with added Feedback and Dry Kill mods ... and...

This is one of my favourite bass fuzzes, recreating the Silver Rose V1. There are two ciruits running in parallel and you can blend them: - Superfuzz, with mids switch. - Opamp Muff, with tone bypass switch Add a clean blend to that and presence/bass to further tweak the crushing wall of fuzz...