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Title: MOTHER FUZZER (Ugly Face)
Post by: bigrigg on August 07, 2012, 10:35:45 AM
You Mother Fuzzer!  That's right.  Non Madbean, Ugly Face circuit.  PCB from musicpcb.com.  Good service from them folks.
This thing is nuts.  Harsh fuzz with lots of crazy sounds from cocked wah to octave up and down, added static, oscillates, sputters or gated etc. You can still get a regular fuzz with tons of sustain. I only added a few minor mods which were:
Changed Frequency pot to 250 k from BOM of 100 k.  More range.
Added a 1 N cap to input which eliminated some of the high end screech sounds here and there.
Added a 1M resistor to the volume pot as it was MEGA loud.  This tamed the beast.
Highly recommend this build if you like any whacky fuzz stuff.
Hope you enjoy.

(http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac124/digthebigrigg/MotherFuzzer.jpg)
(http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac124/digthebigrigg/MotherFuzzerGutshot.jpg)
Title: Re: MOTHER FUZZER (Ugly Face)
Post by: GrindCustoms on August 07, 2012, 12:15:02 PM
Nice one! I've been tempted by that fuzz for a while now.

Looks Great!

Rej
Title: Re: MOTHER FUZZER (Ugly Face)
Post by: culturejam on August 07, 2012, 01:15:35 PM
That's a sharp build, my friend.  :)
Title: Re: MOTHER FUZZER (Ugly Face)
Post by: juansolo on August 07, 2012, 01:34:30 PM
One of my favorite effects. There's a vero in Member's projects for the UF+LFO+mods.
Title: Re: MOTHER FUZZER (Ugly Face)
Post by: calciferspit on August 07, 2012, 03:28:56 PM
I built this one too and I love it. I added a voltage starve to mine for even more tweakability.
Title: Re: MOTHER FUZZER (Ugly Face)
Post by: Haberdasher on August 07, 2012, 03:41:20 PM
Love it.

I bought all the parts to make this one a while back so I guess I'll need to get a pcb sometime soon.  The sounds in the demos of this thing are bananas so I've been wanting to play around with one.  Although I'm not sure how much I'd actually use it.  But you guys know how it is.
Title: Re: MOTHER FUZZER (Ugly Face)
Post by: bigrigg on August 07, 2012, 06:20:09 PM
There are plenty of useable or "musical" settings.  Not to worry.  To be fair, there are some pointless settings of just awful noise, but that happens with most any of the whacky tweakable stuff.

Voltage starve.  Good idea.  I have a separate starve box I made and posted here called Zeus.  I will have to try the two together.  Weeee