Not including my personal one, there are only two of these.
I have been overly concerned with how things respond to bass in most of my pedals. With this, I wanted to do the opposite and for the first time, chose to do something which actually rolled off some bass.
The result was that there was less boominess! Lower frequencies still come through, but their overtones get accentuated more than the fundamental tone, and that’s actually pretty cool. Bass guitar still works well with it, too.
At that point, it still sounded a little lopsided - rolling off some bass made it feel like there was too much in the higher frequencies. So I rolled those off as well, and the result was a fuzz with a bit of a mid-hump.
To really depart from other designs, I took the clipping diodes out. This not only allows the effect to get louder, but it also means it isn’t always clipping. You’ve got to turn the gain up some to get the transistor cooking - and that cooked transistor is all you’re really hearing.
To my ears, there’s just something sandy about it.
I built this with the intention of it being a standard part of my lineup, but I was also in the middle of moving to Australia.
Now that I’m here and have tools and everything again, I’m not so sure I want to continue any of my old designs and may take this as an opportunity to come up with an all-new lineup.
But it is hard to just build two of an effect and call it done. So if you are interested in one, contact me and I’ll see if we can work something out.