Twangamatic

[MartyB]

An effect from 1976 that's got a good country vibe:

http://www.freewebs.com/martyb/twangamatic.htm


I breadboarded it and tried several alternate transistors since I didn't have the 2n3394's.  Totally different sound than the Rangemaster.  Try it if you like a Nashville sound.

MartyB

[vortex]

Hey MartyB, I was checking out your site and was wondering how you made and applied the graphic on the Axis Fuzz. It's very cool!

[petemoore]

"UPDATED!"
 Looks pretty cool, Ive seen some of the ol mag Fuzzes around, 2 linear gain Q's kinda like that, looks EZ to figure, I've been wanting to try Ansil [Say, whatever happened to Ansil?] ...anyway his drilled through dowel board' technology...always wanted to do that just for kixx, then mount everything in a 3x2 square tube.

[MartyB]

From a previous thread:

"It's a Small Bear waterslide decal. The image of the Axis: Bold as Love album cover is off the web, as is the typed font. I worked with the image in bitmap form in MS Paint. If you need a recommendation for image file conversion software, check out ReaConverter Pro. There's a trial version that works pretty well. I really like Dragonfly's artwork, which he said was vinyl. You're limited to light color undercoat paint with waterslide because of translucency. This is my favorite fuzz, but I haven't built the venerable three-knob tonebender yet. "Blondie" is an american strat. She gets an awesome Hendrix vibe with the Axis fuzz. Build this pedal if you haven't yet. Some of them just deserve alittle extra dressing up."

Vortex, If you like I'll send you the bitmap artwork, correctly-sized for a taiwanese 1590BB box.

MartyB

[gotdabluz]

I agree . . . the Axis Fuzz looks really cool . . .
. . . but dude, you need to change those strings . . .
they look like you could get a fuzz tone from them alone  

[mojotron]

Oh ya.. I think that previous post was the post about your guitar and her new toy ... or something like that.... lol...... That was a great thread..

By the way.. I just finished using my first slide decal label experiment with the SOL softener... works great!! It does take some practice...

What is a country sound? I'm guessing it's like a Twin/Tele sound??

[Rob Strand]

An effect from 1976

That's from one of those 100 Projects mags from the US isn't it?  I had a couple of those - got some scans somewhere too.  IIRC, there were a few other effects like distortions and a twin-T wah.

[Regan]

I built the twangamatic at one point in time but didn't find it interesting at the time, its a nice easy build though.
Regan