Zygote build, Black Fuzz

[sgmezei]

Here is my latest FUZZ project. I used a road rage and a wicked board from Haberdasher. A pair of Russian GT402's that sound pretty good right now. Socketed a bunch of parts to experiment.

The enclosure is from Mouser. I got a couple funky ones from them to try out. I am sure they will be posted soon.


By scottmezei at 2012-04-03


By scottmezei at 2012-04-03


By scottmezei at 2012-04-03

[night-B]

Such a nice build! I love this enclosure. Unfortunately, shipping from mouser to EU is prohibitive...

[DutchMF]

That is one cool fuzz! I'm a sucker for that finish from Hammond, durable as hell! Kinda looks like a UFO......

Paul

[DutchMF]

Such a nice build! I love this enclosure. Unfortunately, shipping from mouser to EU is prohibitive...

He night-B, I'm not sure what you mean by "prohibitive", but a few weeks ago I got free shipping when I ordered over 75 euro's....

Paul

[gtr2]

very cool!

love the bakelight knobs

josh

[nzCdog]

Man that is one cool lookin pedal!  Do the enclosures come prepainted Scott?
Nice job

[night-B]

Hey Paul!
I think my order wasn't big enough 'cause I had nearly 20€ of shipping to France. I'll give it a try with a bigger basket

[Haberdasher]

Dude, that is bad!
Love those knobs too.

[sgmezei]

Man that is one cool lookin pedal!  Do the enclosures come prepainted Scott?
Nice job

I got this enclosure already coated. They had 5 or 6 colours and plain. Pretty Funky Purple will be the next one I post up.

[lincolnic]

Much like everyone else, I'm digging those knobs...do you have a link for those, by chance?

[Diamond]

Such a nice build! I love this enclosure. Unfortunately, shipping from mouser to EU is prohibitive...

He night-B, I'm not sure what you mean by "prohibitive", but a few weeks ago I got free shipping when I ordered over 75 euro's....

Paul

Didn't you have to pay customs and taxes (invoerrechten en BTW) for such a large out of EU order? BTW, Musikding.de also sells an enclosure that looks like this one! I don't know if the sizes are the same though: http://www.musikding.de/product_info.php/info/p3107_Hammond-1590STPC.html They're based in Germany, so shipping within the EU will probably only be slightly more expensive than within country.

At the topic starter: I have some Russian germaniums just like that, GT404's. They are the NPN version of your GT402 and sound great in fuzzes! Uber cheap, just the GT402's, and can be used without a Road Rage board.

Looks great with the large knobs btw! Did you socket nearly every resistor? What were the results?

[sgmezei]

The knobs are the WKRCA from Weber seen here:
https://taweber.powweb.com/store/knobord.htm

They are awesome and worth the price tag hahaha. The bigger the better. I see these on Universal Audio preamps and they have an even bigger version of these. Wish I could find them.

[lincolnic]

Thanks for the link...definitely going to be on the lookout for an excuse to use those in the future.

[claytushaywood]

cool  build man... how much are those enclosures running?
also, did you try the it308s in there?  did the 402s sound better?  this is gonna be my first build with the zygote and ill experiment for sure, but just wondering what youve found?

[sgmezei]

Both kinds of trannys sound awesome but I had sockets in this one and the legs in the 308's are so scrawny and fragile they don't like to stay in. They work fine in the SIP sockets but these larger ones for vintage trannys are a bit bigger.