tabbycat wrote:culturejam wrote:Nocentelli wrote:I tend to stick the filter from a Rat (wired "backwards") on the end of most other bright fuzz circuits.
Yeah, this is a good one for a lot of the brighter dirt circuits.
thanks a lot for the recommendations mictester, nocentelli and culturejam. lots to work with. have never got on with the rat as a fuzz but had never considered the potential of the tonestack wired in reverse.
that's what i like about diy. it's all up for grabs. like lego with sound-manipulating potential. the permutations, adaptations and reworkings are endless. and you learn something every time you engage with it.
re the rat stack, are you refering to this one:
amazing rat page at electrosmash. works through every ciuit block section in great depth with some classy diagrams and graphs re the tone control. will definitely try it out on your recommendation.
http://www.electrosmash.com/proco-rat
I've seen that one around in some different fuzz pedals, and I bet it works great. But it seems to me like you'll probably want to also include the jfet buffer after this, before the volume pot, like the rat, or else you'll lose overall volume as you roll off the treble (tone pot and volume pot form a divider, so at max tone resistance, your max volume is half of what it is at minimum tone resistance.) The buffer keeps the tone pot from interacting with the volume pot, with its high input impedance. So instead of 100k/100k divider, you get a 100k/1M divider. Much less loss.
Maybe not a big deal, though, since I've seen this circuit without the buffer afterwards in some Screddy pedals, for example. Just something to think about.
I love those electrosmash articles, too. So great, I wish there were more.