Tripple fuzz tone control ?

[mat]

Hi there,

Has anyone built a tone or other extra adjustable control for the Tim Escobedo's Tripple Fuzz (http://www.geocities.com/tpe123/folkurban/fuzz/snippets.html) without sacrificing the wonderful tone it produces ?

I really love the sound of this circuit (thank You Tim for this one also   ), but could use a suggestion for an extra control.

The reason i'm asking this is that i made accidentaly a third (potentiometer) hole on the enclosure  :shock:  :oops:  :oops:  :roll:

cheers,
mat

[RickL]

A few suggestions you may want to consider.

1) Use a spst switch to lift the diodes at the end of the circuit

2) Use a dpdt switch to bypass the whole second part of the circuit after the 1uF cap. This will let you use the circuit as a clean (or at least cleaner) booster, with the Gain control acting as a volume control.

3) Make a simple passive tone control using a capacitor and a pot in series to ground (maybe 0.01uF and 500k? but experiment with both cap and pot value) connected exactly the way a tone control is on a guitar. You might try connecting it immediately after the 1uF cap or immediately before the volume control.

4) Try connecting a pot between the diodes and where they connect to the circuit (either side of the diodes should work). More resistance should soften the effect of the diodes.

[mat]

Hi RickL,

Very cool ideas, thank You  

I must try these immediatly  :!:

cheers,
mat