My fuzz prototype is no longer a prototype

[neonblack]

There's not too much to share at this point, but Brian and I are cooking up some HEQ-goodness. It's going to be rad.

[BetterOffShred]

Can I just pay for it now?

[Dandolin]

Wait. wut?

[BetterOffShred]

Well this setting.. both stomps on, with my Ibanez 8 string with Dimarzios... roll the volume knob all the way down, neck pickup.. bring the volume up slowly .. its a picking dynamics rate controlled tremoloish.. with some weird arpegiated decay..

[Dandolin]

There's not too much to share at this point, but Brian and I are cooking up some HEQ-goodness. It's going to be rad.

Did I miss anything?

[smallsnd/bigsnd]

There's not too much to share at this point, but Brian and I are cooking up some HEQ-goodness. It's going to be rad.

Did I miss anything?

S O O N (i'm very slow)

[Dandolin]

[neonblack]

Oh damn. OH DAMN.

[BetterOffShred]

Yeah I'll take one

[cbm]

After having an HEQ1 borrowed for the last couple months, I managed to snag a used one for myself. It's a really great fuzz for people who like working with the volume control on their instrument to get a wide timbrel palette. I like just about everything about it except for how bright the damn LEDs are. I assume there are a couple current limiting resistors in there that I could increase to dim them a bit. I haven't popped the bottom to look for myself, but maybe someone else has done this?

[Chankgeez]

[BetterOffShred]

After having an HEQ1 borrowed for the last couple months, I managed to snag a used one for myself. It's a really great fuzz for people who like working with the volume control on their instrument to get a wide timbrel palette. I like just about everything about it except for how bright the damn LEDs are. I assume there are a couple current limiting resistors in there that I could increase to dim them a bit. I haven't popped the bottom to look for myself, but maybe someone else has done this?

As seen reflected in my settings pic from above, those aren't just LED status indicators, they are actually miniature gateways to hell.. retinas be damned

[cbm]

I assume there are a couple current limiting resistors in there that I could increase to dim them a bit. I haven't popped the bottom to look for myself, but maybe someone else has done this?

They are R20 & R21, if anyone else wants to do this. I went up to a 6.65KΩ from the stock 357Ω, and it still seems plenty bright. These are really efficient LEDs.

[cbm]

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The resistors in question:

[BetterOffShred]

Remote mounted? Shit just add a 5.6k in series boom done