Skreddy Bloody Knuckle Fuzz
$224.25 $195.00A modified and improved version of the oldest fuzz circuit I know of The Skreddy Pedalså» Bloody Knuckle is an ALL GERMANIUM 3-transistor fuzz. The original Maestroå» Fuzz Tone was made famous with the Rolling Stones' hit "Satisfaction."...- Read More
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A modified and improved version of the oldest fuzz circuit I know of
The Skreddy Pedalså» Bloody Knuckle is an ALL GERMANIUM 3-transistor fuzz.
The original Maestroå» Fuzz Tone was made famous with the Rolling Stones' hit "Satisfaction." Then the first version of the Tone Bender was made by Gary Hurst, basically a direct copy, only using different transistors and a few different resistor values, ostensibly to give it more sustain. (also a bit less of an angry bees in a jar thing)
What I've done is...
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...Take that same old design and improve the "Attack" control such that it has a gradual sweep and is very useful all the way from top to bottom
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...Fix the bias, BUT JUST BARELY, so it has plenty of sustain and does not have a gated (on or off) effect. Instead what it does is it breathes and sags, kind of like a weak tube rectifier in an old amp. You can defeat the sag effect by simply turning down the Attack control a bit or by adding some neck pickup. It sags the most with the bridge pickup when droning some low E and playing power riffs on the A string--you can make it almost choke out using this technique. Fun stuff!
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...Use AC127 transistors, the same germanium devices used in my Screw Driver and Hybrid Fuzz Driver. This is an NPN transistor, meaning it uses a standard negative-ground power supply.
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...Improve the sound quality. The Maestro Fuzz Tone utilized a 100k resistor at the input of the effect, resulting in a weak, low-fi signal. On the other hand the Tone Bender Mk1 used a 2 megaohm resistor at its output to pad the volume down, again resulting in a low-fi signal. I am using 100 ohms in series at input (just enough to soften the attack a tiny bit and warm it up) and zero ohms in series with the output (other than the volume pot). I am instead padding the output signal with a voltage divider, the same way the Fuzz Face design does, giving a clear, well-defined sound.
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