mosekonenbrygger
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Hi everyone!
First post - been buying way more PCBs than i've actually build thus far. Been a fan of guitar fx for a while now, without actually playing guitar.
I have a few pedals that i've been wanting to trace, since i never use them and just want to make sure I could potentially build them, should the need for such a thing araise. So I took some gutshots and really just wanted to share them for the sake of it.
Anyway; this first one is a rare Fjord Fuzz pedal called Mjölner. At it's heart it is a MK2 Tonebender but it goes way beyond that and you don't really use it as a MK2. It makes alot of noise, In a sentence. The two lower knobs are both starve controls. One starves one of the transistors and the other starves the entire circuit. I wrote the creator about it and even though he didn't remember which was which i am pretty sure the flower starves the transistor (as in a few other FF designs) and the frog starves the circuit. It's a pedal that rewards experimentation and actually putting things before it in the chain. Alot of drive really pays off. You can get suboctave effects by adjusting the starve.
According to him, they only made a few because the pedal would effect other pedals' power in the chain somewhat
Please let me know if you cannot make out the part numbers and i will find a loop and do some writing down.
PS. if anyone can help me identify some of the smd parts i would appriciate it. Particulary what I assume are Transistor (the all black ones). Or Just where I should propably start when trying out transistors. I am not that well versed in alot of the pedal building still.
And ofcourse if you do end up tracing it before me - do tell, lol.
Cheers
Lars
First post - been buying way more PCBs than i've actually build thus far. Been a fan of guitar fx for a while now, without actually playing guitar.
I have a few pedals that i've been wanting to trace, since i never use them and just want to make sure I could potentially build them, should the need for such a thing araise. So I took some gutshots and really just wanted to share them for the sake of it.
Anyway; this first one is a rare Fjord Fuzz pedal called Mjölner. At it's heart it is a MK2 Tonebender but it goes way beyond that and you don't really use it as a MK2. It makes alot of noise, In a sentence. The two lower knobs are both starve controls. One starves one of the transistors and the other starves the entire circuit. I wrote the creator about it and even though he didn't remember which was which i am pretty sure the flower starves the transistor (as in a few other FF designs) and the frog starves the circuit. It's a pedal that rewards experimentation and actually putting things before it in the chain. Alot of drive really pays off. You can get suboctave effects by adjusting the starve.
According to him, they only made a few because the pedal would effect other pedals' power in the chain somewhat
Please let me know if you cannot make out the part numbers and i will find a loop and do some writing down.
PS. if anyone can help me identify some of the smd parts i would appriciate it. Particulary what I assume are Transistor (the all black ones). Or Just where I should propably start when trying out transistors. I am not that well versed in alot of the pedal building still.
And ofcourse if you do end up tracing it before me - do tell, lol.
Cheers
Lars
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