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Allies FuzzVerified

Based on the Zzoyd Allies Fuzz· 2 other boards clone it

Category
Fuzz
Controls
Fuzz · Level
Build
Vero· 13×10· 4 cuts, 1 links
Layout
Verified · Tagboard Effects marks it as built and working
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Fuzz

From the post

Last one from Masaru Kubota's schematics: This fuzz kicks ass. I revamped Roger Mayer's Axis Fuzz and stuck on a phase stage to make the circuit sound like a tube amp. You probably notice the Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face biasing configuration. You can use a regular low-pass RC network, ala the ProCo Rat, to make the circuit sound like a "open" tube amp. This fuzz sounds ALOT like the "Modern Lead" amp model on my Zoom GM-200. You'll be surprised at how much this circuit sounds like a tube amp. The only thing "missing" is the desirable, fine-grain, underlying sheen, but who notices at a really loud rock show? The response feels really good. It even sounds really good with my horrible-sounding silverface CBS Fender Bassman (complete with aluminum trim and a mis-matched Fender cabinet loaded with P.A. speakers with whizzer cones). I hereby dedicate this schematic to not my father, my father was one of the Japanese-Americans in the American Internment Camps of World War II, but to Harry Meyer, my mother's first husband, who escaped from East Germany to become a representative of the BRD at the Hague in the Netherlands. For uniformity, all fixed resistors, except for the power supply resistor and of course the potentiometers, can be 100k resistors, to give a smoother response and for easier assembly.

A little thing worth noting; the schematic calls for 500 ohm pot for fuzz. As those are easily available, but no other design uses them, i sticked with 1K and placed 1K resistor in parallel with it. That makes the taper sort of an log, which might not give you the best feel for the control. So, use 1K pot as stated in the layout, or source some 500 ohm pots, use one of those and remove the 1K resistor between 1M and D1.

Schematic

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RefValueNormalizedTypeNotes
Resistors 4
×1470K470kread from the layout by eye
×410K10kread from the layout by eye
×21K1kread from the layout by eye
×1100K100kread from the layout by eye
Capacitors 2
×310nF10nread from the layout by eye
×3100uF100uelectrolytic; read from the layout by eye
Diodes 1
D11N41481N4148try 1N4001, 1N5817; read from the layout by eye
Transistors 2
Q12N22222N2222NPN (try 2N2222); read from the layout by eye
Q22N29072N2907PNP (try 2N2907); read from the layout by eye
Potentiometers 2
FuzzB1KB1kPotentiometerread from the layout by eye
LevelA100KA100kPotentiometerread from the layout by eye

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