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Another dual fuzz destroyer - A Tone Machine and a Rosac Nu Fuzz. The Nu Fuzz is KILLER!

LaoWiz wrote:Another dual fuzz destroyer - A Tone Machine and a Rosac Nu Fuzz. The Nu Fuzz is KILLER!

Oh sweet mother of mercy, hold me. I think I've fallen in LOVE!

LaoWiz wrote:Another dual fuzz destroyer - A Tone Machine and a Rosac Nu Fuzz. The Nu Fuzz is KILLER!

Oh, what the fuck, c'mon. Goddamn it. That's just amazing.

That is just nuts Laowiz...I think RaulDuke at Madbean might be doing a run of NuFuzz PCBs. Might have to look into that! I love my Tone Machine as it is.

Is that a pink LED by the way? If so, where did you grab it and what CLR value did you use? I want to use one on my Standard Fuzz, which will be black hammertone with gray synth pointer #3s (because that's the color scheme my daughter has requested!).

Bret608 wrote:That is just nuts Laowiz...I think RaulDuke at Madbean might be doing a run of NuFuzz PCBs. Might have to look into that! I love my Tone Machine as it is.

Is that a pink LED by the way? If so, where did you grab it and what CLR value did you use? I want to use one on my Standard Fuzz, which will be black hammertone with gray synth pointer #3s (because that's the color scheme my daughter has requested!).

Grab a nu fuzz PCB. I did a layout real quick on graph paper and etched mine. Dead simple circuit, easy to perf. Mine needs a little more volume, though.

Red led in a blue lense. It does look pink. I almost bought some pink LEDs from radio shack a couple of days ago. Loses some volume when you go to the thinner nastier tones with the tone control. I'll probably just add a LPB.

The NuFuzz is pretty much a Fuzzrite, rite?

Ben79 wrote:The NuFuzz is pretty much a Fuzzrite, rite?

Really similar but the fuzz control is totally different as its more of a tone control and it's not wired liked the fuzz control on the fuzzrite.

Did you use the Nu Fuzz schematic with all the weird resistor values or is there a different schematic around now?

Seems like an interesting circuit. I'd like to give it a try

Officer Bukowski wrote:Did you use the Nu Fuzz schematic with all the weird resistor values or is there a different schematic around now?

Seems like an interesting circuit. I'd like to give it a try

Yeah, I used that hand drawn schematic that you've probably seen. For the weird resistor values I just seriesed ones I had to get close as possible. I didn't breadboard it because I was fiending for a Fuzzrite sound so I made a quick layout and it's great. I bet if you bread boarded it you could make it better. I never could get a decent Fuzzrite going mainly because of the fuzz control that panned between the two transistors as there was always dead spots in the rotation. Nu fuzz doesn't do that pan and instead has a tone control off of the second transistor. Could be interesting to do the Fuzzrite fuzz control in addition to the nu fuzz's tone control. Nu fuzz is great, chords are pure rockin and low single notes are that imploding 60's sound. Just sounds fucking raw. Do it!!!

I read that the values for the resistors in that schematic were gotten from measuring the resistance while the resistors were soldered into the circuit. I wonder if doing that with this circuit would skew the results.

Do you think you could measure the resistors in your circuit to see if the reading is equal to what you know the values to be? I feel like that would kindof confirm or disprove that schematic in a way

Anyways if your build sounds great that's pretty promising! What transistors did you use in it?

LaoWiz wrote:Another dual fuzz destroyer - A Tone Machine and a Rosac Nu Fuzz. The Nu Fuzz is KILLER!

So sick man! I still don't have my Doomsdayer done...

So I just got all the stuff I need to build a rub a dub reverb and when checking if everything was is the box I noticed one of the pins was broken off the brick. Could I just carefully solder a salvaged bit of lead to it? Or would I risk damaging it since I assume it's a giant ic?

karmablock wrote:So I just got all the stuff I need to build a rub a dub reverb and when checking if everything was is the box I noticed one of the pins was broken off the brick. Could I just carefully solder a salvaged bit of lead to it? Or would I risk damaging it since I assume it's a giant ic?
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You're fine to solder a lead on, I had to do it once. Be super careful though- more than a couple of seconds of heat will kill it

Here's my first:
Meathead with dark switch, bc108, bc109, the biggest 470n cap ever (orange drop), totally messy guts but it is the meanest loudest fuzz....just nasty goodness....

Congratulations! Looks like a great first build!