Death by Audio - Fuzz War [traced]
So after actually playing one of these, I can say with 100% certainty that I can make better pedals than this.
The volume knob literally does nothing.
The tone knob works from about 7 to 8:30 and then has no discernible affect on the sound.
Cheaply made garbage that does nothing.
The volume knob literally does nothing.
The tone knob works from about 7 to 8:30 and then has no discernible affect on the sound.
Cheaply made garbage that does nothing.
- Space Jm
- Breadboard Brother
Hello xampworshipx,
Did you try the original "Fuzz war" or a clone you did on your demo board ?
Because it could be very different, not sure the schematic is 100% accurate.
Did you try the original "Fuzz war" or a clone you did on your demo board ?
Because it could be very different, not sure the schematic is 100% accurate.
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- Solder Soldier
Hmmm
The original one I had didn't work like that.
The tone control had a wide range with some
semi parametric sweep type sounds.
Big fuzz and a lot of different tones.
Not for the weak but that's implied.
The original one I had didn't work like that.
The tone control had a wide range with some
semi parametric sweep type sounds.
Big fuzz and a lot of different tones.
Not for the weak but that's implied.
i've been reading all... and it seems like everybody here has problems bulding it ... maybe the schem is the key...; i've not a single idea about tracing circuits (from the photos), eagle's neither... i cant help it. BUT, im sure i love this pedal badly; and i wanna build it...Space Jm wrote:Hello xampworshipx,
Did you try the original "Fuzz war" or a clone you did on your demo board ?
Because it could be very different, not sure the schematic is 100% accurate.
does anyone succeed whit this pedal?... new verob. or schem?... it would be great !!!
ps. (i damn myself for my poorly knowledge )
I was referring to the real one. Tried it with a jcm800 and a les paul at a guitar shop near me. Was not stoked.
- RnFR
- Old Solderhand
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good luck! i'd definitely breadboard first.
btw- i pulled my layout, as it seems that there are problems with it.
btw- i pulled my layout, as it seems that there are problems with it.
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- Brainbender
- Breadboard Brother
has anyone tried this? is it verified? I see there's lots of 430k resistors, and reading all this i see that they should be 820k?flood wrote:ok, here we go: here's the .sch and .brd files. Format is Eagle 5.0.
i'm not that good with PCB design, so please feel free to correct any mistakes in the layout (and be kind!).
don't know when i can actually get this up and running though, have moved back home recently and don't have materials or space to do this sort of thing right now.
How can I export just traces in an Eagle?
- gigelmargel
- Resistor Ronker
I've built it sometime ago, but it never worked as in the demos...too gated and too much noise...I ended trying to bias the transistors one-by-one, replacing all 100K/180K/430K resistors from the emitters/colectors with trimpots, but no luck at all.the_ungod wrote:Does anyone has a sucesfull build?
Is this schematic verified?
Thanks
I am very interrested about it, because the demos sounds very killer!
- gigelmargel
- Resistor Ronker
do you have mnore details?celadine wrote:I breadboarded it (a year ago or so) with all different transistors for kicks. Didn't excite me, it sounded like two Big Muffs 'stacked' together. Shrug. But it did work.
- gigelmargel
- Resistor Ronker
What transistors have you used and how you biased them (if you did that)...some voltages would be useful, but I think that you disassembled it.celadine wrote:What would you like to know about?
Thank you!
- celadine
- Solder Soldier
I used a bunch of different junk transistors pulled from different stuff. All reversed. I used 390k resistors instead of the weird 430K, only because of laziness. Otherwise built according to Analog Guru's schematic. It might be good to use medium gain transistors in this, instead of super high gain types, cause the ones I used were all probably 100-300 hfe. Because of the horrible, cross-your-fingers biasing of this pedal, its a miracle if any sound comes out of it. Good luck!
- gigelmargel
- Resistor Ronker
Thank you very much celadine!celadine wrote:I used a bunch of different junk transistors pulled from different stuff. All reversed. I used 390k resistors instead of the weird 430K, only because of laziness. Otherwise built according to Analog Guru's schematic. It might be good to use medium gain transistors in this, instead of super high gain types, cause the ones I used were all probably 100-300 hfe. Because of the horrible, cross-your-fingers biasing of this pedal, its a miracle if any sound comes out of it. Good luck!