Tequila buzz fuzz

[Big Monk]

That was literally the last word.

I know. He didn’t have me until trashy.

 

[Harry Klippton]

Thanks everybody for the kind words. I really had fun with this idea so I'm glad y'all liked it

 

[drgonzo1969]

Alright, here's uhh .... something. I learned about this board from this thread. @Betty Wont said it was a spaghetti western fuzz based on a silicon fuzzrite and my interest was piqued. @Bricksnbeatles was very kind and sent me a board for it.

On the inside, this was not my favorite project to assemble and it shows. The board is laid out for 1/8w resistors and 2.5mm caps, neither of which I keep on hand. I'm not in a willy-nilly component ordering phase of my life so I made due with what I had. It was also laid out to have the pots flipped the other way behind the board, which I didn't want to do. Again, i did what I had to do. See below to see what I mean. There was also a hi cut switch, which I didn't really like, nor could I find an elegant placement for it in the enclosure, so I jumpered one position and saved myself a toggle switch and enclosure real estate. I didn't bother to pull the extra cap out cuz it was already installed and who cares. the connection points for offboard wiring are seriously lacking, so I dredged up one of these deluxe madbead breakout boards with ALL the pads and went from there. I really put the spaghetti in spaghetti western with this one

And on to the star of the show- the outside. I had a lot of fun with this one. This design came from an alternate universe in which I had a career as a 70s country star. I looked at a lot of old 45s for layout inspo. The perennial best dude @Paradox916 graciously helped me with the raster image editing, cuz I don't do that. Imagining that this is the cover of a single, I had to come up with a song title. Thus Bright Lights to Back Roads was born. The song is about my struggles in the spotlight and my desire to return to my backwoods home away from the city and stage lights. My wife refers to my facial expression as the (surname) Smile because we all do it in photos for some unknown reason.

A couple of other goofs- I forgot to delete the footswitch washer outline from my artwork before printing my decal, so I spot-removed it after the pedal was assembled.
There's no drill template with this project, so I had to make my own as well, and that was a bit annoying but doable. Finally, I would have put the logo at the bottom in a different color but I forgot. No big deal

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That artwork layout is outstanding! I love the overall aesthetic of it. Well done sir!

 

[andare]

I feel like I'm missing a reference but nevertheless I like the artwork and I'm a sucker for a good Fuzzrite.

 

[Ginsly]

I found the schematic for this buried on my desktop, so I must have stumbled onto it here at some point!

I breadboarded it and it does sound very much like a Fuzzrite. To @Harry Klippton and anyone else who has built one - what separates this from a standard Fuzzrite? It has a third transistor, but I'm not sure how much it really changes the sound - my guess is it mostly helps to boost overall volume..? Just curious! I've yet to build a Fuzzrite and am looking for a good version- just wondering what makes this one stand out (if it does).