Eat Your Heart Out - multistage germanium fuzz by Analogwise Pedals

Description

Hello, thanks for stopping by.
You're looking at a hand-made fuzz pedal with unique tonal possibilities to offer. Here's "Eat Your Heart Out" in a nutshell:
- three germanium transistor gain stages;
- mid to high gain with very articulate grit to it;
- will work fine in any spot in your signal chain;
- handmade wooden enclosure;
- requires standard 9V power supply, can be powered with 12V;
- true bypass.
Here's a demo vid.
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Eat Your Heart Out
" is a result of many months of experimentation andtweaking. It was born out of the need to create a fuzz pedal that willretain some smoothness and clarity, but will have those mis-biasedovertones to it. Its final circuit took form together with a twincircuit in tow - the one found in "Eat Your Heart Out". Whenexperimenting, I came across two biasing patterns, or transistorarrangements - resulting in two kinds of tonal textures I liked best,but could not incorporate them into one circuit - with a switch tochoose between them. So I decided to make another pedal. A sibling. Bothpedals have that mis-biased nastiness in them. While "Eat Your HeartOut" offers smoother tone and a bit higher gain, "Dead Man Walking" hasmore grit, while being a mid-gain rather than a high-gain pedal. You canthink of "Eat Your Heart Out" as Ian Gillain, nailing that smooth,over-sustained "Child in Time" vocalisation. "Dead Man Walking" on theother hand, would be Tom Waits, with his worn-out voice, yelling hissongs into a microphone... through a megaphone.
Both pedals havebias controls that will let you adjust the grittiness of the fuzz."Texture" seems to be a better word here, since those tones are so thickthey're almost tangible.
Apart from that, the controls are prettystandard-issue. You've got volume which controls the output level ofyour signal, gain - which sets up how much your input signal will getfuzzed out, and tone - cutting high end and boosting bass when turned toone side, and vice-versa. Apart from that - there's the Fat Mod switch,which makes the pedal sound way boomier, with more low end beingintroduced into the circuitry. Some super cool sounds can be achievedwith bridge pickups, Fat Mod active and tone knob set a bit more intothe "warm" territory. But that's just one of the endless possibilitiesthese pedals offer, tone-wise. The Fat Mod makes the pedals usable withbass guitars, too.
Both pedals are built with three germaniumtransistor gain stages. I took those transistors out of a sealed boxmyself. They haven't seen daylight for the last 30 years. There issomething magical to it. And I think some of this magic has found itsway into those boxes.
In spite of the popular "germanium fuzz goesfirst in chain" rule, those pedals don't really care where you put them.They also don't mind other, buffered pedals in front of them. Bothpedals are also immune to temperature changes. I mean, if you take themout of schorching sun and put them into a freezer, you will probablynotice some change in the tone. In regular conditions, however, theanti-temperature-drift circuitry installed in both of them shouldprevent that from happening. The pedals take regular 9V power. If youwant more headroom and are willing to accept a little bit more noise,feel free to power it up with 12V.
The pedals are true bypass andship out of Poland - smack dab in the centre of Europe. Wrapped up safeand cozy. It should take them about two weeks to get into the U.S., and about 10 days to get to most European countries.
Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask me!Thanks for watching and have a great day! Or night!