The Fuzzblaster
Not your mother’s Octave Fuzz pedal
The Fuzzblaster is based on the the Foxx Tone Machine, a huge and grunting Fuzz with a musical hum to it.
Unlike the Foxx Tone Machine, this has an independent Octave footswitch to make switching in and out of the extra high octave a lot easier, plus independent leds for the footswitches.
Volume is, well Volume.
Tone is Tone
Blast is the amount of Fuzz, from light Fuzz to effing ridiculous hairy gorilla-ass Fuzz.
Engage engages/disengages the pedal (true bypass)
Octivate engages/disengages the high Octave doubling.
I built this using stripboard for the circuit board and standard electrical components except for the 1N60 germanium diodes (the little red and clear tubes you can see near the bottom, hanging over the yellow tape) and vintage-ish 2N3565 transistors (the little black dome-top dealies).
The aluminum enclosure (but not the graphics, I did those) and green footswitch PCB are from mammothelectronics.com. The footswitch pcb just makes wiring the footswitch a bit more convenient.
