Aria - RE-203 Super Fuzz Sustainer

jrod · Post by **jrod** » 22 Mar 2010, 20:57

Found this on the web: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Billl/searchdiary ... 1%A5%BA%5D (About half down the page)

Anyone know anything about the Aria Super Fuzz Sustainer RE-203?

mictester · Post by **mictester** » 22 Mar 2010, 21:02

jrod wrote: Anyone know anything about the Aria Super Fuzz Sustainer RE-203?

Look carefully, and you'll spot four transistors and two pairs of back-to-back diodes, three pots.... Could it be another Big Muff Pi variant?

jrod · Post by **jrod** » 22 Mar 2010, 21:56

Damn, I'll bet you are right! I only see 3 transistors, but there are two sets of clipping diodes, which I missed. Maybe more like a Colorsound Supa Tone Bender type of Big Muff variant.

DiscoFreq · Post by **DiscoFreq** » 23 Mar 2010, 07:10

I have one of these (and several other pedals from this series. I can have a look when I see it

Mich P · Post by **Mich P** » 23 Mar 2010, 23:09

Hi,
I recently got the ARIA AWF-2
that is a fuzz wha pedal.
the fuzz unit look the same you can see
on jrod pics.
It's triangle muff circuit with some modifications :
Transistors i have seen in a couple of circuit are
Tx c732 in one and CI 327 in the other. ECB type
all caps ceramic
10k ground to gain pot
6,8nF 100k filter before tone stack !
no recovery gain stage !!
all pots 100KL
Don't know for diodes look like silicon
Here the shem :
Mich P.

RnFR · Post by **RnFR** » 23 Mar 2010, 23:17

hey Mich-

thanks for the schematic, but do you think you could post a bigger version? it's a bit small.

Dan N · Post by **Dan N** » 23 Mar 2010, 23:28

RnFR wrote:...do you think you could post a bigger version? it's a bit small.

+1!

How does it sound?

Mich P · Post by **Mich P** » 23 Mar 2010, 23:29

Sure :
Mich P.
https://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww2 ... WF-2-1.jpg

: Aria - AWF2 Super Fuzz Sustainer

Mich P · Post by **Mich P** » 23 Mar 2010, 23:49

"How does it sound?"

Pretty cool it's allow a good crunch
you can't have with traditionnal muff's
a good grit there to a solid sustain to soling
at max sustain.
But it suffer of the lack of the recovery
gain stage.
You could use the original pad to add
the last stage (traces and drills are there but
has never been bredboarded ! don't know why)
Mich P.

Dan N · Post by **Dan N** » 24 Mar 2010, 02:56

Thanks, Mitch!

Hooray for people who share their stuff!

mictester · Post by **mictester** » 24 Mar 2010, 06:14

jrod wrote:Damn, I'll bet you are right! I only see 3 transistors, but there are two sets of clipping diodes, which I missed. Maybe more like a Colorsound Supa Tone Bender type of Big Muff variant.

You're probably right - there might only be three transistors - they might omit the final stage if they're using a simple tone control without too much loss.

Just seen the drawing further down the thread. Just like a Muff.

Incidentally, my old Muff board layout went 'round the outside of a square PCB just like this one! It kept the input well away from the output, which was good for stability.

jrod · Post by **jrod** » 24 Mar 2010, 14:13

Hey Mitch P! Thanks for the schematic.

And thanks for the additional info!

Somewhere on the site at the top of the thread is a video where he compares the Aria to a Triangle Muff. They sound similar, but the Aria sounds more "gritty" to me. Could be how the tone knob is set though. I can't tell.

There are also a lot more gut shots on that site.

Edit: Video -

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 19 Mar 2012, 19:44

I came up with little layout for this
Thanks Mich P for schemo

Mich P · Post by **Mich P** » 19 Mar 2012, 23:11

Hi Sinner well done just notice all pots are linear in the original.
Mich P.

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 19 Mar 2012, 23:13

Mich P wrote:Hi Sinner well done just notice all pots are linear in the original.
Mich P.

When you said "L" I was thinking it's log, as in most of BMP's

I'll do the correction soon

Thanks again

Post by **modman** » 08 Jan 2022, 22:22

This is from a different unit;

: 2SC732

more pictures here: https://electricpartslibrary.hatenadiar ... 1264778503

Aria - RE-203 Super Fuzz Sustainer [schematic]