Way Huge Swollen PickleVerified

From the post

Thanks to Kit Rae for the schematic. I've seen a few schematics for this and the Kit Rae one has an extra connection between Filter 3 and the base of Q4 (pin 13). Maybe you want to try making that connection and see what you think.

Info about the original thanks to the Wayback Machine :o)

Stand back! This pedal has more fuzz than a moldy peach. The Swollen Pickle is a 70's style fuzz that goes from mild crunch to Armageddon! "For truly vulgar, lard-assed fuzz, it's tough to top the Swollen Pickle Jumbo Fuzz. Buzz boxes just don't get much more corpulent than this. It's tone control elicits an insane range of heavily band-pass-filtered tones, all distinguished by remarkable girth and sizzle" Guitar Player Magazine (Sept. '96). Units have loudness, sustain and filter controls.

Video for the reissue but it'll be close enough

For those of you who do want to cheat as Javi mentioned below :o), you can do it like this

Or you could build it exactly as per the IC version, put a socket in for the IC and push the transistors into the IC socket. Then you can wait until you find the ICs at a good price, or just until they arrive, and swap over when they do.