Dewtron - Fuzzorama

Post by **modman** » 04 Nov 2021, 11:51

In the 70's, everybody and their mother seemed to be selling fuzz kits... especially if you you had surplus components lying around. So this unit was a kit, even though the packaging seems commercial.

: Dewton - Fuzzorama kit; dewton fuzzorama.jpeg (81.79 KiB) Viewed 719 times

: Dewtron ad from Practical Wireless, June 1973

This company was mainly building synth modules, but also sold some effect kits, among which this Fuzzorama.

Dewtron was the the trademark of the company run solely by Brian Bailey: Design Engineering Wokingham. Brian moved to Ferndown, Dorset, where he started to get messages from aliens which he was very mystified by.
The modules were awful, potted in resin so you could not repair them. The 'Modumatrix' switches were a great idea, but cheaply made. If you got a badly contacting switch in the middle of an assembly, you had to take them all apart to get at the one that was bad.
I think many people bought the modules and like me was disappointed. He claimed to have built a system for Led Zeppelin.

http://elgauchoandres.blogspot.com/2010 ... ic-if.html

In 2015 he seemed to have suffered a stroke but was saved...

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/announcements/deaths/deaths/17414635.BRIAN_BAILEY/ wrote:BAILEY Brian Albert William 17/10/1942 - 24/1/2019 His family sadly announce that Brian died peacefully at the Joseph Weld Hospice. Loving husband of Sue for nearly 50 years, great Dad to Ian, affectionate Dad-in-law to Laura and kind, humorous friend to many. His funeral will take place at Weymouth Crematorium on Friday 15th February at 2.30pm.

toneman · Post by **toneman** » 04 Nov 2021, 15:14

so, did u get a schematic from this?? Is it germanium??

google found this:
http://elgauchoandres.blogspot.com/2010/

(same link as above)

TWSpedals · Post by **TWSpedals** » 06 Nov 2021, 09:22

Looks like a fuzzface clone by the transistor count and resistor values going off that single photo

Post by **modman** » 06 Nov 2021, 11:31

TWSpedals wrote: ↑06 Nov 2021, 09:22 Looks like a fuzzface clone by the transistor count and resistor values going off that single photo

Exactly -- here are the values visible from that one picture...

http://www.geofex.com/article_folders/f ... ftech1.gif
(hotlinking images from a http site on https site does not work, sorry)