This is a library of perfboard and single-sided PCB effect layouts for guitar and bass. I'm not an electrical engineer by any stretch of the imagination, just a DIY'er who likes drawing layouts. It is meant for the hobbyist (so commercial use of any of these layout is not allowed without permission) and as a way to give back to the online DIY community.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

AstroTone Fuzz/Sam Ash Fuzzz Boxx

Here's a quick one. Fairly simple silicon fuzz from the 60s. AstroTone marketed these under their own name, as well as making them for Sam Ash. I laid this one out so the board mounted pots are in a triangular layout. The Attack and Volume controls are mounted on the component side, while the Tone control is mounted on the solder side like this:

(photo credit: Fuzz Dog)



13 comments:

  1. no biggy, but a photo credit would be sweet, thanks. nice work by the way.

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  2. Is it verified? Mine build fried the volume knob.

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    1. Hasn't been verified yes. Did you try replacing the volume pot?

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    2. Yeah! It fried again. lol. so hasn't been?

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  3. I think there is a reissue schematic of this pedal using DS66 and 2n3565 transistor and the tone is 100k. I got the schematic from fuzzcentral. By the way thanks for the layout:)

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  4. Hi there!
    Where is located the transfer pdf?
    I couldn't find it

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    1. It's in the Misc folder. (You're not crazy btw, there wasn't one until like 2 min ago haha)

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    2. Thanks David...!
      I know my Chrome searcher didn't fail hahaha

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  5. Verified.
    Sounds good and cleans up well if you pick softly or roll back your guitar's volume.

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  6. I built it with the AnalogMan mods and it sounds great.

    Replace:
    - 1M resistors at collectors with 1M2
    - 1K8 at tone control with 470R
    - 47n caps next to Attack/Vol with 470n

    I had to add an empty row between pots and components to make the output cap fit under the volume pot.

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  8. Hey! What does the 1M resistor between attack lugs 1 and 3 do? I have been looking at a few layouts and some have one between 2 lugs of attack and some don't. Just curious to learn something. Thanks for all the cool layouts!

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