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PCB Guitar Mania

Seaweed Fuzz

Based on the Fuzzhugger Fx Algal Bloom· 5 other boards clone it

Category
Fuzz· Harmonically rich fuzz
Controls
Bloom · Level · Gain
Difficulty
Low
Price
€9.90out of stock

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From the vendor

Project overview

Harmonically rich Fuzz with great definition and texture. Inspired by Algal Bloom v1 by Fuzzhugger FX.

Introduction

From the very first moment you try this fuzz, you will be blown out by the richness of its screaming harmonics and its chord-friendly definition. Yet, you will keep on yourself amusing by the versatility of this little board as it shows its capability from delivering a wide range of tones from mellow to gritty overdriven tones to heavy thick, saturated fuzz, keeping always sparkling harmonics and pristine note definition!

To clarify, this board is inspired by the first version of the Algal Bloom by Fuzzhugger fx, but after trying this machine, we can sure that realizing a version inspired on v2 featuring some extra features is a matter of time!

Meanwhile, you can take a look at its doomy bass-friendly Doom Boom that shares quite in common with the Seaweed.

This circuit has been verified with both 2n5088 and 2n5089, but you can socket and try some other alternatives as mpsa18 and share your results with our pedal builder community!

Controls

• Bloom

• Gain

• Level

• Starve

For further analysis on this circuit take a look at this thread on Free Stomp Boxes Forum.

For any technical questions regarding this build don’t forget to check out our Facebook Group and our forum at Free Stomp Boxes.

Seaweed Fuzz – Building Docs

Seaweed Fuzz – Drilling template

Schematic

The schematic is in the vendor's build document, page 5. Open the build document. No KiCad fragment has been drawn for this circuit yet.

Parts list 24 rows

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RefValueNormalizedTypeNotes
Resistors 9
R7100k100k
R11k1k
R51k1k
R21m1M
R61m1M
R91m1M
R32m22.2M
R447k47k
R84k74.7k
Capacitors 7
C2100n100n
C3100n100n
C5100n100n
C1470p470p
C747n47n
C6100u100u
C42u22.2u
Diodes 2
D01n58171N5817
D11n9141N914
Transistors 2
Q12N50892N5089
Q22N50892N5089
Potentiometers 3
BLOOM100k100k
LEVEL100k100k
GAIN500k500kA STARVE
LEDs 1
LED3mm RED LED3MM RED LED

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