DEMO Ain't that a kick in the pants?

[Pauleo1214]

I am currently working through one of the most frustrating streaks of having consecutive issues with my builds. It's all I have not to give up.

This guy tried my patience. With the amount of boards I have fried I feel like I am opening my wallet only to have a gorilla come up and punch me in the nuts.

This one is for the fuzz lovers. One Shika fuzz into a triangular boost. The secret sauce is I have a switch on the transistor in the boost. It normally calls for a BC550 with a hfe of 100. Put in a BC517 with a hfe of 30,000 and it gets spitty and useless. Driven by a high gain fuzz you have yourself a nasty square wave bit fuzz.

Box of all EQ is there for additional boost and tone shaping. You feel this one in the balls for sure.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

 

[JTEX]

Now use it to play this:

 

[Robert]

Ahh, the phlegm brulee mod?

That thing was insane. We still gotta make it a project.

 

[Pauleo1214]

Ahh, the phlegm brulee mod?

That thing was insane. We still gotta make it a project.

We need more bit fuzzes in your shop!

 

[coltonius]

We need more bit fuzzes in your shop!

Shoe Pedals Pixel



(Except the Low Pass works TONS better if you connect lug 1 to C5 and lugs 2-3 to C6/Volume 3..)

 

[Robert]

Shoe Pedals Pixel

(Except the Low Pass works TONS better if you connect lug 1 to C5 and lugs 2-3 to C6/Volume 3..)

Just so I'm sure I understand, we're just changing the taper to anti-log, right?

 

[coltonius]

Just so I'm sure I understand, we're just changing the taper to anti-log, right?

Either the taper needs to change or the wiring does.

Stock calls for an A100k with lugs 1 and 2 connected to C5 and lug 3 connected to C5/Volume 3. The usable range was bunched up, so a C100k with the same wiring would add bass, right? Except more gradually.

I wired my pot like the JHS Superbolt’s Tone control and kept the A100k. It works just like a tone control now (CW is bright, CCW is bass) with plenty of usable range: