TOne machines!

[lapsteel]

I picked up bob the robot's dirge foxx tone machine clone from the the bst... Yay!

Please share your knowledge of this circuit. Does it stack well? What kind of mods can be done to it? What happens to it in a feedback loop? Who uses it? Why you love it, why you hate it. Whatever.

Foxx tone machine hype! Go!

[bigchiefbc]

I've got a FTM clone that has pretty much become my standard main fuzz. I love it because the normal (non-octave) mode is thick and heavy like a muff, but not as wooly and has a raspy edge to it. And the octave is great. I can get it really sing when I switch to the neck pickup on my bass, and on lower notes it just sounds really scrambled and ugly. Fantastic fuzz.

The only thing I ever really stack it with is an Elements in low-gain mode, and that really hypes up the saturation and makes the octave mode sound really scrambled and nuts. I've never modded it, although it might be cool to do a tone bypass like some peeps do on Muffs (not sure if the tone part of the circuit is the same as the muff)

[lapsteel]

Thanks for the insight bigchief! I was looking for an wonderfully ugly super saturated sound.

I am surprised this circuit isn't more popular around these parts. maybe if it self oscillated....

[Bellyheart]

It's popular on these parts. We just already went through it. I made one and it didn't work and a year later looked and realized I wires the power wrong. Got it to work and can't believe how this fuzz isn't more popular in general guitarist vocabulary. I guess because Hendrix didn't use one. Octave is mad and the general fuzz is great. The tone control is the only thing I felt was boring but that's how I usually feel with them types.

An active tone control would be great so it's boost the frequencies instead of decrease them. I don't know how to do that though.

[oldangelmidnight]

LaoWiz just built me a fantastic FTM with a few different diode clipping options. LEDs are a great alternative.

[Bellyheart]

LEDs always. It'd be cool to have a led/si blend with the two running in parallel.

[zeravla]

I've got one of the cheap Danelectro French Toast versions. I got it broken for cheaps. All it needed was the power jack replaced. It is MEAN. Way meaner than I would have expected. I've been meaning to rehouse it and I almost jumped on that Dirge but didn't have the cash at the time (congrats on getting that by the way, lapsteel. It looks gorgeous).
It seems like anyone that's tried the Tone Machine loves it, and how could you not?

[kbit]

I really love that circuit too. Active tone controls would be baller. Try rolling your volume knob back in octave mode for those weird resonant breaky sounds.

[LaoWiz]

It's definitely a mean sounding circuit. If you like nasty octave up, it is the best. The fuzz without the octave engaged is muffy but seems to be more cutting and nastier. Love that circuit!

[Holy Schnikes]

It's definitely a mean sounding circuit. If you like nasty octave up, it is the best. The fuzz without the octave engaged is muffy but seems to be more cutting and nastier. Love that circuit!

I have your old FTM clone and I love that mofo. Cosmetically and sonically.

[LaoWiz]