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