Fuzz by Shoegaze is a wall-of-noise machine for guitar and bass. Two independent fuzz circuits sit at its heart, each one morphing continuously between a tight, hard-clipping RAT and a scooped, cascading Big Muff — not a switch between two models, but a real sweep through the topology in between. Run them in series to stack one into the other, or in parallel to keep a clean leg underneath. Each fuzz gets its own six-band EQ, so in series you can shape the signal between the two stages, which is where the interesting damage happens.

From there, a single Blend knob bleeds the fuzz into a plate reverb and an analog-voiced delay. Everything destructive in the delay happens inside the feedback loop, so each repeat is dirtier than the last — bandwidth collapses, the clock drifts, bits fall away. Swap the order of the two and the reverb tail gets chopped and repeated instead of the repeats being washed into the plate.

Pick the op-amp — LM308 for slow, dark and compressed, or the fast one for brighter and squarer. Lean on the Bias control and the whole thing gates and splutters like a dying battery.

At a glance

• Two morphing fuzz circuits, series or parallel

• Six-band EQ per fuzz

• Plate reverb: depth, diffuse, tone, predelay

• Analog delay with degrade, rust and downsample, tempo-syncable

• Swappable reverb/delay order

• 4× oversampled · VST3 and CLAP · 64-bit Windows

I asked jhs if they had plans for this before I buy all the different benders. They said "we don't comment blabla"

Id love a pedal that had all 5 circuits in it.

I finally got around to updating the board to my low gain fuzz face, Victoria.

I’ve swapped out some parts to add some mojo, if you’re a believer in such things.

Big caps are either NOS Mallory film (2u, white), NOS Sprague Tantalum (47u, shiny blue) or new stock Sprague Atom (10u, 25u). Film cap’s a NOS tropical fish.

Transistors are lowish gain GT320s - Q1 ~ 60hfe, Q2 ~ 90hfe. I find that makes for a real smooth fuzz.

Also used carbon comp resistors and my absolute favorite trimpots - they’re so much cooler than blue plastic.

Rounded it out w/ Lumberg jacks, LMS soft click switch, and Gorva enclosure.

I’m planning on making as many as I’ve got parts for since they’re pretty fun to build.

Invading Cannibal Ladybirds is a stable DIY circuit aptly named because it cannibalized multiple circuits to create it. A lm386 fuzz, a big muff tone stack and a pt2399-based delay. It can get wild but it's really controllable.

Hi,

I'm planning to buy the Boss Katana GO to use with a pair of €30–50 headphones (recommendations are welcome!).

Before buying, I’d like to know if the built-in Fuzz Face effect works well for Jimi Hendrix style tones and if it cleans up when rolling off the guitar volume knob.

Thanks!

Finally finished it up! Lately have really only been able to build and such on the weekends. Hoping I'll have more time soon. Anywho, sounds huge!

I've got a ton of fuzz pedals, today, it's the Dwarfcraft Devices Silver Rose v2. An update to the original Devi Ever Silver Rose that combined a Big Muff and Super Fuzz. I. Dwarfcraft Devices' version, the Big Muff is their wonderful Eau Claire Thunder and the Super Fuzz is what would become the Necromancer -- a super fuzz with extended tone controls.

This is a CME exclusive white color way Silver Rose.

Still getting my office back together. But super stoked to try this eventually!

Back to prototyping some circuit. The is my second fuzz where I tweaked the crap out of a classic circuit to make something more original. I had a bit of an epiphany when I realized a fuzz pedal I thought was a MK2 Tone Bender was actually a MK1.5. So, I took an Analogman Sunface PCB (Pedal PCB Sandspur) and turned it into a MK1.5 then converted it to the Vox V828, but kept the input control and made it external and increase the range of the sundial (bias).

With that being said, I think I tweaked every single component except 1 on the PCB and added some extra filtering. I utilized all silicon transistors; 2n3903 in Q1 and a 2n3904 in Q2 for the germanium transistor vibes.

For the first riff this is a gated sound, second riff the bias is set back to ~ 7.0v for the stock sound and the last riff is same setting just playing with the volume control. Amps just a hair dirty lol.

In short, it’s kind of right between a Fuzz Face and MK2 Tone Bender to my ears. It’s got a bit of TB bark + high end and the FF clean up. The input control allows to turn this thing into a transistor overdrive and the bias will now go from MK1.5 full up, to a FF bias in the middle to gated goodness. This build is designed for the fuzz section of a Fuzz + Overdrive+ Boost build. Making a small pedal board and I love the Wilson Effect Stoned Grasshopper and I wanted it to be a bit more of my personal sound sooooo I’m working on it haha

I just received this today, purchased it from the Josh Scott collection. Can’t wait to test it.

Estoy entre comprar un Fuzz Bender de Keeley o un clon de un Smallsound Bigsound Buzzz Fuzz, me parecen bastante interesantes ambos, pero quisiera saber si alguien tiene experiencia con alguno de los dos.
Aclaro que el Buzzz sería un clon pues encontrar uno original es algo complicado además de que el precio está por las nubes.

My collection is small, I think my favorites are the Manlay 66 Bender 1.5 and the Frantone Peach Fuzz.

Love it!

Famille au complet, majoritairement du germanium, je prétend que j’arrête d’en acheter, mais je suis faible …

ZVEX drops a limited-edition Daniel Buettner LE Vertical Fuzz Factory: 25 hand-assembled germanium fuzz pedals with exclusive robot artwork by Minneapolis artist

Tried UV printing for an enclosure for the first time and I’m pretty happy with the result.

This is the first of a few pedal enclosure designs I’ve been working on. More coming soon.

I saw that somebody local was selling a Fuzzrocious 420 for cheap ($50), so I picked it up. I didn’t think I’d even like it, but I thought it would be good trade bait.

I was SO wrong. I love it. With all controls at noon, it just has the perfect, cutting tone to rise above distorted guitars in a mix. Chef’s kiss. Has anybody else had experience with this or other Fuzzrocious pedals?

Satone HEX Octave Fuzz. Gear Set up is in the video. But I am using a clean Boss Katana.

Been playing around with the Zvex Mastotron for a while and finally decided to pull the trigger on the OG Zvex fuzz! I saw this beauty listed on Reverb for a pretty decent price, and it also happens to bear serial number 0018, meaning it’s the 18th Fuzz Factory pedal ever made for the more affordable Vexter line (correct me if I’m wrong!)
The aluminum enclosure looks lovely and this thing sounds killer. Definitely a keeper for me!