possible combo bazz fuzz?

[Barcode80]

i just built the bazz fuzz for a bass player friend of mine. sounds great! i packaged it up in a 1590B, painted it chocolate brown with a red LED, put a white chickenhead knob on, and am naming it "Chocolate Thunder." (insert chuckles from our Aussie friends here...)

I was thinking though, how hard would it be to create a blend cicuit to tack on so that you can mix the clean signal with the fuzz signal? i just want to give him the option of leaving more of the unaffected signal in with a decent touch of fuzz. would it be as simple as tacking on the mini-mixer circuit on the end of the bass fuzz, then putting a pot in between (oversimplification i know, but i'm merely talking concept here). What do you guys think?

[Arn C.]

I would use the splitter blend circuit and your bazz fuzz circuit and together you can run your clean signal through with the knob turned one way or fuzz with knob turned the other way or blend them!  Just incorporate all into one box!

Peace!
Arn C.

[Seljer]

http://seanm.ca/stomp/bblender.html and http://www.runoffgroove.com/splitter-blend.html

the minimalist version would be the least you'd need to, you just need a buffer for the clean signal there, in whatever format you fancy (opamp/BJT/JFET... )

[Barcode80]

okay, i'm a bit confused by those circuits. would the green send be the input for the clean and the red the input for fuzz? where would the unified signal come out? i'm not thinking this would work like a loop, but maybe i'm wrong. i was thinking of using this layout of torchy's:

http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album28/Mixer

leaving off channels 3 and 4, hard wiring the bazz fuzz circuit output to channel 1, and a clean buffered circuit into 2. then i have individual knobs to adjust the level of wet and the level of dry. i'm intrigued by the splitter bender, but can you give me some more input as to how it works and such?

[Barcode80]

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[Barcode80]

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[Meanderthal]

 The splitter blender is just a couple buffers with a mixer, some filtering, and an inverter on one side...just in case. Very simple. I'm afraid I'm confused by the green and red... I don't know what you mean.

You could do what you mentioned, would work just fine.

Here's an idea I had along those lines, but instead of clean you blend it with a bass boost. This idea could probably be simplified.

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k99/jprak1/bassdist1.jpg

You might also want to check out the controfuzz- a distortion with a clean blend, no front side buffer. very simple also, works good on bass. Kind of like the minimalist blender.

http://www.diystompboxes.com/pedals/schems/CONTROFZ.GIF

[Barcode80]

the splitter bender has a "send" and "return" and has 2 of each. in the schemo linked above they are marked "green send," "red send," "green return," and "red return."

[Meanderthal]

 OHHH, I see it now... the green is for the "distortion" side,(because it has the inverter) the red for "clean".  Or anything else you want to run paralell, really.

[Barcode80]

so i would run the green send to the fuzz input, the fuzz output to the green return, and do the same with the clean signal on the red side, right?

[Meanderthal]

 You got it! The inverting switch is there just in case you have an effect with an inverting output, so you can avoid phase cancellation. I believe the Bazz Fuss is non-inverting, so you could in this case just duplicate the 'red' output buffer for the 'green' side and exclude a bunch of parts you won't be using anyway.

[Barcode80]

i think it's coming together in my head now. i think i'm going to like this splitterbend circuit. lots of possibilities.