Colourtone Bass Fuzz

[PaulM]

Here’s my second build, chose Colourtone Bass Fuzz, as I like fuzz effect, and have bass. Bit more work and time into this one as opposed to the Mastadon I did for first build, but rewarding in the end to have a pedal that functioned when first plugged in. Again, graphics is not something I am particularly interested in at this point, as I want to build functioning pedals, and with experience, try different enclosures and layouts. I chose 1590BB enclosure for this build, to give myself room to work, maybe with experience I can make things a little more compact. I used pcb mounted pots in Mastadon which was very handy for mounting pcb, this build does not have that option, which made mounting the pcb bit trickier, but also gave freedom for pot layout, ended up just cable tying pcb to pots (extra insulation between them), bit ugly, but effective.

Anyway, pleased with this effort, visually the red enclosure with gold knobs looks decent enough, and pedal worked first time, it sounds great, can get a bit crazy if you want it to, but also dial it back a bit.

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