Orbiter Fuzz Face (Circle Electric)

The Orbiter is a recreation of the 1966 Arbiter Fuzz Face. A fat, creamy, and harmonically rich classic fuzz tone famous for its versatility and impeccable clean up. Although it’s circuit is nearly identical to the Tone Bender MKI.V it was based on, it’s altered bias point and larger 500k volume pot lend to it a much fatter and smoother distortion with a more refined and delicate attack. Blue Cheer’s “Summertime Blues” is a prime example of what this bad boy is capable of.

What’s Inside:

• Built on a Arbiter Fuzz Face replica PCB
• Vintage new old stock and/or salvaged capacitors intentionally selected for quality and tone
• Vintage new old stock and/or salvaged carbon comp resistors hand selected for performance and aesthetic quality from a mix of vintage Allen-Bradley, Piher, Iskra, and others.
• 2 carefully matched vintage germanium transistors. Transistors are hand selected by me through a rigorous tuning process. Transistors are chosen based on how they perform in the circuit. I tune all my pedals with integrity to be as close to the originals as possible. I don’t add any modern tweaks to the circuit.
• A signal path wired up in the same layout as the original units.
• High quality hardware including full size alpha pots and Cliff UK jacks.
• Housed in a hand painted Hammond 125B diecast aluminum enclosure (4.8x2.6x1.55).
• Indicator LED
• powered via 9v battery or standard 9v DC power adapter (**ISOLATED ONLY***)
• Metal Circle Electric Co. name plate
• Bakelite knobs.

** I tune all my pedals with integrity to be as close to the originals as possible. I don’t add any modern tweaks or “improvements” to the circuit.