soundtank FZ5 = big muff !?

[Steben]

Look at this fellow's contribution.
Maybe you all knew this. I did not.

http://members.aol.com/jeffhailey/fz5.htm

[MartyMart]

Ha !
That's quite close isn't it ? ...... hmmm

Marty.

[brad]

Ah crap.  I had the choice of buying either this pedal or a Soundtank Auto-Wah for AU$10 during a music store Xmas sale a few years ago.  The guy wouldn't let me take both -so I chose...THE AUTO-WAH 

If only I'd chosen the 60's Fuzz.  I could have had a $10 Big Muff!

[Steben]

Yes, but a big muff needs a rusty steel "tankjovski" casing in my eyes if you would buy it ;-). Esthetics, you know...
And it isn't that hard to DIY either.

[Ben N]

Well, it ain't quite there.  The FZ5 has pretty much no bottom, and if you look at the coupling and tone stack cap values you will see why.  Jeff also had some suggestions posted a while back for modding it closer.  I've got a couple sitting around waiting to mod, but I can't get to them right now--they are in another country!  It also seems to me that the BJT input buffer would be better as a JFET, and the JFET buffer ahead of the volume control maybe as a BJT(?), but the pinouts prevent a straight swap.  One of these days...

Ben

[Yun]

i've owned several of these Soundtanks (i've had about 3 60's fuzzes at one time), i thaught they sounded pretty good......Until i got my EH big-Muff back  . 

while it doesn't compare to the big-muff (in my own opinion) It works VERY well with chord progressions, and fizzy leads....