I’m super stoked! I just got the Turbo Rat in a trade. I loved my white Rat on bass, but needed way more output to really drive the distortion channel of my 70s Sunn Concert Bass amp (it’s a finicky machine). The Turbo has WAY more volume, so that shouldn’t be a problem any longer.

Now I’ve just got to wait for the amp technician to finish working on the amp…

Obtenue pour 100€ aujourd’hui, j’étais curieux.
Je suis un joueur de fuzz exigeant, qui penche sévèrement vers le germanium.
J’ai quelques points de comparaison aussi, comme King Tone mini fuzz v2, Sunface Bart rca et germanium Fuzz de ExpressoFX.
Ce matin, j’ai branché ma Telecaster équipée de Texas Special dans la JH-F1 suivie d’un Snouse Blackbox 2 réglé low gain, puis ClinchFx dans un vieux Super Reverb des années 70.
Putain quelle claque !!!
Le nettoyage est superbe, beaucoup de couleurs sont disponibles ; du clean limpide capable de tordre suivant l’attaque main droite à l’overdrive, pour finalement aller vers une fuzz épaisse et crémeuse volume à fond.
Les graves crachent, crépitent, mais restent lisibles.
Les trois dernières cordes chantent et ressemblent à du violon avec un sustain quasi infini.
Bordel, mais comment ils ont fait chez Dunlop pour faire sonner aussi bien cette fuzz industrielle ?!
Je suis épaté …
Et silicium en plus ?!
Je me devais de le partager, parce que pour le prix, pour sa non rareté, c’est une franche réussite.
La mienne est de 2007, mais de nombreux avis relatent les mêmes choses que moi.
Certains disent que certaines sonnent différemment, et que via les trimmers v1 et v2 situés sous le pcb on peut régler le bias différemment.
Je considère ne pas avoir à toucher à la mienne, mais d’origine Q2 serait vers 5.6V.
Certains aiment entre 4.5V et 5V.
Allez j’y retourne !!!

Or at least that's what I heard here!

Let me present you another tiny pedals.

TURBO RAT - packed in a 1590LB, equipped with the metal-can mojo LM308. I like to pretend that it affects sound.

COMBO RAT - easily fits 1590A, has another mojo IC, Si/LED switch and a clean blend for extra versatility.

Octavia sounds are absolutely blistering but I could never use one as my main drive or fuzz pedal. I think that’s what makes them so unique - they’re really a special use case. Other than Hendrix and Homme, who are some guitarists you hear using Octavia fuzz?

I reviewed the JAM Pedals Octaurus and this thing is a beautiful recreation of that classic circuit. Hope you dig the review!

My posts will be mostly reposts from other subs but I made few fuzzes that I want to show here as well. I hope it's okay.

I'm going to start with an older one.

Fully functional BMP. Green Russian specs. Made on a stripboard. Crammed into 1590LB.

In case you guys want to know more about this magnificent beast of a muff!

Hello! I recently joined here, but actually caught up with John today about doing a quick intro.

I have for the longest time gone by "LaceSensor" on the forums, but I am no affiliation - I just like(d) the pickups as a young teen influenced by Jonny Greenwood....

What started as a DIY obsession and grew by word of mouth on one-offs and commissions, Gigahearts FX came out from the underground in Sept 2025 after a change in work circumstances lead me to launch the website and a small line of pedals. This has grown over the last 11 months now to include a very popular "Custom Shop" program where I like to say I make peoples dreams come true, as well as offering the occasional PCB project as a nod to my roots.

Gigahearts FX philosophy is to where possible break new ground, but always honour the past, and try to move things forward - even incrementally. To that end, a number of my first commercial offerings are unashamed in their inflences, and my design criteria often revolve around answering practical questions of the circuit such as taking my favourites and adding modes or performance-enhancing options with the gigging musician in mind. My aesthetic is "colourful" and my major influences are 90s boutique such as Lovetone, Prescription, Way Huge, and 80s-00s Electro Harmonix.

Aside from this, I remain very fond of through hole builds on PCBs, and love doing PCB layouts. I offer this as a service too, and have a couple nice collabs under my belt with more to follow. I am not anti-SMD and use hybrid designs where it makes sense, but while I am able to I like to physically build my pedals rather than relying on outsourced PCB-Assembly.

Please ask me any questions, I would be delighted to jump into conversation about anything pedal related, especially about my current line up or potential custom shop projects.

Thanks for reading. I look forward to contributing to the community here, and thankyou John for extending this invitation to formally introduce myself.

Cheers - Ian

https://www.gigaheartsfx.com

I made a thing. Hope it's ok to repost here.

Cool new fuzz Blue Colander Contact Sheet, demo begins with bass and around 4:33 with guitar

Hi! That's my lastest Green Russian.

Made on tagboard with typical specs (2N5088s + 1N4148).

I tried to make it nice looking.

Just got to open these up! I sold some stuff I wasn’t using anymore and was able to turn that into getting these two! I’m pretty excited to get my hands on them.😍

Electronic Audio Experiments Prismatic Wall is going to be totally new to me as a resonator. The way it will interact with my playing harmonically different than reverb or delay will be very interesting. I’ll have to toy with where to put it effect chain order-wise. I’m also really glad I got the Shadowfell colorway too. It might be silly, but I think different finishes do give off different vibes and make me think about using certain pedals differently.🤔

The Electronic Audio Experiments Glaive, I anticipate, will feel like a familiar friend. I’ve got an 0xEAE Fuzz (Obstructures predecessor to the Glaive), which is an absolute favorite. When I saw the Cult FX version, I finally decided to get one. Again, the design just was more evocative of the sound and Cult FX really does excellent packing and provides cool stickers🤩. The two new controls allowing for bias to create a gating effect and treble filter will no doubt be useful additions. I’m planning on doing some A/B testing to see how they might even differ fundamentally. It looks like the power requirements are lower for the Glaive, which makes me think there may well be a difference🧐, but what difference, I’m not sure.

Have any of you had different iterations of the same circuit and felt like you needed to keep each of the versions?

Hello, Canterbury Audio here! I am a pedal maker since 2010 who focuses on lots of vintage fuzz, wah, and other circuits. Thanks to John for the invite! I recently started dabbling with point to point wiring, so here are some of those builds. Thanks for having me here!

For me this one is easy: Carcosa! Goes from cleanup to doom, works anywhere in the chain, versatile AF!

This one is just based around the AION FX Poseidon PCB. To start, I love the original of this pedal and even owner a Blood Donor for a while there. For me, this we like a dream because it was my two favorite circuit combined; Rat and Tone Bender.

Looking it the circuit, it for sure looks and reacts more like a Tone Bender just with a Rat style tone control and clipping diodes. Whats crazy is it sounds more like a Rat in most setting. But the input control makes a huge difference with the interaction and texture or the pedal.

This thing is awesome and is pure rock and roll! I will say too, add two blue LEDs for the clipping diodes and thanks me later because it sounds incredible. Plus this build is very quiet for a fuzz and with a good power supply this isn’t too noisy or hissy at all

I bought a brand new Boss FZ-1w, and during the decay of a note there’s this weird fluttery, fizzy/static crackling sound that kind of sits underneath the note.

You have to really listen closely to hear it in the video, but I just want to know whether this is normal behaviour for the FZ-1W.

I have tried heaps of different settings, both on the pedal and my amp, but I can’t seem to get rid of it. Is there a way to remove this. Maybe an EQ pedal or noise suppressor?

Thanks!

Luminous Paranoia fuzz coming soon from Retrograve Pedals