Pessimistic Fuzz

I was playing around with a few low part count fuzz pedals and found Marks vero layout of the Monolith Fuzz Oracle and the demos sounded awesome. I used the following transistors in my build.

Q1: AC152 Hfe 114
Q2: AC125 Hfe 306

I decided to go with a “darker” theme on this pedal due to the sounds this thing produces. It gets some great low end and a VERY usable tone knob.

Here is the etched enclosure.

Drilled the enclosure and hit it with some flat black rattle can. I then wet sanded with 1000 git.

Assembled and ready to melt faces.

Gut shot