kerryfine
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Excited to share: FUZZILLA VS AKHIBARA - high gain highly variable fuzz.
Concept created during my visit to Tokyo while searching Akhibara electric town and finding a killer 50 pack of NOS Toshiba 2SA478 transistors. These transistors are wild everywhere I’ve tried them! Decided to P2P wire everything on perfboard for “fun”.
Akhibara’s attack = Germanium Radiation: high gain fuzz stacked with 4.5 Toshiba 2SA478 Ge transistors (.5 because of extra one used as Ge diode). Based on modified Park Sound fuzz/TB mkIII
Fuzzilla’s attacks= Atomic Breath: analog octave up (pre-fuzz)
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Nuclear Pulse: Phase 45 w/ univibe switch (post-fuzz)
Pots: Fuzz, Tone (DBA Fuzz War style), Charge (alternative gain control going into later gain stages), Volume, Pulse (speed for phaser)
Switches: Meltdown (adds 4th Ge transistor gain stage), Isotope (switch between 5th 2SA478 used as Ge diode clipping vs CBS 1N69), Fission (tone bypass), Decay (set voltage starve to transistors), Univibe switch (for phaser)
Demos attached as well as photos from Akhibara, Tokyo. Just need to solder in the socketed transistors.
Concept created during my visit to Tokyo while searching Akhibara electric town and finding a killer 50 pack of NOS Toshiba 2SA478 transistors. These transistors are wild everywhere I’ve tried them! Decided to P2P wire everything on perfboard for “fun”.
Akhibara’s attack = Germanium Radiation: high gain fuzz stacked with 4.5 Toshiba 2SA478 Ge transistors (.5 because of extra one used as Ge diode). Based on modified Park Sound fuzz/TB mkIII
Fuzzilla’s attacks= Atomic Breath: analog octave up (pre-fuzz)
&
Nuclear Pulse: Phase 45 w/ univibe switch (post-fuzz)
Pots: Fuzz, Tone (DBA Fuzz War style), Charge (alternative gain control going into later gain stages), Volume, Pulse (speed for phaser)
Switches: Meltdown (adds 4th Ge transistor gain stage), Isotope (switch between 5th 2SA478 used as Ge diode clipping vs CBS 1N69), Fission (tone bypass), Decay (set voltage starve to transistors), Univibe switch (for phaser)
Demos attached as well as photos from Akhibara, Tokyo. Just need to solder in the socketed transistors.
