Fender Blender and Ampeg Scrambler clones

[alalalkasar]

I've got one of the fender reissue blenders modded for no volume drop.
It's one of my top all-time no1 evil bass fuzz machines ever. Surprisingly musical and can get all modern and evil and also old school and evil.

[Cobrah]

I think a scrambler clone is one of my next projects. just picked up a bass vi and its making me want to build more bass heavy stuff. that and i got a mantic density hulk on the way.

[JonnyAngle]

My go to scrambler is the creepy fingers pink elephant. It works awesome on bass and bass vi. Not much of a guitar guy, but I'm sure it's fine on guitar

[Chaosmic]

http://metalstringsound.com/collections ... osmic-fuzz

I've been working on the Rabbit Hole FX Chaosmic Fuzz since October and it's officially in production now. It's a beautiful and vicious realization of a full featured Scrambler that I've had in mind for some years now. Absolutely smokes on bass or guitar. I'll have proper clips and such in the near future. Should be available in September.

[Abanoise]

Ronsound had a Fender Blender clone tht fixed the massive volume drop and added led indicators and put the jacks the right way and basically made it how it shouldve been when they reissued it.

Yes, it's one of the best Blender I've ever tried. Immedialty sold my original '69 one when I received it.

[potatofarmer]

I built a scrambler a couple years back using the Tonepad layout. Works great for either guitar or bass; really like having the clean blend knob.

[D.o.S.]

http://metalstringsound.com/collections/pedals/products/rabbit-hole-chaosmic-fuzz

I've been working on the Rabbit Hole FX Chaosmic Fuzz since October and it's officially in production now. It's a beautiful and vicious realization of a full featured Scrambler that I've had in mind for some years now. Absolutely smokes on bass or guitar. I'll have proper clips and such in the near future. Should be available in September.

So It's a blender-y circuit?

[Chaosmic]

http://metalstringsound.com/collections/pedals/products/rabbit-hole-chaosmic-fuzz

I've been working on the Rabbit Hole FX Chaosmic Fuzz since October and it's officially in production now. It's a beautiful and vicious realization of a full featured Scrambler that I've had in mind for some years now. Absolutely smokes on bass or guitar. I'll have proper clips and such in the near future. Should be available in September.

So It's a blender-y circuit?

I've never owned a Blender before so I can't really say. I've heard that the Blender and Scrambler are similar though. The Chaosmic Fuzz is heavily inspired by the Scrambler and this unusual circuit is the heart of the pedal. I've added a Gain control, independent Fuzz and Clean volumes and a 2-band active EQ. The original Texture control from the Scrambler has been tweaked and renamed the Chaos control. These 6 controls allow you to drastically shape the tone and response and really dial in the sound to gel with your rig.

[Chankgeez]

Sounds promising.

[rfurtkamp]

I've had little issue with volume drop on my RI Blender, but I'm hitting it with a very hot signal to begin with. I'd just buy one of those, as I'm a sucker for the old units.

Scrambler I have a faithfulish early homebrew clone that made me sell my vintage and RI ones (sadly, before the prices went to obscenity).

I love the Scrambler, it's my alltime favorite traditional fuzz.

For bass, it wins because of the blend knob.

Blender sounds massive by comparison but I think it's supposed to.

Scrambler is just a crazy crack machine.

Most of the Scrambler clones I've heard are pretty close, if I got another I'd probably go with a Basic Audio one as I talked to John about it a couple years back and hoped he'd do one.

One final note: BEWARE of the new "Scrambler DI" thing Ampeg is shilling.

It is NOT a Scrambler. It's a boring bass overdrive and preamp, they just took the damn name.

It's like putting a badge on a Yugo saying it's a Porsche.

[StopReferencing]

This thread is relevant to my interests.

I had: Fender Blender RI, Fender Blender original, Ronsound Flender, Creepy Fingers Pink Elephant.

Fender Blender RI sounded kind of cool, had nasty volume drop. Fender Blender original was massive, insane, outrageous. Ronsound Flender was...fine? Didn't sound like a Fender Blender to me (either the RI or the original), which I found...you know, rather puzzling. Ron the man is terrific, and he made me some excellent muffs -- I just didn't get his take on the FB, I guess.

Creepy Fingers Pink Elephant did not sound anything like a Fender Blender. It sounded cool, though. Kind of...superfuzz-like? Sacrilege to say that probably, sorry.

[Chankgeez]

Creepy Fingers Pink Elephant did not sound anything like a Fender Blender. It sounded cool, though. Kind of...superfuzz-like? Sacrilege to say that probably, sorry.

I think that's probably because the Pink Elephant is based on the Scrambler.

[BLOOD EAGLE]

Creepy Fingers Pink Elephant did not sound anything like a Fender Blender. It sounded cool, though. Kind of...superfuzz-like? Sacrilege to say that probably, sorry.

the pink elephant is a scrambler clone, and while i *think* they cover the same rough territory the blender and the scrambler ARE different sounds.
a few months ago i was really gassing for a scrambler clone. i contacted Creepy Fingers and got put on a wait list. still waiting (patiently).

EDIT *what Chankgeez said*

[D.o.S.]

[Chaosmic]

I'm stoked to see people talking about the Scrambler. It's definitely one of my favorite fuzz circuits ever. Here's a quick improv iPhone clip I recorded of the Chaosmic Fuzz:


I mostly adjusted the Gain and Chaos controls slightly throughout the clip. I think I've got a couple of guitar clips as well. I'm excited to release these into the wild soon!