Low Gain Fuzz?

[Haberdasher]

how 'bout a "muff fuzz" or "double muff"?

I am actually building the retrograde right now and trying to add a pre-gain pot to it to simulate a low gainer.  I breadboarded it without a pregain pot and it worked (sounds freakin' phenomenal, btw), but naturally as soon as I wire it up in the box with the extra pot I got nuthin.

Thanks for the suggestions though.  I'm not too familiar with a double muff...

[petesz]

I built a tonebender mk2 with a pre gain knob, absolutely love it, the pre gain makes it so much more versatile.

[cjkbug]

I built a tonebender mk2 with a pre gain knob, absolutely love it, the pre gain makes it so much more versatile.

does that help clean it up when you back off on the guitar's volume knob? I love tb's but that is the only gripe I've got with 'em.

[petesz]

definitely does, i can get a really nice low gain fuzz with it. i'd definitely recommend it if you are building a tonebender.

i took a video of it when i first built it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eGJ6eDW3hg
the sound quality is pretty bad but you can get an idea of how it cleans up.

[bigmufffuzzwizz]

This is a great mod that appears like it can be added to almost any circuit that has way to much "character." Sticking it right in front of the circuit is easy, but would it change how it worked if it was placed somewhere else like after a gain stage? I'm asking cause that's how it's used on the new BYOC orange distortion. If its all the same then the front of the circuit would be the easiest! 

[cjkbug]

I think the orange distortion has an input buffer. which would explain the difference.

[jkokura]

Still recommend the Muff Fuzz. It's over in the member's layouts section.

Jacob

[bigmufffuzzwizz]

Still recommend the Muff Fuzz. It's over in the member's layouts section.

Jacob

Used this layout to practice my first etching batch! Gotta go populate them, I bet they sound sick! Thanks for posting it.