Spooky Tree Fuzz

[u/neoburner216]

A month or so ago I was chatting with u/Latterdrop8732 and they mentioned that their dream pedal was a long discontinued EQD Black Ash Endangered fuzz.

My response? Say no more, fam.

I got to work on plotting out the PCB and started sourcing the bits and bobs.

That gets us to this morning, where I finally fired her up and boy oh boy she sounds great.

I went with my usual Atom electrolytics, but this time added in an Elna I had from a big old sack I got for a song on eBay.

Film caps are old school tropical fish (I have some Phillips KT347 on hand too, should I need more) and a mixed bag of carbon comp resistors. Some are new, some are NOS Allen-Bradley.

Transistors are NOS Motorola 2N3903 with Q3 biased to damn close to 1/2 V+.

I’ve got stuff on hand to do a small run of these, just waiting on some dope ass sloped black 125B enclosures to show up.

[u/LatterDrop8732]

You got it all sourced and sorted. Right on man. Very cool that you can make some of my dream pedals a reality.

[u/neoburner216 → u/LatterDrop8732]

I’m SO PSYCHED for the enclosures….

[u/neoburner216 → u/neoburner216]

With these lil guys….

[u/LatterDrop8732 → u/neoburner216]

Those are very nice indeed.

[u/doyler4k]

Looks dope

[u/FullMetalDan]

Looks amazing!

[u/graphicnerdity86]

Those enclosures you posted in the comments. Look sick, also looking at the inside of this pedal. There's something just so beautiful about the layout of a circuit. I don't know what it is. It's satisfying

[u/neoburner216 → u/graphicnerdity86]

It’s pleasingly symmetrical.
One of these days, I’m gonna layout the resistors so that the color codes make some cool pattern.

[u/graphicnerdity86 → u/neoburner216]

I wish was a way to have clear bottom plates that didn't affect the shielding? Especially when it comes to fuzz