Making Starboard Fuzz Louder?...

[finebyfine]

If none of these mods work, I gotta throw out my go to rec for output booster, which is the recovery from the superfuzz (c14 onwards). Just a simple NPN common emitter amplifier with high enough value capacitors to barely cut frequencies. Plays really nicely with older fuzz pedals like this and is easy to build on a scrap of vero.

Swap the last resistor for a pot and play around with the values for unity gain at noon or wherever you want it. 50K usually works for me.

 

[Moltenmetalburn]

Hmm, that's how it was drawn on the schematic that was used but there seems to have been some debate about which way the pot should be connected....

It does seem more intuitive for it to behave the other way around though, so I might have to revise this one.

If that's the case and you want an updated PCB just shoot me a message.

@Robert Please tell me if this was this ever revised to reverse the pot travel? If so does the current schematic now represent that? Preparing to do this one and wondering what I'll wind up with,

 

[Robert]

@Robert Please tell me if this was this ever revised to reverse the pot travel? If so does the current schematic now represent that? Preparing to do this one and wondering what I'll wind up with,

Yep, it was updated a few years ago.

Build doc hasn't been updated to reflect that change though... I need to do that.