Red Fuzz build report

[jrc4558]

Hi people!
After attempting this build some year ago and consecutively dismantling it, I decided to build it again. This time I used the LEDs i nthe NFL of the opamp, not the 1N4148s.
My god, what a pedal! I just came home after playing a show with it and, funny thing, I amost didn't touch my tubescreamer, which was previously my main pedal in both sets. My band plays a bridge between seventies-progressive and nineties-heavy rock, and, with a stratocaster, this Red Fuzz is probably the BEST pedal I have ever heard for my kind of needs.
I will probably rebuild it with 1% resistors, to get all the biases right, but for now - its an absolute killer. And the Craig Andertons compressor before it turns the Red fuzz into a very nice and smooth soloing overdrive...
Enough of a rant. I love this cirquit. Everyone who want a dynamic and raw sopund of a single coil equipped guitar absolutely must build this pedal.

Enormous gratitude to Robin Tomtlund http://hem1.passagen.se/robin2/effects.htm for the design and to JD Sleep http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/index.php for the PCB and the building project.

[mat]

I'll second all of the above 

mat

[mac]

If you liked this pedal with an std opamp, then try Joe Davisson's diode-compression opamp:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/analogalchemy/misc/diodeopamp.html
And mods I've done:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=44255.0

Also, there is an underrated pedal that sounds pretty cool and it is very similar to the red fuzz, the ibanez fatcat. The main difference is that the clipping diodes are silicons as in the mxr+.

mac