Philly Fuzz Heretic

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Jaysneezy
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Post by Jaysneezy »

Anyone know anything about this one? I’d love to know what it is. I’ve wanted one of these for a while and I can’t figure out what it is. I’ve tried contacting the company but no word back. I’ve heard it’s a mkiii tone bender but I don’t know anything about benders to be sure. Thoughts?



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Post by dv8r601 »

Looks like a hastily put together mkiii to my eyes. The real heresy is the resistors all crooked and the electrolytic caps all bent and smashed in there. If you wanna start go to the oshpark shared section and search fuzz because I believe I have seen that board before somewhere

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Post by Belanger88 »

That’s so poorly built you’d be far better off building your own for sure, clearly who ever owns this company doesn’t know wtf there doing or they’ve hired the kindergarten glass down the street to help when they get busy. How you can seriously charge someone money for such a poorly built pedal is beyond me, I couldn’t imagine selling my worst enemy that pedal.
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Absolute mess inside. Why put a simple circuit in such a big enclosure. Looks like an OSH park fabbed board.

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