miss me? lol.... life's been happening..... bought a house, moved, been gigging like a madman, good things, bad things (dealt with a small tumor blocking my colon)... and here i am back at the diy thing. why?
well.. when going in for the damn colonoscopy that found the thing in me, while i was out, somewhow my right thumb got dislocated. now, i realize, some thumbs up my ass jokes have to be made, hell, i've made 'em myself, but no idea how the @#$% my right thumb could get this messed up getting a goddamn pipe stuffed up my arse.
well... anyways... between that and all the rest, i've kinda gotta take a break from performing so i started tinkering around a bit. fixing old f'ups and re-voiceing fuzzes, and fixing the stuff that BUGGED me about the crap i had left that wasn't sold or given away .... somewhere around 300 pedals have been made here, i have about 50 of 'em here still... that's a lot of sh*t STILL, but jesus...
one of the pedals i was dicking with was the third pedal i had started working up for wags, tentatively called the WWP... for Wagner Winston (my son, who was working with me on the design) and photon, of course. i had worked up the prototype and given one to wags when he visited in 2013, but frankly neither he nor i nor winston much cared for it, it needed more development. but with the move, and having my stuff in boxes, and all the other crap, it got waysided, and never got finished before dickie left us this past spring for the other side of that rainbow bridge.
well, late last nite, i took it to task... it was a pretty smelly fuzzface variant with a cheezy ass tone control for all intents and purposes. so i set out to try and maximize what i'd come up with, and ended up changing some of the things and adding some others, and using a few tricks i've learned from dickin' around with god knows how many circuits in various effects and amps.
when all was said and done, it's a three knob dirt box with one extra switch.
the first knob, "saturation" is not only a fuzz gain/contour control, but you can sweep it from octave up--CCW (WITH fundamental intact) to mild overdrive to fuzz at full CW rotation.
the baalz pot too sweeps , adds fuzz as well and acts as a master volume of sorts. i did NOT add a master volume, tho some peeps may want one. if so, standard 100k from the output should do the trick
the snarl control is a tone control, for all intents... it loses volume a little at CCW at some settings, and acts pretty much like an "attack" control on a tonebender... adds high end bite and fuzz the more ya turn it up.
the compression switch adds a diode clipper to ground from the output cap(s, i used two in parallel cuz it sounded great, no idea what the hell the capacitance would be.... 470n divided by 100n?? huh????) and makes it a little easier to get the octave thing happening.
all the controls are highly interactive, and it should let ya get well enough above unity gain to push an amp hard if necessary as a TRUE overdriver.
there are feedback loops all over the fuggin place, and things panning between different parts of the circuit. it was breadboarded up, and is physically built at this point... i dont totally understand all the things it does, but it's way different from what i've presented in the past.
this is a commercial product, for all intents, so DIY all ya want, but ZERO commercial use will be tolerated.
i'm sure i've reinvented the wheel, and someone smarter than me (easy, these days) i am sure can tell me what i've lummoxed across as a circuit, as these things NEVER end up being "original" (other than maybe some phat pink schmuck using a ge fuzz in the feedback loop of a jfet opamp as a clipper....AHEM).... so please feel free to educate my dumb ass. i'm sure Gus has already done this.
but i hope not... of course..really nice dirt box, capable of a LOT of tones. cleans up fairly well from the guitar, too. nice sustain, not a lot of background noise...
another PJP hybrid circuit, npn, so it plays nice with other pedals.... bc547 for q1, and ac176 for q2. hfe's, e/b/c voltages on the graphic.
made a cheezy pcb pattern as a schematic... still no idea how the hell to do a schem other than drawing it out by hand. i did. will scan and post that tomorrow maybe if anyone is interested or can't follow this graphic.
no vero yet... i use perf more these days... go figure...
would LOVE IT if some crazy person wanted to throw this on the breadboard and see if they get similar results...
btw... q2 can be damn near anything i think... socket and experiment. i tried several GE's in there, cuz i roll like that, but 3904's or whatever will probably work too.
enough of my yammering bullsh*t
here ya go:
schematic by Jubal81....thanks bro
