Overloader! (6 Transistor Big Muff)

Morbidpale

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BEHOLD! The OVERLOADER!
Just a big muff that was tweaked and tweaked until it was great. Then I started experimenting with a way to blow it out more effectively than a boost in front. I put a Bass Boost in between clipping stages with a blend. Gain and Overload(Bass Blend) are very interactive with each other. This muff can sound crackly, gated, doomy, broken. It all depends in the positions of those two controls. Led clippers at Q2 are essential to getting enough signal to the overload section, Si essential at Q3 to squash it back down.

The tone stack is almost flat. The button on the side changes the Low Pass side a little and brings back some of the Muff scoop. Its subtle but it works well for me. Using the push button over a toggle seemed like a good idea to keep things looking simple but it was more trouble than it was worth.

The layout is not my favorite but I needed to fit into a 125B. Still, it looks pretty tidy.

Credit where credit is due.
The art is a beer label I peeled off.
Artist: Ibay Arifin Suradi
Brewery: There Does Not Exist
Beer: South of Nelson (Delicious)

I hope some people try it out for themselves. The pedal and the beer. Let me know.


Fronta.jpg Gutsa.jpg Sidea.jpg Labela.jpg Layouta.png Overloader-1.jpg
 
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