Hot Chilicon Fuzz (my 1st pedal build!)

[jalmonsalmon]

 I thought I would share!
This the 1st pedal I ever attempted to build and I really learned how to make solder FLOW after this one.
Unforgiving etched PCB for a noob = solder blobs! I cleaned the board up however and checked the traces with a DIMM and all is well! I have since then bought a better soldering iron with the pencil tip and know how to solder now 
Hot Chilicon Fuzz for those that don't know is just a modded tonebender I think from Aron Nelson or something like that - has a tone knob and fat switch - 4 transistors and this thing sings!
I have a resistor sitting in sockets so I can use a trim pot to further tweak it but it sounds good as is so I never put the bias trimmer in LOL



and the guts


I have not see any decent youtube demos of this one so I made this

I think the next tonebender I am going to make is madbean's pastyface with some russian Ge's


Cheers!

[njkke]

Great job  

[jalmonsalmon]

 
yeah, I would have rather gotten a quality PCB from madbean than suffer with the OTHER pcb

[Jurassic]

Looking good! Thanks for the demo, sounds really nice!

[Bret608]

I really like the playing on the demo, very tasteful. Did you get this as a kit from Mammoth? I was sceptical about the Si transistors, but they sound really nice in a Tonebender-style circuit!

[jalmonsalmon]

Thank you everyone for the kind words!

Yeah I got that kit from mammoth and for four funky little Si transistors that cost next to nothing...
Aron Nelson's site has a vero of that one too under Ulysse's that I wish I saw before I got the kit. LOL
Pedal sounds great for what it does and side by side with my tonebender mk II it is *cough* more usable.
I love the Mk II but it is over the top and to really get everything out of the Mk II, IMO best on a cranked   (insert your favorite British amp here ) amp! 

BTW I just ordered a weener wah with the whipple... if I get that going properly, DEMO to follow  :thumbs up:

[slimtriggers]

Sounds really good!  I'm gonna go search for the vero layout for this one now

[GrindCustoms]

Nice looking built! But the «OTHER» left a bad taste in my mouth.....

Sounds really good!  I'm gonna go search for the vero layout for this one now

Hot Silicon is indeed a really nice circuit, if you ever do it, try it with BC549C or BC550, it «breath» a bit more than with the 2N5089....

[jalmonsalmon]

I am going to have to try the BC549C's or 550s in there. I always socket the transistors to I can mess around with them

thanks!

[TNblueshawk]

Congrats on your first and it looks great.

The single sided etches are a little different technique but nothing you can't get the hang of. I lay that iron on there a few seconds longer before I apply solder. Seems to work for me.

Nice chops too.

[Haberdasher]

very nice job with your first build, and you have already made more demos than me.

BTW I just ordered a weener wah with the whipple...

you will love the wah, it's amazing.