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I grew up on this magazine. I had all the 60's magazines which were a real hoot to read even by the 70's.

 

I found this one which has a Fuzz Box Project on page 34

You may want to look it over. I haven't seen this design around and it might yield some nice tones.

It has a gated attack so when you stop playing it stops amplifying which is a nice feature.

Some kit builder might want to try this one out and make them for sale.

 

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1972/Pop-1972-07.pdf

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Notice who the author is?

 

There's a much more advanced version of this in his "Electronic Projects for Musicians" book, I think it's called the "Ultra Fuzz" or something, but the principal is the same: an op-amp set up as a comparator to implement a square wave type fuzz.

 

I bet it sounds nasty, in a good way.

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I built that circuit back in the day. It is hard to control as the comparator switches on/off at the slightest signal. Almost no dynamic range to it.

 

As Mr.Grumpy said, the Ultra Fuzz is a more developed version, but it has some of the same problems.

 

regards, Jack

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