This unit seems to be related to the Japanese Fuzzie - Crazy Tone , but the circuit is different.
The Crazy Face seems to be a straight up Fuzz Face clone, but in the Fuzzie - Crazy Tone, something else is going on.
Bought a broken Jordan Gig Wah off the bay in hopes of repairing it and hopefully drawing up a schematic for it. As it stands it appears to use a rather odd (and probably one of the first) opamp (an MC1709C reportedly). Will report my findings when I get it on the bench. In the meantime I found the datasheet for said opamp, quite an unusual pinout!
Hey Guys, I need help with an old (Carlsbro branded) Colorsound Wah-Fuzz I have.
The Fuzz circuit sounds really weak, harsh and thin: you have to hit the strings really hard to get it to distort....
I already checked the PCB thousand times, measured the resistors, replaced the electrolytic caps... without any result
Even replacing the transistors didn't make the fuzz sound better... :smashed:
These are the voltages I have at the transistors:
(Battery measures 9,5V)
Q1
C 3,15V
B 1,30V
E...
Figured we had talked enough about the Nu-Fuzz in the Nu-wah thread. Time for a dedicated thread about the Nu-Fuzz. So where did we leave off? Dan N had posted this schem:
We had previously discussed the odd resistor values and speculated that they could possibly be the result of in circuit resistor measurement? Ron Neely you had mentioned that you had talked to the man responsible for busting open his Rosac wafer and making those measurements...
I'd say its safe to say the capacitor...
I've got one of these, would anyone like some photos of the board?
A schematic can be found here (not by me):
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Background:
Several years ago I was given a tangle of wires, pots, PCB etc. by a band mate which produced a slightly muffled overdrive sound that I wasn't too impressed with. I built a makeshift enclosure for it and tucked it away in my loft where I completely forgot about it. A few years later I found it and swapped it with a bass playing friend for something...
i purchased a vintage MXR Distortion+, which sounds as it should, but it has a constant noise that is similar to that of a scratchy pot noise, but lower in frequency. It is quite loud and it renders the pedal unusable. Here is a clip of that (sorry for the large file - this is how my camera spits them out)
No matter how the pots are set, i always get this noise. Also turning down guitar volume does not make it go away. There are no electrolytics in the circuit and i do not see...
Decided it would be best to start a new thread for this one, so as not to clutter up the thread for the earlier version of this preamp.
There is an unverified schematic of this already floating around the web. There are several differences from my trace, as well as missing values; let's assume that other one is wrong! :lol:
First, the schematic:
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I've been building the Maestro FSH project from tonepad during the last couple of days, and i thought i'd share my findings so far:
First off, there's a lot of people rambling on about the circuit being prone to ticking noise from the LFO bleeding through to the audio path, and some even blame it on the layout from tonepad.
I built mine from the latest document version available from tonepad ( Rev.2, 2008: ), and it's noisefree. If the 10K trimmer is not adjusted properly, there's ticking...
Hi, that’s my first tonebender build and I’m think I’ll ask for help.
Actually it’s working good but I’m not sure how long this effect should sustain.
Below test with humbuckers. Is it normal for this unit? I’ve used fuzz central schematic and OC75 transistors with hfe 80-90-120 as Q1, Q2, Q3. Leckage about .23
Uzzfay's page about the Fuzz Master.
Contains gut shots, schematic and layout.
Uzzfay's Fuzz Page used to be hosted at fortunecity.com until that service died , luckily some of our members downloaded the whole website. I reposted it to a part of the fsb server.
The interesting thing is the case looks like a Maestro Fuzztone clone - inside it doesn´t match with the Sekova´s or anything else - especially because there are 2 Ge-diodes visible.
Any infos are welcome,
analogguru
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Hey all, my first post here. I'm just finishing up a univibe clone that I'm pretty chuffed about. It's the most involved build I've done yet and I was impressed it worked pretty much as soon as I fired it up. There are still some tweaks I'd like to do. The intensity and speed knobs are only really making a noticeable difference for the last third of their sweep, I'd like it to be a bit deeper, throbby-er or have more scope. But I can live with it as is. One thing do I need to sort out first...
trying to touch up my vintage pearl f-605 analog delay. ordered the original japanese 2sa495 that is in the power section...
does anybody have one, or pics of the component side ? a schem would help even more, but i know this one´s really rare.
the reason i want pics of the component side is that one of the previous owners had already messed around with it and i´m not sure if some of the things i see are supposed to be that way... :lol:
Well, The Freak lives. We'll have all the schematics, BOM's, build doc, blablabla and boards up at DEFX in a few weeks. We had some minor fuck ups to fix on the initial run of boards. Otherwise, works as it should.
Of course, the customary proof of life video (the Hi Fli... but I'm in there too :mrgreen: )
If you decide to build it, be prepared to perhaps find your picture on milk cartons at some point.
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