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Clean Signal: Tele deluxe into a joyo American sound. Reverb/ambience added in post.

Here is a project of mine uploaded before, now with a better demo. This is an NYC big muff with added 3-band tone control and glitch switches. Additionally, there is a Woolly Mammoth style fuzz from guitarpcb.com, an analog octave up, and a Jfet boost in the style of the fetzer valve from runoffgroove (this is the stage 3 boost from guitarpcb as well. Woolly mammoth and Big Muff are running through an order switcher and then it is octave to boost.

Here is a write up with full details of the circuits and mods:

So, starting off with the big muff: The first set of diodes are removed, making it closer to the topology of a tonebender. So it is louder than a standard big muff. I also replaced the second set of diodes with yellow LEDS, which made it even louder and gave it some real high end bite. I hate the standard big muff tone knob-- love the mids too much. So the tone knob was replaced with a three band active eq. Finally, I put in 2 feedback mods that can be turned on with toggles-- the two outside switches on top, or momentary buttons. I wouldnt have included these if I knew how they would sound, but there wasnt a whole lot out there on how they did sound so I figured why not. They can do a few cool ramping sound tricks, but not a whole lot beyond that. Less of feedback switches and more of a glitch switch.

The pedal on the far right is a mammoth (mastondon-like) fuzz from guitarpcb.com. Knobs are Volume, wool, pinch, EQ. Volume is pretty self explanatory. The wool(fuzz) always seems to be affecting the pedal, even when in the lowest position--it overdrives it slightly. Full on its super gnarly. Pinch is super cool. I really dont know why all fuzz pedals dont just have this. its a voltage starve (?) i believe. Everything becomes really "stabby" for lack of a better term when its on low. [edit-- it "adjusts the pulse width of the waveform," according to ZVex] EQ works great. On bass it really tames the "icepicks in the ear" kind of sound, but I like it sitting kind of in the middle-- if its on too low it takes a lot of the character away from the fuzz. The mammoth Really fills out the sounds that the muff do. It sits in the angry velcro territory more than the smooth distortion of the muff.

The muff and mammoth are going through an order switcher toggle-- middle one in the top row.

Third, the circuit goes into an analog octave. This gives some really cool chiming sounds, especially at higher gain. I always get a saloon-y sounding piano sound in my head, with a chain across the strings to give it some interesting chimes.

Finally, the cicuit goes to the stage 3a Jfet booster from guitarpcb. I really like this circuit and will probably make another pedal with it in the future. It brings out all of the really nice mid-range chime I really like. 1 control-- volume. I have an internal trimmer set to about half, so if I want it to get hotter I can adjust that in the future. The toggle on the far left is supposed to be a fat boost, but I cant hear any difference from it.

Couple questions I can imagine will pop up:

1: Why? A: because I was bored and had a lot of free time 2: Footswitches are too close together? A: probably, but I staggered their height, so its actually pretty easy to hit the one you want and not activate another effect.

Overall, a very fun build--if not long. Tested all of the circuits beforehand so there was minimal trouble, but I did have a problem with the big muff-- input and output wires were mixed up. This is why you shouldnt switch up your wiring color scheme...