"Triple Threat"

[pollyshero]

Years ago my first successful pedal build was the Tube Sound Fuzz from Craig Anderton's "Electronic Projects for Musician's".  It has been and always will be on my pedal board - it has its uses, but anyone who's ever built it is also aware of it's limitations.  I never tried any of the mods described in the book, but always did want "something more.  The WHRL looked like the best candidate.  My original TSF was in a poorly planned and overlarge enclosure and I'm at the point now where I need to start conserving space on my pedal board...  I decided to build both into one pedal.  As I built I realized that I could use either independently or each could be used as a clean/dirty boost for the other.  I've built a few pedals here and there but this is my first "triumph" - it sounds like what I expected to hear and is versatile enough to be considered (currently) my go-to overdrive.  Looks good too!

Board is etched from a Madbean "Snarkdoodle" layout.  The TSF is stock from Anderton's book values, WHRL is Madbean's Snarkdoodle values. It looks a bit messy but it sounds great.  The first implementation was a disaster - the TSF sounded OK but when the WHRL was kicked in I got apocalyptic buzzing due to the way I had the outputs shared as seen in the photos.  I've since changed the signal routing - Both sides are true-bypassed and the bypass output of the TSF now feeds the input of the WHRL and the WHRL output goes to the jack. Hope you like it.