Patrick Gentile Fuzz's?

[JerEvil]

So I had the opportunity to hop on a tour box of fuzz pedals made by Patrick Gentile. Truth be told, I had not heard of him until the turbox notification came up. He sent out 3 pedals. A Fuzz Face, Bender MkII and Muff type.

Made some vids to show them off. They were all pretty killer. Any of you all ever tried Patrick's stuff?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLJcFbf9wro[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7KZjpPqgXU[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIO5CrADeX4[/youtube]

[Antlerface]

Those all sound fucking awesome.

I filled out my modulation/pitch/time/synth/reverb sections of my board and now I am dirt collecting again.

Might need to snag one of these. Thrifty sounded least like anything I currently have.

[JerEvil]

Those all sound fucking awesome.

I filled out my modulation/pitch/time/synth/reverb sections of my board and now I am dirt collecting again.

Might need to snag one of these. Thrifty sounded least like anything I currently have.

Yeah they were a lot of fun.

Here is some info from Patrick:

The Fat China - A modified Big Muff -

Volume/Sustain: Standard configuration. Turn it to the left weak sauce, turn it to the right awesome sauce.
Gain: Switches between the standard 700mV 1N914 silicon diode and a low low VFE 350mV germanium diode. In layman terms, the lower the VFE voltage on a clipping diode the harder it clips and compresses. there is also some resistor switching going on to even out the gain disparity between the two modes. But "up" is standard silicon Big Muff diode and "down" is modified germanium diode.
Tone/Body: Based on the AMZ presence control details on that can be found hear http://www.muzique.com/lab/tone3.htm a link that I highly recommend you read. The tone knob is the standard setup but rotating the body knob will transform it from a scooped to flat response.

The Thrifty Fuzz - A Tone Bender MkII Variant -

Volume/Attack: Does the usual fuzz box stuff.

A duplication of the Tone bender MkII circuit with germanium power transistors from a very old (like 1960's old) electric organ. It's true positive ground and as such runs best off of an alkaline battery and black magic. While it doesn't behave exactly like on original Tone Bender MkII, I figure it's as close as anyone will get to PNP germanium clone for less than $500 bucks. If I had spent six or seven more months messing around with the electronics I might have gotten it to behave a little better. But after four prototypes and several yuenglings (the thinking' mans brew) I was like " Screw it. Call it the Thrifty Fuzz and sell 'em for $40."

and finally

The 3906 Fuzz - a modified Fuzz Face -

Volume/Attack: Does the usual fuzz box stuff.

The circuit that started it all. I was helping a friend build a PNP positive ground silicon Fuzz Face using the infamous 2N3906 transistor. While you can find dozens of forums and schematics online saying to " just swap the negative and positive leads on the battery" or "put the transistors in upside down" in practice this doesn't really work all that well. So I set out to find a way to make a normally positive wall-wart power supply negative. I came up with Maxim Integrated's MAX1044 Negative boost converter. A nifty little IC that takes a positive voltage and using what I am assuming it magic and makes it negative. it also has built in regulation that make the output voltage very stable. This removes any power supply sag found in a normal Fuzz Face and gives it a quasi compressed sound.

Sorry. Hope I am not coming across like a shill. I have no relationship with Gentile Pedals outside of having been on the tourbox.

[Jwar]

Wait, you're tell us about a tourbox after the sign ups??

I'm not sure I can like you sir. I'm just not sure.

[JerEvil]

Wait, you're tell us about a tourbox after the sign ups??

I'm not sure I can like you sir. I'm just not sure.

LOL! It was on TGP. I will start letting folks know when I see them pop up though. I am on one for BearFoot Effects right now.

[JerEvil]

i'm only a minute in, but it seems you had a dirty tone from the beginning.

Yeah I generally always run my dirt pedals (even FF) into a slightly crunchy amp setting. I rarely if ever use clean settings for anything. I will roll my volume off if necessary. I do lots of stuff "wrong" so my use of fuzz would be no different!