Identify this circuit?

[swelchy]

Received a pedal from a guy I built a couple pedals for online and he sent me a pedal to keep/troubleshoot that he's had for a while that's not working.. anyone know what it is?

 

[Laundryroom David]

“Attack delay” and “the gear” makes me think of a slow gear maybe? But I don’t know how much real estate it would take up on vero. Hmmmmm

 

[mdc]

There's no way that's a slow gear.

 

[swelchy]

Yeah I looked up a slow gear schematic and it looks like it has a lot of components... Appears this builder is out of Europe and his facebook reply is in Croatian

 

[manfesto]

Could easily be wrong but it looks like three transistors and no clipping diodes? So a boost or a fuzz maybe?

 

[manfesto]

What are the controls?

 

[swelchy]

 

[Barry]

How's does it sound?Reply

 

[swelchy]

I'm thinking it's some sort of fuzz.... about to hook it up to board and see if it makes any noises..... guy said it didnt work at all.. see no loose connections

 

[Barry]

What are all those pots wired to, each other?

 

[manfesto]

five knobs, so maybe a Fuzz Factory? If so, "Attack" and "Sens" are odd control choice names...

 

[Laundryroom David]

From a Reverb listing (so who knows) but …

https://reverb.com/item/21812647-ca...are&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=21812647

 

[Laundryroom David]

The mystery deepens lol

 

[kristopher]

My guess is Fuzz as well. Two Germanium transistors, and one Silicon.

 

[manfesto]

From a Reverb listing (so who knows) but …

https://reverb.com/item/21812647-ca...are&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=21812647

That gut shot is *completely* different! I'm guessing this was a rehouse then

 

[mdc]

Going to take a wild guess and say that someone re-used an enclosure that had a slow gear clone in it.

 

[Barry]

From a Reverb listing (so who knows) but …

https://reverb.com/item/21812647-ca...are&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=21812647

It's missing two knobs

 

[swelchy]

I don’t think it’s a rehouse… the wiring fits the guys style how he zip ties and stuff from his builds on Facebook page… hasn’t posted in over a year

 

[manfesto]

I don’t think it’s a rehouse… the wiring fits the guys style how he zip ties and stuff from his builds on Facebook page… hasn’t posted in over a year

Maybe it was a one-off fuzz build that he reused a spare enclosure for?

The Reverb listing has fewer knobs than the pedal you've got on hand, and it has a very different gutshot (including an LM13700, a part I'd expect to see in a dynamic effect like an attack decay)

 

[Barry]

I don’t think it’s a rehouse… the wiring fits the guys style how he zip ties and stuff from his builds on Facebook page… hasn’t posted in over a year

I can't see that being any kind of delay