(DISCONTINUED) Noise Space Audio Brass Fuzz Germanium (Maestro Brassmaster work-alike)

Please note that 20% of the proceeds of this sale will be donated in support of Come Back Alive in Ukraine.

Most likely this is the last few units for now as I don't have more of good transistors, that work well in this type of circuit (should be low noise and pretty high gain for great results).

In stock and ready for shipping.

About Brass Fuzz Germanium:

This is my take on an infamous and yet way too underrated Maestro Brassmaster octave up fuzz circuit.

But there a small yet huge (in terms of sound) difference - this version is built with germanium diodes and transistors in a dirty part of the pedal.

What so cool about Noise Space Audio Brass Fuzz Germanium:

1. Compact enclosure with top jacks.

2. Smooth response on all the knobs for easier adjustments of tone.

3. Matched NOS soviet germanium diodes.

4. Matched NOS UK germanium transistors.

5. More low-end on the clean path for better tone with bass.

Here is a basic description of the circuit:

First of all signal splits into two parts.

Clean path is a slightly lowpassed and boosted clean signal.

Dirty side is a high gain fuzz circuit that pushes full wave rectifier along with transformer for octave up effect.

After there goes two switched.

Harm is a selectable feedback path for extra tone options.

Brass selects between two different resonant peaks for a filter.

Then both path are mixed together back and boosted a bit more.

But what is the difference between silicon and germanium?

Germanium sounds a lot softer, fuller (less pushed mids), less synthy (much less compression and more organic sound) and rather more overdrivy.

Controls:

Clean - volume of slightly lowpassed clean signal

Dirty - volume of fuzz signal

Gain - gain of fuzz path, for bright harmonic overtones keep it as low as possible, for overcompressed synthy sound turn clockwise

Harm - feedback switch, used for tonal variations along with Brass switch

Brass - filter resonance peak.

Led is bright red.

Power supply is 9v dc center negative.

Each Noise Space Audio pedal is proudly built in Kyiv, Ukraine.