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SUSTAINTONEBALANCE

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Satronik Fuzz SustainerVerified

Based on the Satronik Fuzz Sustainer

Category
Distortion
Controls
Sustain · Tone · Balance
Build
Vero· 21×18· 25 cuts, 12 links
Layout
Verified · Dirtbox Layouts marks it as built and working
Tags
Distortion, Fuzz, Satronik

From the post

A few months ago, Alex and I made an attempt to trace an old polish fuzz/distortion that looked incredibly cool and was supposed to sound in the vein of a Rat or a Big Muff. Soon, we realized that the circuit design was quite unique, not resembling anything else. It is basically a bootstrapped booster into a 741 op amp running way above full tilt for op amp clipping. An offset null trimpot is there to fine tune the gating and the sustain for the op amp. Then the signal goes into a BJT powered Baxandall tone section with the bass control fixed midway. The tone control is the Treble control in the Baxandall network. So far so good but we failed just before the finish line...four of the resistor values was impossible to figure out so we pot it to bed. A few months later Blue Colander Stompboxes entered the scene.. They traced two Satronik units and posted a schematic on their DIY section of their website. That helped us fill in the missing gaps! Note that several cap and resistor values varied through its lifespan as well as the transistor selection. The differences are quite minor so the sonic character shouldn't that far off from unit to unit. The values in the layout below are almost solely from AlexS and mine trace.

Schematic

Schematic

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Check before you build · 2 values the reader of this layout was not sure of
  • 5.49K at column 14, rows H-K: printed clearly, unusual value
  • 30K (column 14, rows O-Q), 20K (column 15) and 200K (row Q, right): printed clearly, unusual values
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Resistors 18
×447K47kread from the layout by eye
×310K10kread from the layout by eye
×2100K100kread from the layout by eye
×2220K220kread from the layout by eye
×147Ω47read from the layout by eye
×1220Ω220read from the layout by eye
×1470Ω470read from the layout by eye
×11.2K1.2kread from the layout by eye
×13.3K3.3kread from the layout by eye
×15.49K5.49kread from the layout by eye
×115K15kread from the layout by eye
×120K20kread from the layout by eye
×122K22kread from the layout by eye
×130K30kread from the layout by eye
×133K33kread from the layout by eye
×1200K200kread from the layout by eye
×1470K470kread from the layout by eye
×11.5M1.5Mread from the layout by eye
Capacitors 6
×11.2nF1.2nread from the layout by eye
×12.7nF2.7nread from the layout by eye
×433nF33nread from the layout by eye
×51uF1uelectrolytic; read from the layout by eye
×12.2uF2.2uelectrolytic; read from the layout by eye
×1330uF330uelectrolytic; read from the layout by eye
Diodes 1
D11N58171N5817read from the layout by eye
Transistors 2
Q1BC108CBC108Cread from the layout by eye
Q2BC149BC149read from the layout by eye
ICs 1
IC1LM741LM741read from the layout by eye
Potentiometers 3
SustainB220KB220kPotentiometerread from the layout by eye
ToneB100KB100kPotentiometerread from the layout by eye
BalanceB50KB50kPotentiometerread from the layout by eye
Trimmers 1
×110K10kread from the layout by eye