TrebleBooster before or after FuzzFace? Switching TrebleB from pre to post fuzz?

Started by Bandwagonesque, October 21, 2021, 12:30:55 PM

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Bandwagonesque

Hi folks. I have a si fuzz face with an AMZ pickup simulator circuit preceding it with plans to put a big muff tone stack with a possible gain recovery stage at the end of all of it. with all mods the circuit flow goes as such:

input->amz pickup booster->250K pre-gain control->si fuzz face->big muff tone stack w/possible gain recovery->output

i'm thinking out loud at the moment and away from the breadboard but was interested in putting a treble booster between the pickup simulator
and the 250K pre-gain/si fuzz face circuit as one would do per the 'rules of the road' in regards to a pedal chains order. Then i remembered the AM sunlion with its design having the Treble boost AFTER the fuzz face circuit. I've played one of these once and really liked what it did and put me on the fence on what would make the most sense. Then i was thinking if it would be possible to put the treble booster on a 3 position DPDT on-off-on switch so that I can have the circuit in pre-fuzz mode, post fuzz mode, and bypassed in the middle position.

Does this seem like an ideal approach to take in switching the treble booster from pre to post fuzz? will i need to stick pulldown resistors here and there to avoid popping? is this a good idea in the first place with the other mods i have incorporated? thanks for any help folks and open to any and all input from those who have done something similar. :) :)

PRR

Sounds like a question for a well-made breadboard. There are many possibilities and everybody has their own personal taste.
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Vivek

There are benefits of treble boost before fuzz

Maybe some benefits after fuzz but normally high freq are removed after distortion.

RG Keen had a 3 footswitch solution for each pedal on/off and order change (slight error at end of his schematic)

ElectricDruid

I'm not sure a on-off-on DPDT does the trick. This article shows that you need three poles switched as a minimum:

http://www.geofex.com/Article_Folders/juggler/juggler.htm


(This ignores the independent bypass switches for the separate effects, but that's a different question...)