Sailor's buzz - Buzzaround / germanium fuzz

(This pedal is made on request - so if you're interested, please let me know. Approx. build time is 2-3 weeks.)

Sailor's buzz is a classic Buzzaround germanium fuzz clone built with all OG spec and tagboard layout. This is one of my favourite ever fuzz pedals for it's distortion-quality attack, beautiful textured character and heavy, yet tight bass response, which provides both total vintage flavour and ability to fit modern heavy playing.

This unit spots pair of Mullard OC83 plus NKT MT57F transistors, Wima, Philips and CDE capacitors, carbon comp resistors, heavy duty European made hardware etc.
This series is tuned for high gain yet smooth attack, full body and lasting sustain without gating.

CONTROLS:
SUSTAIN - distortion (and bias) control
BALANCE - volume (and bias) control
TIMBRE - turn CCW to cut low end and output volume, turn CW for full range tone with huge amount of output volume

All control knobs are highly interactive thus providing many available sounds beyond simple 'dedicated' operation.

Sailor's buzz can be custom ordered with additional master volume or/and CHUG pot, which reduces bass and enhances midrange, which makes fuzz even more cutting-through with tight attack. This option will always need a couple weeks to fulfil, so contact for details (photo of black unit for reference)

This is battery only powered pedal, but can be custom ordered with DC socket (this requires using isolated power supply).