Acetone Fuzz Master fm-2

[Thewintersoldier]

Magneto was right! I have now completed the holy trinity of super fuzzes, the super fuzz, the standard fuzz and now the fuzz master. It is clearly in the super fuzz camp but the octave is different and very searing above the 12th fret. It's funny how the circuit is like 90% the same yet feels and sounds noticably different, little changes make a difference. I used 2sc828r transistors instead of the 2n3904 in the build docs as the 828 are more in line with the originals trannies used. This required twisting of legs for the Japanese ecb pinout. I lifted the inspiration for the graphics from the helmet eqd used on their fuzz master general.
     Smallbear powder coated enclosure with no film waterslide. I prefer the tayda powder coat over the small bear for the no film. The glue spreads better on the tayda and therefore I get better adhesion. Also the smallbear powder coat comes off some when rubbing with alcohol to remove excess glue. Still got some pretty good results.

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[jimilee]

Jeeebus, you're killing it! Do you ever come up for air?

[Thewintersoldier]

Jeeebus, you're killing it! Do you ever come up for air?

Haha, it's like 3 hours of work here Jimi. Not like something big like a delay. I did this last night. Besides it's cold in Detroit right now.

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[jimilee]

Jeeebus, you're killing it! Do you ever come up for air?

Haha, it's like 3 hours of work here Jimi. Not like something big like a delay. I did this last night. Besides it's cold in Detroit right now.

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Oh yeah, forgot about that. I was referring to you knocking them out one after the other. I can see though, with it being cold. I'm waiting on one more part myself, to complete a decent sized run.


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[jjjimi84]

Nice work Chris! Fuzz maniac! Have you ever plugged them all in series and really went for it? Just ear splitting octave fuzz on octave fuzz on octave fuzz, all of Detroit would get pregnant.

[Thewintersoldier]

Nice work Chris! Fuzz maniac! Have you ever plugged them all in series and really went for it? Just ear splitting octave fuzz on octave fuzz on octave fuzz, all of Detroit would get pregnant.

I don't think I could handle that kind of child support Dan 

[Bio77]

Nice work Chris! Fuzz maniac! Have you ever plugged them all in series and really went for it? Just ear splitting octave fuzz on octave fuzz on octave fuzz, all of Detroit would get pregnant.

I don't think I could handle that kind of child support Dan 

Lol 

Looks awesome, Chris!  You are going to pass 200 by spring.

[cooder]

Super sweet fuzzyness there....! Excellent again.

Weird that the Smallbear powder coat is sensitive to alcohol... thanks for the heads up, I still have some Smallbear powder coated boxes in the drawer, will watch out for that.

[Bret608]

Now that you've completed the triumvirate, I have to ask--is there one that you prefer out of the three? Love the Magneto theme!

[Betty Wont]

I prefer the FM-2 for its super quiets noise floor. The other two are noisy.

[Drew Hallenbeck]

Very tidy!
I really like how you insulated and twisted the transistor legs. I might not have even noticed it if you hadn't mentioned doing it.

[Thewintersoldier]

Now that you've completed the triumvirate, I have to ask--is there one that you prefer out of the three? Love the Magneto theme!

I agree with torgoslayer, the fm-2 is super quiet,  what I really like is that the octave doesn't really come out till you get above the 12th fret leaving the lower frets sounding like mostly fuzz. The others have the octave mixed all over the neck and it doesn't ever sound as clear as it does on the fm-2.

Very tidy!
I really like how you insulated and twisted the transistor legs. I might not have even noticed it if you hadn't mentioned doing it.

Thanks  Drew, I always try to make it look clean, even though it's just for me and I'm the only one who will probably ever see it.