PedalPCB Ottava Octave Fuzz/Lastgasp Octavella (can't be tamed unruly octave fuzz)

OD is Glorious

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If you want your signal fractured and untamed like a screaming banshee this is your pedal. Belching and sagging when set at normal levels. When you turn up feedback all the way it is a completely unusable shrieking. If you crank the gain all the way, again, unusable. It is not a difficult build but this is a pretty specialized noise maker that would have trouble playing nice in many pedal chains. A wild and nasty fuzz with an octave feature. Inside there are not many parts and no hard to find parts. There is one op-amp and one J201.

I used a film-free decal on this matte white powder coated enclosure. I then sprayed it with Spraymax 2k matte clear. I used an ox-blood footswitch with a 3kg click and a 5mm yellow LED inside a freznel. There are Switchcraft jacks and a PPCB top jack plate. My favorite Davies 1510 knobs are green to match the graphic.

This pedal is not something I would use, but I imagine it may find a place in someone's music.
FYI: at 2.35 × 2.35 × 0.5 in this board is very big!

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This is a wild one. Lastgap will bring the noise. I’ve had fun setting this one right at the edge of feedback and getting a squealing decay.
Makes sense. I did not research it first so after I plugged it in and raised my eyebrows in surprise, I checked user uploaded videos and yup... it is that wild.
 
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