Hypercube Fuzz

[Guardians of the analog]

Build Rating

5.00 star(s)

Hey kids do you like octave? How about octave fuzz? I love the superfuzz, it's a great circuit, so you already knew that boss was gonna enter the fuzz market hard in the 90s. The FZ-2 was a reimagined version of the superfuzz that became a legend thanks to electric wizard. Here is my build of this sought after now expensive box.

The fz-2 is an over engineered version of the vintage superfuzz. At it's core is the vintage circuit but instead of a simple switch or knob to go between a scooped or flat mids tone, they made three modes and gave you a high and low tone knobs for ultimate sound control. The modes are then broken into mid forward, scooped and a clean boost mode.

The Aion hypercube is a stacked board design with an on/on/on switch to allow all three modes in a 125b enclosure. The layout was simple and didn't require low profile caps. For the jfets I used smd j201 instead of the originals. All in all a straight forward build with the only specialty part being the headers and pins.

For the enclosure I went with a matte black tayda enclosure and UV print. For the hypercube I used the tesseract which came out really well. Thanks to @SYLV9ST9R for brainstorming the hypercube text at the bottom. If you want a little more of a challenge and want to get that crushing octave fuzz sound then give this one a try.

 

[Paradox916]

“Hey kids do you like octave?” Had me rolling for some reason . Tight build

 

[Betty Wont]

Awesome looking work!! I just watched that movie last night, one of my faves.

 

[SYLV9ST9R]

Glad to be of service for such a beautiful build!

 

[steviejr92]

Wow wow wow your builds are so motivating and inspirational! I love the way the cube came out the 3d effect looks incredible! Great color matching with the knobs!

 

[szukalski]

Popping fresh. Looking awesome.

Par for the course now..

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

I feel like it's a sign that it's gonna be a great day if I'm able to accurately guess what image is on the latest GOTA build.

 

[Coda]

Cute.

 

[Harry Klippton]

Something about stacked board builds

 

[peccary]

“Hey kids do you like octave?”

Wanna copy me and and roll rad shit from the 90's that Boss did?

 

[KR Sound]

Double decker. Nice.

 

[GizzWizzKing]

I have to ask... Were you even a little tempted to use a blue LED?
Just the mention of the FZ-2 makes me start humming Funeralopolis. Such a distinct sound. Inspiring. Nice work.

 

[jessenator]

I'd cross the Bifröst for that. Nicely done, sir!

 

[Guardians of the analog]

I have to ask... Were you even a little tempted to use a blue LED?
Just the mention of the FZ-2 makes me start humming Funeralopolis. Such a distinct sound. Inspiring. Nice work.

I've done different color LEDs on projects before, but this boss collection I'm working on I wanted to keep everything uniform. All boss knobs only, same bezel and placement for led, same all white wiring. I thought about deviating on a few of these but came to my senses

 

[benny_profane]

Slick build. This project retains the JFET input and boost stage, right?

Also, the Hyper Fuzz was made for the Rat.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

Slick build. This project retains the JFET input and boost stage, right?

Also, the Hyper Fuzz was made for the Rat.

Yes to both. This with a rat fucks as well. The rat is a staple on my board so yeah you are 100% correct on that.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

Awesome looking work!! I just watched that movie last night, one of my faves.

Betty liked my build, I can take a week off I guess cause that's like the highest praise in diy

 

[Route14]

I was like "yeah that enclosure looks good but man, that soldering is on point." I must be getting old.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

I was like "yeah that enclosure looks good but man, that soldering is on point." I must be getting old.

Thanks, soldering/wiring is the second best praise in my book

 

[Route14]

Thanks, soldering/wiring is the second best praise in my book

Now I have to ask... what's first?