Maestro fz-1s

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I was shocked to find nobody does a pcb for this old crazy train of a pedal.

General guitar gadgets has a full breakdown.

Be aware that apparently the official schematic has errors.

The arcane analog attached is drawn from his own unit.

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I really liked the Carcosa and had to investigate its inspiration.
My FZ-1S build was too gated for my liking, and the volume of all the modes was very unbalanced. I wanted to mod it while keeping as much of the original character as I could and tried some suggestions I found.

Using the GGG schematic as reference, I replaced the following with trim pots for testing:

R17: fine tune the gated fuzz character to let it sustain and roar
R23: match the fuzz section's tone and tone-bypass levels (or replace with 180k)
R7 & R8: match the clean and fuzz levels
R11: raise the overall volume at the recovery stage.
 
Mir9 said:
I really liked the Carcosa and had to investigate its inspiration.
My FZ-1S build was too gated for my liking, and the volume of all the modes was very unbalanced. I wanted to mod it while keeping as much of the original character as I could and tried some suggestions I found.

Using the GGG schematic as reference, I replaced the following with trim pots for testing:

R17: fine tune the gated fuzz character to let it sustain and roar
R23: match the fuzz section's tone and tone-bypass levels (or replace with 180k)
R7 & R8: match the clean and fuzz levels
R11: raise the overall volume at the recovery stage.
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Noted - thanks, I will use the GGG as ref. As well when I get round to this.
 
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