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So the Scott Fuzz is taking a bit longer to work out. But it'll be done (at some point in the future, school is taking priority lately)

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At work: The Buttronix SCOTT FUZZ

I'm coming close to finishing up the design for our flagship fuzz, the SCOTT FUZZ. The Scott Fuzz is based off of an old Silicon Fuzz Face from the early 70's, but with tons of options, such as MAN mode, which adds a ton of low end to the pedal. MYTH mode turns the SCOTT FUZZ into an oscillating crazy beast controlled by the BALLS knob. The BEARD and BOOZE knobs control the pedals gain and output.

Rack Mounted Vaporizer

WHY DIDN'T WE THINK OF THIS.

not that I smoke marjuana, but this is too good to be true.

Fucking plane internet

En route to Olympia via Seattle via Las Vegas by airplane...

Had a nice two week vacation to Zion Nat'l park. Lots of sun, rocks, walks, dogs, etc.

Chung Antique's tour should wind up soon and I'll get a chance to check out how Mike B's custom Buttfuzz held up to the rigors of the road. Hopefully with his feedback I'll be able to have a few ideas on how to improve it. I'm already thinking a deep switch is going into the next one.

Ordered parts for a new pedal I'm working on. It'll be based off of the classic Silicon Fuzz Face with a lot more tweakability: switchable input caps and transistors, voltage starve, etc.

Anyways, back to work in a few days.

Hope the Chung tour kicked ass.

-E

Music from Buttronix HQ, the Blue House!

Last night, a veritable Bass-Guitar shredfest happened at Buttronix HQ. (-O-) [Ti Fighter] came all the way from Chicago to celebrate the beginning of tolerable weather in Olympia. Naturally the attendees were provided with sub-par weather.

Anyways, first up was our good friends and Buttronix users Chung Antique. Olympia's reigning Math Rock fiends kicked off the night with 32 minutes of face melting music.

Chung Antique- March 11, 2011- Blue House, Olympia Washington

Next up were (-O-). Made up of two bassists and one rock-solid drummer, (-O-) definitely brought the rock. It was overheard that it sounded like there were two Bob Weston's lurking in the basement.

(-O-)- March 11, 2011- Blue House, Olympia Washington

So its not the greatest fidelity, but what can you do with a cheap Alesis mixer and 2 SM58's and 2 Behringer condensors.

This is our current home on the web.

This is a two-channel preamp-booster pedal built for Ryan Slagle of Raleigh, NC's Tunnels Under the Citadel. It features two identical circuits designed to boost the volume of the guitar without adding any extra distortion. Each circuit has been voiced to add a certain amount of "warmth" to the input signal. The toggle switch in the upper right corner controls whether the two circuits are cascaded into each other or routed to separate outputs. A similar circuit voiced for more bass is built into Mike B's (Chung Antique) Fuzz/Preamp pedal. Cool, huh?