Labelled Shin-Ei FY-2 Companion Fuzz

Experiment with water slide decals on a FY-2 for Mickey.

Toshihiko Tanabes Buzzaround

Toshihiko Tanabe sent me this photo of his Buzzaround that I made for him.  He has added his own great looking graphics!

Germanium Little Bass Muff Pi

This is a birthday present for Neil from Seeland/Windscale.  It's the first time I have used Hammerite and waterslide decals.  Looks good but I made a slight error with the clearcoat which has wrinkled some of the top surface, lessons learned for the next time!  The pedal is a modified Little Muff Pi booster circuit, bigger input/output capacitors and an added gain control, plus I converted the whole circuit to positive ground and used pnp germanium transistors.  It's more of an overdrive than a booster now.  The circuit is done on tag board and using mostly cloth covered wire I recycled from a repair job.

Daves Fuzz Face

I sold Dave a Ge Fuzz Face tag board plus everything else he needed to make a pedal and here is the result of his work.

Ollies Buzzaround

Ollie sent me some pics of his self decorated Buzzaround.  Yes that's a 9V DC input, he persuaded me to add one!

Joes Tube Booster for use with synths

Joe sent me a "c64ised" photo of his Tube Booster in use, here's what he has to say - "My tubebooster has two jobs. The first is in processing my synth drum sounds. I'm layering up lots of component sounds then resampling the result through the tube to give it a bit of unifying crunch. Proper good.  The pedal's second job is as a live effect for my Dave Smith Evolver monosynth, which has lovely analogue oscillators and filters but a very digital all-or-nothing distortion. The tubebooster, used in moderation, gives my bass sounds plenty of compression but with warmth, soul and a bit of welcome unpredictably. That's not to say I don't crank it up from time to time too, and it's more than capable of full-on overdrive which sounds great on leads.  A quick but important technical note: the tubebooster is designed to accept an instrument signal (like a guitar), not a line signal (like a synth) so I needed to reduce my synth's volume to around 10% of normal (-20dB) before inputing it to the pedal. Also, because the pedal's output is an instrument signal, I'm running it through a DI box before it goes into my sampler. Anyone planning to run it straight into a guitar amp will be fine though; just remember to keep your synth at a low volume (around 10%).

Buzzaround and 1 knob fuzz

2 pedals for Juergen in Germany, did the 1knob on tag board and it has a 9v dc input and blue led.

Power Hungry - An Experimental Circuit Bent Compilation

Windscale have a track on the new Tiger Claw compilation, download for FREE at GetLofi.  Also if you go to the Windscale Myspace you can hear 4 newly recorded tracks with drummer Neil Spragg! Windscale Myspace

Burns Buzzaround for Ollie

Burns Buzzaround clone for Ollie.  1 hour of debugging revealed 1 solitary trace cut I missed on the board, doh!  works great now ; )

Tube Booster

Tube Booster for Joe.

Burns Buzzaround for Toshihiko

Burns Buzzaround clone for Toshihiko in Japan.

Fuzz Factory clone

Been waiting to use this enclosure for ages so I built myself a zvex Fuzz Factory clone using tag board.

Burns Buzzaround for Chris

Buzzaround clone for Chris in the USA, green led, ac126/128 transistors.

Seans fixed fuzz pedal

Sean gave be a pedal to fix a while ago, I won't name the USA based maker but honestly I have not seen such a shoddy piece of work that somebody has paid their hard earned cash for!  Anyway Sean gave me a new case and the guts of the pedal, had to re-solder most of the joints (terminal strip based circuit), most of the capacitors on the 6 way input cap rotary switch, new input and output jacks, new battery clip, pots resoldered.  Basically remaking the whole pedal!  So what does it sound like?  What is the circuit? A harsh sounding pnp Si Fuzz Face with switchable input cap and clipping diodes attatched to the volume control.