Topic: Shizzle
After much turmoil and violence, I finished a Shizzle pedal. I shouldn't have so much trouble with something that's my own design! But, I chose the hard route what with all the hand-wiring craziness...... Anyway, after all was said and done, I finally have what I would consider to be a final circuit for the Shizzle and also what I would consider my final layout.
Looksi here:
Beautiful, I know, you don't need to tell me. :wink: Ah, if only you could hear this thing! It's very hard to describe a three-stage Germanium transistor fuzz as a smooth tube-like overdrive, but that's exactly what this thing can do! That's what makes Shizzle special, and why I have disdain for those people who thing fuzzes are put on this earth to make squealing noise.
I promise, I swear, I vow that later this weekend I will have sound samples of this thing up so you can hear what I'm talking about. I really wish I could do a video so you can watch me tweaking the knobs, but all I have available is a shitass webcam and I'm not entirely sure how I would manage recording audio and video simultaneously. My guess, is I'd probably use two machines to do it and sync them later. I say that because I want the recorded audio to be of good quality, so I'll have to do that with my desktop, but all my video ability is on my laptop..... hmmmm, yes - need to figure something out for that...
I will update this topic later later to give more info about this astonishing circuit. I know there's probably some ass out there who'll say something like "that's already been done... blah blah blah" - well, fine, if it was I didn't know about it. I came up with the idea one day when I was using my Rangemaster to boost my Fuzz Face. Then I built the thing and while I was tweaking it, I discovered all the awesome variations available, which I've never heard on another box, so whatever, I don't care how original the circuit is, I'm not trying to patent it. Nothing magical here, just a cool sound.
