Fjord Fuzz Odin - Modern FOXX Tone Machine Octave Fuzz Tones!

Description

For sale is a used Fjord Fuzz Odin octave fuzz pedal. The Odin is Fjord’s take on the popular Foxx Tone Machine octave fuzz from the 70’s. The Foxx was known for being a thick fuzz with a switchable octave up that was very prominent and cuts through any mix. The Odin takes this idea and simplifies down to one knob and two footswitches. One footswitch turns on the fuzz circuit, the other adds the octave up. The knob is a volume knob and  you can set the fuzz level with two internal trimmers that actually change the gain at two different stages of the circuit. It’s an amazing fuzz but I have to thin the herd so it needs a new home. Never any velcro on the back and ships USPS Priority Mail with its original box. No returns. Feel free to ask any questions before bidding and good luck! Make me an offer!
From Fjord Fuzz:
ODIN is back!
This time in my favorite format: simple yet powerful. Rightmost foot switch bypasses and leftmost foot switch toggles snappily between a beautiful, warm vintagey fuzztone and a brilliantly clear and cutting octave fuzz.
I spent a lot of time getting the octaves just right and that means you can use this thing for chord work, but also for really clear and glassy octave tones.
The octaveless circuit features internal trimmers to allow you to add or subtract gain at two different places in the circuit, giving you options if either a sweet, light gain overdrive or a very thick and heavy, doomy fuzz or anything in between. One shared volume control makes this the simplest, most flexible pedal on your board and the perfect live fuzz for pretty much anyone!
You know how some pedals seem to write riffs on their own? This is one of them. I put dozens of riffs into each one, by hand and I would suspect that you get a minimum of three half decent songs out of it.
I've tinkered with this circuit for years, but was actually first introduced to its ancestry by Ruban of Unknown Mortal Orchestra almost 10 years ago. He let me try this amazing fOXX Tone Machine he had built and I immediately knew how to get it even better. This is it. It's the only circuit I ever got right first try. I simply ditched the tone control and clipping stage and changed the output stage for a much louder one, identical to the first gain stage in EMBLA and that was really all I needed to do. You're left with a punchy, mid-focused, loud octave fuzz that sits exactly where you want it to.
Years later I discovered it works really well without the octaving too, and so I made it into this ever-expanding piece that grew way beyond its initial scope. This was a regrettable mistake.
ODIN is the one-eyed all-seeing god. The wise. The Wanderer. This pedal is the most powerful device you can have as a touring musician and its one-knob layout is an obvious allusion to the real life Odin. The simple layout calls for your own playing dynamics, volume knob control and musicianship to coax the sounds you want out of it, and that's how I think this thing works the best!
Useful specs:
Power with 9VDC, centre tip negative. Same as Boss Pedals. Easy.
Current draw is quite high as I'm using logic based relay switching.
Prior to mid May all ODINs shipped had a current consumption of a little less than 300mA with both switches engaged. In mid May I moved from Fujitsu Takamisawa relays to Omron relays. These do the exact same job, but draw much less current:
Idle: ~15mA
One foot switch engaged: ~70mA
Both foot switches engaged: ~120mA
ODIN uses an input stage that shares that sweet cleanup and loading as your Fuzz Face.
While usually I find that buffers are OK in front of ODIN, Wahs require a buffer between them and ODIN.
Some wireless receivers also mess with the input on ODIN, but who uses those in 2021?
For safe travelling, stick ODIN first in line. Your Wah sounds better this way anyway!