Top Gear - Fuzz Sustain - 3 knob [schematic]
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Professor SourTone
- Solder Soldier
This just in. The housing appears to be resin. The two knob version also appears as the Guild Grizzly Fuzz, but with plain metal casing.
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tube-exorcist
- Resistor Ronker
Thanks for the nice pictures. The only still unanswered question is: what is written on that brown ceramic capacitor beside the two diodes ?
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nightraven
- Breadboard Brother
You're not the first person to ask that question. Here's a photo from my Fuzz Sustain (before I sold it - dreadful pedal). You wanted to know what was written, but somehow I don't think this answers the fundamental questiontube-exorcist wrote:Thanks for the nice pictures. The only still unanswered question is: what is written on that brown ceramic capacitor beside the two diodes ?
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tube-exorcist
- Resistor Ronker
Only this is written on it or a secret on the other side?
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nightraven
- Breadboard Brother
I guess it's either the same on the other side, or nothing at all. Otherwise I'd have taken a picture of that as well. I seem to remember some confusion about this capacitor a while ago.tube-exorcist wrote:Only this is written on it or a secret on the other side?
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Nocentelli
- Tube Twister
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Just came across a schematic for this traced from photos by ciaran haslett over at tagboardfx about five years ago....
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modman wrote: ↑ Let's hope it's not a hit, because soldering up the same pedal everyday, is a sad life. It's that same ole devilish double bind again...
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Manfred
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i made a PCB clone for it, only the traces running under the Tone potentiometer are not visible.
I assumed that there is a trace ring around the potentiometer hole that connects the case to the PCB ground.
The part names are in accordance with the schematic above.
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Sprint Layout6.0 file:
I assumed that there is a trace ring around the potentiometer hole that connects the case to the PCB ground.
The part names are in accordance with the schematic above.
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Thank you for this schematic. I'm getting used to this site, and will definitely show thanks by posting some of my modded schematics, and Kicad files in the future for everyone to use,,,when I figure it all out
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snk
- Resistor Ronker
Thank you Manfred,
I built it the other month using a veroboard layout.
It's a quite odd pedal, but i like it
It's not a fuzz (more an overdrive), and I like the way the gain affects tone (bit like a MXR Dist+).
I'd be curious to try the other pedals from that Top Gear line (the phasers, the rotator...)
I built it the other month using a veroboard layout.
It's a quite odd pedal, but i like it
It's not a fuzz (more an overdrive), and I like the way the gain affects tone (bit like a MXR Dist+).
I'd be curious to try the other pedals from that Top Gear line (the phasers, the rotator...)