After a whole lot of life happened, I have found relief back in my hobby of building electronic guitar pedals.
To start back up, I decided I would take on the long drawn out battle I have had with the 7 transistor Fuzz War by Death By Audio.
This pedal has always interested me and I loved the sound every time I would start building it on the breadboard. Problems would arise however, whenever it came time to complete the circuit and there would be strange pedal properties or problems that were encountered.
Also there was a skeptical issue regarding the schematics that were floating around. So this time around I cracked open the pedal myself and started to trace it out only to discover that the circuit was different from the designs floating around.
So I messed around with it on the breadboard and made some improvements based on all that I have learned all this time that I've spent on websites and forums. and voila!!!
The sound I have been looking for and a more stable 7 transistor design that overcomes issues with the "original" V1. I say original because apparently there were multiple versions of the 7 transistor design before they transformed the pedal into "yet another big muff" type of circuit.
1. Louder output volume
2. External gain knob
3. Added tonal options
4. Gating incorporated into the design
The prototype
Back at screen printing...
Assembled pedals...
Pedal promotions on my kitchen counter with some duo chromatic bags for the duo chromatic pedals...
I put some youtube demos together, I'm still learning how to put a video demo together that doesn't use the phone audio, I think I can synch up the timing with a video and the recording from my DAW.
Oh well, in the meantime at least there isn't a foot in the video.
Enjoy
Bass
https://youtu.be/b8LStLAE1cw
Guitar
https://youtu.be/WM2y8F8FtZo
In the context of a Song
https://youtu.be/uoUQD6ly9qI
