When I woke up this morning, turned it on, hadn't moved it, squealed with crazy feedback oscillation. I played it before I went to bed last night. One for boosting the V8161, one as a standalone sound, same as the Orange Sunshine. But it's also sort of useless volume wise as anything but a recording device.īut a switch with a 47 ohm resistor on one pole and a 470 on the other would give this 'vintage' and 'modern' modes. Because the stock output is the PERFECT thing to push the second stage into what my wife called a 'murder hornet' sound. So, after looking that up, I've got that nagging feeling telling me to leave well enough alone. Which is probably why I don't read about a volume drop with the OS. Okay, so, I (admittedly, half-distracted), looked up an Orange Sunshine schematic and it looks like the only differing value is that there's a 470 ohm resistor in the OS that's only 47 ohm in the original's schematic. Just a relatively unique fuzz and a lot of fun! It's a gnarly, no knob wonder that's one of my favorite fuzzes. IIRC, the Vintage Technologies Orange Sunshine fuzz is based on the Vox Distortion Booster but I never looked into which circuit version. Will report back.Īnybody else want to weigh in on this trio of '60s Vox fuzz devices? I'm done for the day, but the schematic I found for the V8162 is positive ground, so I'm going to have to sniff around some more on that one. If I'm going to build a 2-transistor germanium Vox anything, it's going to be a Tone Bender. I hear the V816 briefly came in a germanium model that was based on the FZ-1, but that's outside my scope for the moment. With a 150R in there, it's the Vox-y fuzz you're looking for. There's an error in the V8161 schematic, apparently, where the resistor marked 150K is supposed to actually be 150R. Both definitely got me into Spacemen 3 territory when I put it through some reverb and played 'Rollercoaster'. I can't put my finger on why, but I like it more. I mean, both fairly straightforward silicon fuzz, but the V8161 had more density and snarl, felt a little less polite. So, I tried making them my first 'not following someone else's layout' breadboard project, and can report they DO sound different. I don't know much, but I knew enough to notice some significantly different values between them. Newly learned schematic baby steps had me looking at the paperwork for the 'straight-line' V816, the 'T-shaped' V8161 with a volume knob, and the V8162, a boxier model with both a volume and fuzz control. Colorsound) got me looking into the Vox Distortion Booster plugins after pointed me toward that Italian Vox/Jen silicon family. My quest for a bargain-basement entry into the Tone Bender and Vox fuzz families (incl. After learning the Fuzz Face fundamentals, I'm looking at other 2-transistor fuzz variants in that family. So, in a recent thread, some kind fellow forumites sent me down the Vox fuzz rabbit hole.

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