digi2t wrote: ↑18 Jun 2023, 22:46 Haven't posted in a while, so here you go folks...

Great photos! Thanks

Here's an email i got from the original designer of the Ampeg Phazzer, Donald Tillman after posting about it on the Tone Machines blog: "This was manufactured by a company called "I W Turner", a very small music electronics company in the town I grew up in, Port Washington, New York. ...

Manfred wrote: ↑18 Aug 2022, 19:04 I understand your reasons, thank you for what you have done for us so far.

It's all good. Thanks for understanding.
And just a heads up, the transistor type is in the text of the first post.

Thanks for all! Can you paste the wire colors of the incoming wires at the solder points in the yellow highlighted area? Could you measure the potentiometer values? The main board dimension of 3 "x 3" is an estimate of mine, are these dimensions correct, what are the dimensions of the pot...

Here are a couple of gutshots of another black Fuzz Up like Ed's. I hope the owner of this pedal won't mind me sharing the pics! https://i.imgur.com/0lz1GNv.jpg https://i.imgur.com/hPPCWa4.jpg Whoa! This one is black inside too! Mine was clearly the early enclosure just painted black because the in...

20220817_175558.jpg 20220817_175943.jpg 20220817_175956.jpg Sorry to leave you guys hanging! Here is the component side of the board for the pots. The video demo is of this exact unit but i can guarantee it sounds much better than that in person 😂 that was recorded in 2013 or so by the original own...

Manfred wrote: ↑14 Aug 2022, 08:29 I started this layout clone, next I will trace the circuit structure.
the dimension of the board is 3" by 3"
GM Fuzz Layout.jpg

Nice! Let me know how it sounds once you get it wired up.

Yes, this is the same exact unit that's on effects database. I accidentally typed an M instead of D.

20220717_125826.jpg 20220716_142450.jpg 20220714_184319.jpg 20220714_184340.jpg Thought you all might enjoy this one. The slightly earlier version of this pedal is essentially a 9v germanium FZ-1 with controls to boost the highs or lows. This version has three 2N 5172 transistors and works in the s...

chicago_mike wrote:YAY Green Meanies! I'm going to get one of those 400 piece kits off of eBay because I LOVE cheese!

Oh, and yeah, please post more photos!

I'll take some more photos tomorrow.
Thanks for the reply!

Wow, do you know the full name of the maker? I have an uncle in NZ with the surname Holden who made fuzz pedals for local musos in the '70s -- just wondering. wow that is pretty awesome! I wonder if it's the same? here's the story from effectsdatabase: "Ron Holden started the business in the m...

Hey guys, I just realized that I never posted this in here and wanted to know what you think about it circuit-wise? It's a Holden FuzFaze, out of New Zealand from the mid 70's (1975 I think). The fuzz part is particularly loud and brutal while the phaser part, which appears to be a Phase 90 clone, c...

I posted a little write-up of my Royal a while back on my blog: http://tonemachines.blogspot.com/2011/11/royal-fuzz-box-tf-1-rf-1-1969.html it has some good gut shots, if you need any other angles. The Royal sounds a little more raw and crazier than the Univox Super Fuzz, which I like (some people m...

I could be wrong here, but doesn't that "transistor" look like it has 6 legs?

it reminds me of those opamps in the Roland Bee Gee's:

hey, yeah that looks like the Sekova for sure! which was probably made at the Shin Ei factory in the late 60s? but I have never seen one of those before, so thanks for posting! also, in relation to Bart's post, there was an Apollo version of the Sekova wedge fuzz, so they could probably be related? ...

I would say that is a pretty accurate audio clip. not sure if it's anything you guys don't already have, but I did a blog post on a Sekova a few months back: http://tonemachines.blogspot.com/2011/12/sekova-fa-ii-fuzz-1969.html the strange thing is that is sounds extremely similar to the fuzz-side of...

greigoroth wrote:Pics of board attached for posterity. Mods can delete this if reposting pics from other forums isn't kosher.

they're my pics so it's all good.

let me know if you guys need any more.
this thing sounds insane, by the way.

oh, i meant this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Hohner ... 1067261156

I actually reminds me of the Hohner Wah.
http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/ho ... nei/wahwah

which, I am pretty sure, was an Electro Harmonix clone.

this: