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Here's a fuzz I've worked up for bass.
It's based on the Whisker Buscuit, with a pre-gain control, lower gain Q2 and various different cap values to make it a bit more bass friendly.
Then the whole thing is in the loop of a B-Blender so the clean signal can be mixed back into the fuzz.

It works very well, the gain varies between overdrive and flat-out endless fuzz, and the clean blend means that you never lack clarity and bottom end, even when extremely shrill or mushy fuzz is dialed in and this makes for some ritch and very thick bass tones.

The guitarist who commissioned this, I'm not kidding, was concerned that 4 knobs might be a few too many for his bass player...

However, I think 4 knobs is a good number.
He's got four strings, four fingers, four beats in the bar, four notes (root, fifth, octave & a chromatic approach note) and is four-tunate just to be in the band

I don't get to build for bassists much, but am already planning mkII, which will be on one board, use a TL074, use a purple color-scheme and have an additional send and return loop.







A pic for the Stoner Rock crowd, who'd love this pedal:

This is absolutely TERRIFIC!!!! WIN!

This is definitly my favorite etch of yours to date, i was really intrigued to see what your bass fuzz would be, when you posted the blender layout. Way over what i expected!

As a side note i'm working on an upcoming built, with your blend layout.

Wow, that's a brilliant combo! Care to share your subs for the WB? I think my next project is a bass board (blasphemy, I know ).

Lovely stuff mate. A really nice build and a neat idea.

LOL at the worry of the bassist finding 4 knobs too many ha ha !

Quite hardcore!!

Sure.

For the 'Biscuit, I tried a few things, though looking at it again now it's back to pretty much stock...
The main changes are a 2N5088 at Q2, a 680n cap at C8 (which is a hangover from earlier experimentation and probably makes little difference) and the addition of a 1M pot at the input as a gain control.

In the B-Bender I simply uped C1, C5 and C6 to 470n (value chosen because I seem to have a gazillion)

One interesting thing I learned was that, rather than raising the input and out put caps on the fuzz, (as you might think would work well) just produces the dreaded flubby mush.
Limiting the bottom end content in the fuzz , but adding clean bottom produces a much bigger & better sound.

That's great! Love the etch!

Where is the layout for the blend located. I may have to steal this idea from for use on my second WB board I have!

Thanks Dave

Here's the lowdown: B-Blender

Is it ok if I steal that purple pic for the next obrero booklet Ben?

Absolutly

Stolen! Will send you the new CD when its done as proof, along with the previous 2 outings. Fair deal?
PM me if you got it in 300dpi

Sweet!