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Hello there,

I was listening to Echoes some days ago and I was wandering how Gilmour got that seagull effect. With a quick search on the web I found that he was using an wah connected in reverse and his tone knob to create a feedback (or something like that, exact instructions here http://www.gilmourish.com/?p=754).

Any way, I was wondering what other crazy sounds you can achieve with using or misusing guitar pedals and guitar controls. The above text is a pretty good example to what I'm looking to see in that post.

I also have my own (kinda) sound I like to mess around with while writting songs that I think I have read it somewhere and I'm copying but I can't remember where.
So, I use a silicon Fuzz Face I've built, to max fuzz, and at the bridge possition on my strat I roll the tone all the way to zero. This gives me an even more  dark and distorted fuzz sound than before with more low and mid frequencies. I don't remember if I had the same effect on the middle pickup.

I would like to hear your own tips to achieve wierd (or not) tones that you like to mess around.

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Hello there,

I'm new to the DIY Guitar Pedal World (I've previously built a LPB-1 and  a Fuzz Face) and I tried to build the Bazz Fuzz with a modification I saw at DIY Guitar Pedals YouTube channel that adds a "Fuzz" control.

The basic schematic is from this website: http://home-wrecker.com/bazz.html.

I've used the v3 and I added a a switch to change between the 1N914 diode and an orange LED. I've drawn the final schematic as well as the perfboard orientation I made.
But when I tested it didn't seem to work. There was the exact same sound of the guitar as without the effect (the volume knob just adjusted the volume) but there was no "fuzz" sound.

(I know the transistors in the perfboard layout are the other way, they are the correct way at the circuit. Also I checked for solder bridges and there were none. Plus I replaced the switch with a wire to solve the problem first.)

Can any of you guys help me PLEASE??