HANDMADE MUSICAL EFFECT PEDALS
FIX’D FUZZ
FDF-1
REFERENCE & OWNER’S MANUAL
ABOUT THE FIX’D FUZZ by Blackout Effectors
The FIX’D FUZZ is the hydra-headed dragon of fuzzes/boosts/overdrives.
All 4 stages of the circuit are bypassable by means of the 4 toggles, meaning you can add/remove from the
stack as your black heart desires. The objective in designing the FIX’D FUZZ was making the most versatile pedal
that my little brain could concoct in the smallest possible enclosure (125B) to preserve pedalboard real-estate.
the bloom (dark boost through light od)
Awakens the bloom knob. Leave all other toggles off and you have a
straight forward and somewhat dark boost/od to slay the front end of
your amp. Add the shade toggle and now you have a bit more gain and
some extreme tone control over the boost, taking it from dark/thick to
treble-y shards of cut.
fuz:1 (thique)
Fuz:1 is big, round and toneful - the more traditional sounding of the two
fuzzes (depending on internal trim pot settings). But that’s just on it’s
own. Add the bloom boost and the massivest just got massiver (my fav
setting). Roar. If you can’t nd a use for this one, you’re doing it wrong.
The internal trim pot is a gain control. I have it set just below the point
where excessive noise occurs when a fully-cranked bloom boost is added
to fuz:1. Crank the gain trim pot if you have no need for a mellower-type
fuzz and/or you want to use fuz:1 at it’s ballsyist and think stacking is for
suckers.
fuz:2 (fuc’d)
What happens when you throw a fuzz face at a brick wall? Yeah, I don’t
know either. Anyway, fuz:2 is broken in all the right ways. On it’s own it is
sputtery, squelchy, squealey, and octavey. Add a heaping helping of bloom
boost and now you’re getting into pseudo fuzz face-ish land where people
say “ish” after everything. Bloom boost > fuz:1 > fuz:2 > the shade will get
you evicted, but also make you very happy.
the shade (tone)
Invites the shade knob to the party. It’s a tone control with a stupidly
huge range. It provides many additional variations on the above, from
massively bassy to massively scooped to cut-your-head-off. It is
designed to give you the widest range of sounds, not subtle tweaks of
similar sounds. The shade interacts with each of the rst 3 stages in
unique ways. Also useful for tuning the oscillation squeal of certain
jacked-up fuz:2 settings.
the buzz (volume)
The master volume control that rules all beasts. Just like the shade it will
react differently with each combo of stages you try, especially fuz:2.
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While being truly electrifying, the FIX’D FUZZ does not consume
batteries, because:
1) they won’t t in it’s belly without making layout compromises and...
2) they are an antiquated, landll-bound plague on our environment.
SO TAKE NOTE: this runs on DC power supply only, via industry-
standard 2.1 mm power jack (boss style).
FUZ:1 - GAIN TRIMPOT
Use a small screwdriver or the
tip of a guitar pick to make adjusments to FUZ:1 gain.
The FIX’D FUZZ is true bypass by means of 3pdt footswitch.
At full gain FUZ:1 may oscillate
HIGHLOW
when combined with the BLOOM
boost AND the SHADE tone stage
simultaneously. To return the
FIX’D FUZZ to stock setting, turn
on BlOOM (full gain on knob), FUZ:1
and SHADE. Make small clockwise
adjustments to the trimpot until
FUZ:1 stops oscillating.
You can count on a couple of things from
Blackout Effectors:
Your FIX’D FUZZ being made by hand by me.
No invisible waiting lists.
Me xing your FIX’D FUZZ if something should go
haywire. READ: 2 YEAR WARRANTY For reasonable
wear/tear. Please don’t screw up the wiring!
This not being a clone, even when it borrows
fragments/concepts from several classic sources,
The FIX’D FUZZ is not a rehoused kit circuit/pcb.
The FIX’D FUZZ having more mileage of internal wiring
than you have intestines. Seriously, you’ll count more
than 2 dozen wires coming off the board alone.
Me answering your emails and generally trying to be
as helpful as I can.
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