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Mike, As a pedal designer, you might just be the King of Crackle & Sizzle.⚡️ Keep it gritty and carry on Sir, if you ever get out to Vegas the drinks are on me. Cheers!

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I think you used germanium with big leakage, that's why fuzzpot working bad or gain max alltime. So i use bias trimpot 20k at the collector of Q2 to tune right working of fuzzpot ! Q2 better to take witn low leakage. Tonestack from mk3 - good idea. I usualy used filter on inpet between 1n & 10n like Kilimanjaro mk1 scheme. Q2 & Q3 do all that huge sound, that harmonics.

Very cool! I've experimented with making some TB mk2 with a switch to remove the first transistor stage/buffer thereby making the mk2 a mk1.5 but I could never get a good sound that worked with both settings and so I'd end up just keeping things set to the mk2 mode but this guy sounds fantastic!

Rippin the tele first thing this morning, sounds awesome Mike. I like the 1.5 circuit as well, very versatile. You out did yourself with the Lineage series, it's got something for everyone. Keep'um coming, loving content and the pedals!

Sounds lazing Mike ! ⚡️

Nice! The pedal I sometimes place before my Seeker Bender MK1 is based on the Kay Fuzz. It gives me some mushy-ness and octave overtones, and then the MK1 imparts all of its oomf and punch. Both are fairly gated so it never spins out of control. Keep up the great demos!

Oh boy!! Pure perfection to my ears!

MkI into Super was evil, gotta try that

Eieeee holy smokes

Thank you! Very cool opportunity to understand a bit more about how these things operate. One thing worth mentioning is how great your MK1 pedals can stack with other fuzzes (or vice versa). I run a pretty aggressive octave fuzz into it sometimes, and setting the MK1 to gate at just the right place allows it to take a lot of rage on the front end without resulting in uncontrollable feedback the minute I stop playing.

* - Notes when pedal is played when amp is set to higher volume and breaking up. 16:34 - Noise Floor of Sola Mk1 16:45 - Noise Floor of System Mk 1 16:54 - Noise Floor of Descry 17:04 - Clean Tone 17:17 - Sola (demo 1) 17:30 - System (demo 1) 17:43 - Descry (demo 1) 17:59 - Quick sweep through the three (1) 18:19 - System (demo 2) 18:33 - Sola (demo 2) 19:06 - System (demo 3) 19:49 - Descry (demo 2) 20:54 - Quick sweep through the three (2) 21:32 - Descry (demo 3) 21:54 - System (demo 4) 22:12 - Descry (demo 4) 22:27 - Sola (demo 3) 22:53 - Dedcry (demo 5) 23:37 - * Sola (demo 4) 23:58 - * System (demo 5) 24:25 - * Descry (demo 6) 25:12 - * Sola (demo 5) 25:37 - * All three at the same time

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Thanks for sharing your knowledge. One of these days I’ll attempt to build a mkI, and I’ll definitely come back to this video…

Thank you very much for this! I think I'll keep my Descry, it can do the best of both worlds, absolutely.

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Oh! Your explanations of those 3 circuits are a mine of gold I must say! I never think the tonal palette of those first mk1 were so intense. Even their volume pot affect the tone(assez incroyable). Are they built with the same transistors? Even the Descry can be very similar if not completely the same regarding the tonal qualities and even the "artefacts" are present at the start of note's decay(Anthony Macari) in TPS episode. Very impressive video!

Pure gold

Thanks you Mike, What a great video to enjoy while having my morning coffee and noodling. Man they all sound so good! 🤘🏼🔥🤘🏼

Sounds great. Super useful and few know about them.

Great! System tuned?

Tonebenders are my favorite flavor of fuzz and this one sounds AMAZING. Don’t know how I’m just seeing it! Bravo 👏

Oh boy!

How much Chief?

The face sounds incredible, great clean up!

What transistors are used in this one? Sounds incredible

Oups... this gives me the answer of the question asked in the zonk/mk1 video you made.🤘

Nice sound both Zonk and MK1! Is it possible to tune them a bit less gated at full Attack? The gated effect could be ajustable at 50-75% on the Attack knob. Just asking otherwise, they sound fantastic to me!

Damn, this sounds so good

The Brit spec has that spitty chaotic mess that makes the original Zonks so amazing. Still waiting for someone to do a Shatterbox!

That sounds epic!

Triclops Fuzz Faces look rad.

This was super interesting. Love how both of them sound though.

Nice tones! Do you screen print your designs onto the enclosure?

I actually kinda like the standard one better. When I think Zonk, I think of a more pointy, gated tone vs a fuller, fatter one. I think the standard is closer to what I’d want out of a Zonk

Really nice job and demo ! For me the British one with the oc72 Is a little more fatter , but they sound With the same identity which is like you said , 5 % but influent percent !! Your quest for circuit and tone make me think that you give us your right knowledge of the sound , thank you

The British sounds a bit fatter, the standard cuts through more. Just a tweak of the EQ and they would sound the same. Don't know about the feel of course.

Une machine de guerre!!!! Wow!

Sounds phenomenal

That clean up!

Nice shirt! 😄

Yep, it’s a MK I.

the sound is brutal, great what kind of amp are you using?

Hey Mike. Sounds phenomenal as usual!

i need both of these easily the best mk1 and zonk on the market love from australia brother.

This is amazing! Thank you

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

I buy my CV7007`s from Rays-Tec here in the UK . He has got very popular for selling these , a really nice sounding germanium ....and for a very good price . By the way its really nice of you showing people how to build these sorts of pedals.

Very interesting video Thank you for sharing knowledge and your artistry work with us ! In your opinion which of your pedal will be close to a selmer buzz tone ? However I like the way you try to improve circuit and tone

hey, where are you based? do you do international shipping?