OctoFuzz

Behold, the Madbean Retrograde which is inturn based on the Tycobrahe Octavia. I took the etchable layout and populated this beast in under an hour, ran in the room and started tearing the paint off the walls with this pedal. This is a thick octave fuzz pedal with a switch that can remove the octave down and leave you with a very usable fuzz only effect. This pedal uses a small 42TM022 transformer that generates the octave portion of the fuzz. This is the first time I have ever worked with a transformer. As far as transistors, I used some old NPNs I had that were unmarked but sounded great in this circuit. They are the little round top button transistors.

I etched the enclosure with some lineart of a few octopus’ that my wife picked out for me.

Gut punch: