The ADD FUZZ: I might have forgotten something in there.

[Stickman393]

Just built a Boss Hyper Fuzz clone, using Aion's excellent Hypercube fuzz stacked PCB.

I'm also using PedalPCB's in/out/power board...although with a little twist. Im not crazy about board-mounted DC jacks most of the time...three solder joints and a typically flimsy connector...no anchor point to the chassis...

BUT...these little things have PLENTY of room on board for two JST connectors: a 4 position for in/out/pos/gnd, and a 2 position for pos/gnd. So I put a mini lumberg in there, soldered on a pre-fabbed 2 conductor JST whip, and snapped the connection onto the board.

Came out pretty well...I do appreciate the built-in strain relief on the aion boards.

So...behold, the ADD FUZZ. Cause you add fuzz when you stomp on it.

 

[fig]

Very cool, yet there are two sides to every pedal. May we see the other?

Patience fig, patience.

Chasing butterflies, awesome!

 

[Stickman393]

Yeah...kinda pre emptively posted and uploaded it sideways the first time. I got big ol fat thumbs.

The CNC Work is getting better...this one finally got me to take the leap to grabbing a sacrificial board that I can use the CNC to self-level.

This one I had to finish with a scribe...it worked out well enough.

As for the pedal itself: LOVE mode 1, crunchy goodness. Mode 2, super cool...like modern high gain distortion meets fuzz. Mode 3 meh. What happened to my mids? Yeesh. No thanks.

 

[carlinb17]

I’m waiting on the correct on on on switch, the ones on tayda said they were type 2 but alas they were not… it was fun to build the sandwich with the headers as well. Did use you smd or thru hole for the j201s

 

[Stickman393]

Through hole, I bought up a batch of 50 from guitar PCB a while back...mostly because I was building a calamity fuzz at the time and didn't want to solder up a million adapter boards to test....

Which...probably for the best. Cause only two of the 50 worked in the calamity. Woof.

I got my type 2 from LMS...they only had the super long lead PCB mount variant in stock, so I just got those and cut off the excess

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

Through hole, I bought up a batch of 50 from guitar PCB a while back...mostly because I was building a calamity fuzz at the time and didn't want to solder up a million adapter boards to test....

Which...probably for the best. Cause only two of the 50 worked in the calamity. Woof.

I got my type 2 from LMS...they only had the super long lead PCB mount variant in stock, so I just got those and cut off the excess

Man, I keep hearing this and I feel like I won some kind of lottery because I bought like 3 random through hole j201, I think mouser... and my calamity worked first try and I knew not what I was doing. I was so happy with it, I told a buddy he should try and it was a giant headache for him. He got it there eventually but not without some frustration, some learning, and those little smd boards.

Anyway, as a late 80s Ritalin kid (turns out it doesn't treat apathy) I enjoy/relate to this aesthetic. Nice work.

 

[Stickman393]

Man, I keep hearing this and I feel like I won some kind of lottery because I bought like 3 random through hole j201, I think mouser... and my calamity worked first try and I knew not what I was doing. I was so happy with it, I told a buddy he should try and it was a giant headache for him. He got it there eventually but not without some frustration, some learning, and those little smd boards.

Anyway, as a late 80s Ritalin kid (turns out it doesn't treat apathy) I enjoy/relate to this aesthetic. Nice work.

Hell yeah, that's a great little bit of luck right there.

Truthfully...there are plenty of J201s out there that will allow you to pass a signal...the problem is the onset knob might only work for the top half of it's range, or only one of the gain switch positions will allow it to operate above a whisper.

Though truthfully, there's a part of me that wants to build a stripped-down version of the circuit, omitting a few switches, with a couple of J201's that wouldn't pass muster in the full pedal, because I really enjoyed some of the weird starved glitchy artifacts that it produces with sub-optimal Jfets.

And yeah...never much got on with methylphenidate. I'm a dextroamphetamine guy.