RED FUZZ COMPLETE KIT

A complete kit for the famous Red Fuzz, a very nice distortion from one of the pioneers of DIY stompboxes on the internet. It's relatively easy to build, which makes it a good early project.

About the effect

The Red Fuzz is based on a schematic from Robin Tomtlund's Effects. Despite the name, it's really a distortion. It's similar in some ways to the DOD™ 250 Overdrive and has a Rat™-style tone control. Tobias Karlsson contributed sound samples, pinout and voltage diagrams, and a diode switching mod. In his samples, the LED-clipping version works as a semi-clean booster with the Intensity turned down, and the silicon-diode version is noisier with lower output.

What you get

• All the parts and materials you need to build one, including the ready-to-solder PCB (the "Distortion 2" board)
• 125B: a 125B enclosure drilled for this project (data sheet)
• 1590B: the smaller 1590B enclosure (data sheet)
• 1590BB: the larger 1590BB enclosure (data sheet)
• No Enclosure: everything except the enclosure, for builders who want to use their own box

General information about our kits.

Build resources

• Complete instructions for this kit
• Red Fuzz instructions, bill of materials, schematic and layout

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