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I think the two mods I added are substantial enough to justify a run of my PCB. also, his pcb is for board mounted pots and mine is for off-board pots. I don't think they compete for sales directly. I have a serious aversion to running pads down both sides of the pcb like he does it. I can not remember a single build where someone has stuffed the battery up by the pots and not down by the footswitch. it defies logic and makes it difficult to access the pcb after everything is put together with short wires zip ties etc.. can someone tell me if there is a good reason for this or is it just lazy design?
you can skip the tone bypass switch and use a two knob big muff tone stack if you like. hacking the PCB is really easy as luck would have it. 4 knob ibanez standard fuzz? has this been done before? I don't think you need a switch if you can dial in flat mids on the knobs. the red line is flat mids.
Are you sure you wouldn't do a run of those Superfuzz boards? I've been wanting to do a modded Superfuzz kind of thing. FM2 would be cool also. Looks like Tagboard finally did a vero for that one, too.
I did build the JMK Standard Fuzz and it's cool. I think his design style is more aesthetic--he puts out a lot of PCBs so he lays his boards out where builders can use pretty standard drill templates, etc. In general I have pretty mixed feelings on board mounted pots. They look clean in the box but for me anyway they make debugging and boxing a real pain in the ass sometimes.
Not to derail the thread, but curious what you think about this:
Sorry to lay down more tracks for this runaway thread train but I own an original Kay Fuzztone and it's a mad fuzz - really harsh with lots of octave, something like the deformed child of an FY2 and an FY6, but it's the tone treadle that makes it for me. It lets you filter and home in on the blooming harmonics and can be really expressive with a little practice, in a way that's quite different to any conventional wah I've used.
Ben79 wrote:Sorry to lay down more tracks for this runaway thread train but I own an original Kay Fuzztone and it's a mad fuzz - really harsh with lots of octave, something like the deformed child of an FY2 and an FY6, but it's the tone treadle that makes it for me. It lets you filter and home in on the blooming harmonics and can be really expressive with a little practice, in a way that's quite different to any conventional wah I've used.
