Jext Telez Dizzy Tone fuzz pedals
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 9:45 am
Hello fuzz brethren. This is my first post here and I'm happy to answer any questions in regards to the Jext Telez Dizzy Tone pedals, one of which is being given away this month in the giveaways section here at ilovefuzz.com.
I am a fuzz addict. When I came across an original Elka Dizzy Tone I jumped on it and it is a mind blower. It quickly became one of the few fuzzes that I would actually keep forever-- there's only a few of those. I had been trying tons of Tonebender stuff and digging the MKIII variations but this Elka DT just dethroned all of them for me.
What happened next was I showed the Elka to Al Sutton from Acme Audio, who is just crazy enough to make gear, usually stuff that is super rare, super cool and super hard to source parts for. He had this thing taken apart before I could blink, though I was sweating hard. So recreating this beast was almost not even a choice, Sutton was off to the races so I was on board.
The hardest parts to find were the transistors. I wanted the original 50's 60's stuff and enough to do 100 pedals. That took a lot of work, digging, searching, obsessing and SPENDING.
Anyway, these Jext Telez Dizzy Tones are now a reality. We spent a good month matching our protos to sound exactly like the original and rather than just build a published schematic, we chose to make this more of a recreation of how this one original pedal sounds- a real unruly beast yet gorgeous.
I am a fuzz addict. When I came across an original Elka Dizzy Tone I jumped on it and it is a mind blower. It quickly became one of the few fuzzes that I would actually keep forever-- there's only a few of those. I had been trying tons of Tonebender stuff and digging the MKIII variations but this Elka DT just dethroned all of them for me.
What happened next was I showed the Elka to Al Sutton from Acme Audio, who is just crazy enough to make gear, usually stuff that is super rare, super cool and super hard to source parts for. He had this thing taken apart before I could blink, though I was sweating hard. So recreating this beast was almost not even a choice, Sutton was off to the races so I was on board.
The hardest parts to find were the transistors. I wanted the original 50's 60's stuff and enough to do 100 pedals. That took a lot of work, digging, searching, obsessing and SPENDING.
Anyway, these Jext Telez Dizzy Tones are now a reality. We spent a good month matching our protos to sound exactly like the original and rather than just build a published schematic, we chose to make this more of a recreation of how this one original pedal sounds- a real unruly beast yet gorgeous.
