Fuzzonaut
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Here are some more Monolith ORACLE fuzzes. I recently built the full monty mojo edition and still had some fancy caps (47p, 6.8n, 56n and 1u) left, so I made two more. Both with C taper Density.
First a in a 125B, resistors are mostly carbon comp, caps are Silver Mica, Orange and tropical fish type, and transistors are Q1 OC76, Q2 Toshiba AC128.
Then in a BB as I thought "Hey, let's try SI/GE hybrid". This time all standard 1/4w resistors, still fancy caps (Silver Mica, tropical fish and those big yellow ones).
Transistors: Q1 = Mullard T1/BC539B. Q2= OC76/Tesla KF517
Both sound great.
The hybrid one didn't leave my guitarists board after he tested it. I'll probably never get it back. That's fine.
Sound wise, SI for Q1 is cool, it makes the Fuzz somehow more broken sounding. Going from GE to SI on Q2 doesn't bring a big change, SI might be a tad more agressive.
I rolled a lot of transistors through this one, especially on the SI side, some combinations almost choked the signal and were quite useless.
Once decisions were made, I soldered the transistors into the sockets.
First a in a 125B, resistors are mostly carbon comp, caps are Silver Mica, Orange and tropical fish type, and transistors are Q1 OC76, Q2 Toshiba AC128.
Then in a BB as I thought "Hey, let's try SI/GE hybrid". This time all standard 1/4w resistors, still fancy caps (Silver Mica, tropical fish and those big yellow ones).
Transistors: Q1 = Mullard T1/BC539B. Q2= OC76/Tesla KF517
Both sound great.
The hybrid one didn't leave my guitarists board after he tested it. I'll probably never get it back. That's fine.
Sound wise, SI for Q1 is cool, it makes the Fuzz somehow more broken sounding. Going from GE to SI on Q2 doesn't bring a big change, SI might be a tad more agressive.
I rolled a lot of transistors through this one, especially on the SI side, some combinations almost choked the signal and were quite useless.
Once decisions were made, I soldered the transistors into the sockets.