In 2018 I released the Fuzzboy v1 - in the black box with the spaceman on the front and 4 knobs. It sold pretty quickly and there's Fuzzboys in about 20 countries around the world which blows my mind when I think about it seeing as how I'm just a naked fat guy on the internet.
After listening to player feedback and some painstaking R&D here's the Fuzzboy v2. The spacemen and saucer are still there of course, but the upgrades include:
- better power filtering, so it runs quiet
- internal trimpot for set and forget LED brightness
- hand-matched transistors
- a starve control that's optimised for all pickups
- a mids control to add/reduce mid frequencies
- a dedicated fuzz control rather than relying on the guitar's volume control
- hardcore bare metal enclosure
- gloss finish
It's a cool thing, folks. I even added a Southern Cross constellation to the artwork as a little easter egg, it's just by the spaceman.
It looks a little like this:
PCBs:
The LED brightness trimpot. Goes from eyeball melting to quite pleasant:
Testing. Random LED colours:
I'll get a video demo together when Nik does one
