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Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender?
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 12:46 pm
by Gigahearts_FX
Hi guys
first build for me in quite a while; been on vacation and also had a lot of work on.
This is a build for my Dads 62nd birthday. In previous years Ive made him the odd pedal. This is definitely the coolest!
Its a fuzz face on a pedal parts PCB board, using gain matched (around 190hfe) BC108b metal can transistors.
I added 47pF smoothing caps just in case, and the output cap is 100nF rather than 10nF.
Its NPN, negative ground. I decided to keep it vintage and not add a power jack.
Case is a heavy (~1kg) Tone Bender mk1 enclosure from Pigeon FX in the UK.
Total build cost around £40. Sounds really good to me at least.
Here is the good stuff:
Re: Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 12:49 pm
by Chankgeez
Cute.
Re: Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 12:59 pm
by skullservant
Looks great man, good work. I wanna get one of those enclosures, they just work out to be a little expensive over here after shipping. I want to make myself another MK1.
Re: Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 1:13 pm
by goroth
Haha, that pcb in that case!
Re: Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 1:16 pm
by Uncle Grandfather
goroth wrote:Haha, that pcb in that case!
this
Re: Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 2:50 pm
by Moose
Nice build man, Love the idea!
Re: Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 3:18 pm
by Gigahearts_FX
Uncle Grandfather wrote:goroth wrote:Haha, that pcb in that case!
this
Of course
I'm making a second one but on vero... Way more mojo that way.
I wanted a pcb so I could populate it rapidly for the birthday present idea between work travel.
Re: Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:47 pm
by wildebelor
I love those enclosures, but $57AUD including shipping is STEEP.
Nice work man, I think your Dad will be very very stoked.
Re: Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 2:53 am
by Gigahearts_FX
Thanks!
The enclosures are literally 2.5x the cost I would typically spend on a Hammond pre cast but it's really heavy weight quality steel item. Justified in this application
Re: Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:31 pm
by Jakezor
Think of all the goop you could fit in that enclosure.
Re: Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 2:02 pm
by Nocentelli
Nice!
Gigahearts_FX wrote:Total build cost around £40.
Presumably excluding the case?
Re: Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 6:35 pm
by KaosCill8r
Gigahearts_FX wrote:Uncle Grandfather wrote:goroth wrote:Haha, that pcb in that case!
this
Of course
I'm making a second one but on vero... Way more mojo that way.
I wanted a pcb so I could populate it rapidly for the birthday present idea between work travel.
It is my dads 70th birthday tomorrow. I would get my dad one of them as a gift. But he would probably tape a stick to it and use it to play golf with.
It must be awesome to have a dad cool enough to rock the fuzz though. Are you gonna have a birthday fuzz jam session with him?
Re: Sacrilege - Fuzz Face in a Tone Bender case. Fuzz Bender
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 6:46 pm
by Gigahearts_FX
Nocentelli wrote:Nice!
Gigahearts_FX wrote:Total build cost around £40.
Presumably excluding the case?
No, total.
Case £25
Pcb £5
Parts on pcb £3
Switch and jacks £5
Wiring £1
Knobs £1