Shika Fuzz build on the Muffin Fuzz Board
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Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
So that's how EQD gets such a bitchen tone! I'm reversing all of my tone pots.
benny_profane
Well-known member
Hey, people seem to like the tonebenders.
Robert
Reverse Engineer
Haha, that's how the Elk Sustainar that it's based on was wired as well. This is meant to be a sonic clone of that, not really an entirely new design.
A friend of mine who has or has had damn near every variant of Muff you can imagine (original EHX and boutique) does really seem to like this one... enough so that he bought two of them.
Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
The only thing I see that's a little different in this one is the Tone network tuning. I thought maybe the final stage would saturate with the higher gain, but simulation says it doesn't.
Robert
Reverse Engineer
Probably all it is really... or maybe he just likes the purple artwork. My buddy is a pedal user, not builder. He doesn't know (or care) what makes things sound different.
I didn't A/B it against anything, but it did seem a lot less harsh than a typical Muff into my Princeton.
Barry
Well-known member
I got a buddy who swears his Jan Ray is not a Timmy! Adamantly!!
Robert
Reverse Engineer
Oh yeah, I know one of those guys too... always spouts forum knowledge/hype about various boutique pedals and why this one is so much better than that one.
I've purchased and traced several pedals just to prove a point...
I show him schematics but his response is almost always the same... "Well, I can't read schematics but I know what my ears tell me."
Yeah? Well, tell your ears they need to stay off of gear forums.
I've purchased and traced several pedals just to prove a point...
I show him schematics but his response is almost always the same... "Well, I can't read schematics but I know what my ears tell me."
Yeah? Well, tell your ears they need to stay off of gear forums.
benny_profane
Well-known member
I think you’ve got that backward. Gear forums aren’t about that math and science nonsense. It’s about feel, man.
jeffwhitfield
Well-known member
So...what exactly does the reversed tone pot do to the circuit?
Bricksnbeatles
Member known well
Since it’s a linear sweep between a simple high pass and low pass filter, couldn’t you build it with the correct tone sweep by simply putting the HP capacitor where the LP resistor goes, the HP resistor where there LP capacitor goes, and vice versa?
Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
Robert
Reverse Engineer
Absolutely.
Harry Klippton
Well-known member
jeffwhitfield
Well-known member
Ah, so no difference in tone other than the control gets reversed. Got it.
gila_crisis
Member
I've ordered the Shika pcb today, and looking forward to assemble this one!
I decided I'll do a twist to the circuits and swap R19 with a 50k pot in series with a 10k reistor to have an additional mid knob.
I'll report about the final results.
I also have an Earthbound Audio Supercollider, which is also an amazing take on the BMP, so looking forward to compare these 2.
I decided I'll do a twist to the circuits and swap R19 with a 50k pot in series with a 10k reistor to have an additional mid knob.
I'll report about the final results.
I also have an Earthbound Audio Supercollider, which is also an amazing take on the BMP, so looking forward to compare these 2.
Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
You might bump C11 up to 6.8nF while you're at it because you'll get a deep mid scoop with R19 = 10K. Check out TSC and you'll see what I mean.
gila_crisis
Member
I already did check the TSC, I know what I might encounter 
Actually if you check the Elk schem on the bigmuff page, that 330pF cap in the tone gives an even more dramatic mid scoop than what I'll get with my mod!
Actually if you check the Elk schem on the bigmuff page, that 330pF cap in the tone gives an even more dramatic mid scoop than what I'll get with my mod!
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