slight mod of the Buzz Box fuzz
The original Buzz Box was designed by a guy called Hemmo, though I first came across it at the Runoffgroove site. It looked easy enough to try on breadboard quickly, so I went for it. Along the way, I tried a couple of little mods, here’s a schematic of what I came up with:
I went with the red LED simply because it was what I had on hand. I also tried adding a power starve pot, and although it did indeed change the sound, I didn’t feel it was a drastic enough change to be worth it. Others may not agree however, it’s worth trying for yourself.
Here is a recording of a triangle wave from an NE566 being processed with this circuit on a breadboard- first, the dry triangle wave is heard, then the effect. The Buzz Box controls are also swept, first the input drive, then the “fuzz” control, then different drive settings are tried while the fuzz control is swept:
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I’ll definitely be building this, I really like the nasty things it does.
