(DEFX) KRUGER (Adventure Audio Dream Reaper)

[Fuzzonaut]

Another great circuit from the masterminds at Deadend FX. It's a clone of the Adventure Audio Dream Reaper, which is ... well, it can be a lot of things or produce a wide array of different sounds. A lot of them are actually on the "not too crazy" side, I'd say, although the blurbs usually focus on the crazy stuff that can come out of this box.

It was advertised as a "Fuzzy Feedback Modulation Machine" and Deadend describes it as follows: "It's as if a PLL and a Parallel Universe II had a child together, abandoned it, grew up on the streets, and is all grown up now with a huge chip on it's shoulder."

The Force switch engages a built in „pick up emulator“ controlled by the Sense knob.
The Reap knob controls the strength of the input signal.
The Range switch is a low end capacitor selector for the filter that doubles as a frequency range selector when in Dream mode.
EXP controls the Filter knob.
The Dream foot switch activates self-oscillation mode. Woo-hoo!

plug in - turn up - drone out

 

[Hal Harvey]

Whoa beautiful

I almost ordered this board but swapped it out for the super fuzz war on my last order.

 

[Fuzzonaut]

Whoa beautiful

I almost ordered this board but swapped it out for the super fuzz war on my last order.

Thanks! And looking forward to your super fuzz war build report.

 

[Diynot]

Nice build! I appreciate the color coded switch wiring. Now I want to build one, but why DEFX, why the giant board and enclosure for such a small circuit!?

 

[Feral Feline]

Another impressive build from Fuzzonaut... and...

What's this? The gutshot...
...a DEFX board that has enough space for top-jacks, any jacks — wow!

 

[Fuzzonaut]

Nice build! I appreciate the color coded switch wiring. Now I want to build one, but why DEFX, why the giant board and enclosure for such a small circuit!?

Thanks ... and for once, I don't mind the size, as I can't handle 2 footswitches on a 125b, so BB suits me just fine for this one.

And also thanks @Feral Feline - it's indeed crazy that the pcb doesn't cover the upper row of pots, with a random cap or two standing in the way.

 

[Diynot]

I was just thinking that a BB2 sized box is not as absurd as some of their enclosure requirements.

 

[dangerbird]

I just finished my Kruger build and it works but not without some quirks. I never got my hands on one when Adventure Audio was still around but figured this would be the more inexpensive, next best thing. It works but has some issues that I can't tell if its a feature or a bug. Did you have any issues when you built yours initially?

The bias knob just seems like it crushes any tone coming out of it and I can get some self oscillation from the reap switch but it only wants to do it when I max out the sense or the filter and it is not fuzzy, just a blaring horn.

 

[Fuzzonaut]

I just finished my Kruger build and it works but not without some quirks. I never got my hands on one when Adventure Audio was still around but figured this would be the more inexpensive, next best thing. It works but has some issues that I can't tell if its a feature or a bug. Did you have any issues when you built yours initially?

The bias knob just seems like it crushes any tone coming out of it and I can get some self oscillation from the reap switch but it only wants to do it when I max out the sense or the filter and it is not fuzzy, just a blaring horn.

I don't remember any specific issue, no.