Uncle Ben’s Pedals Hunny Bee Drive 2023 - Mocha Brown/Yellow/Hunny Pot

The Hunny Bee Drive!

This is the Aion FX Procyon Natural Overdrive. It’s Aion’s DIY clone of the BJFe Honey Drive, an early release in the craze of “low gain overdrive“ back in the early 2000’s. This circuit was also released in partnership with BearFoot FX in 2011 as used prices skyrocketed in the late 00’s.

From the Aion FX build guide:

The Procyon has the same control layout as most overdrive or distortion effects:

• Drive controls the gain of the op-amp stage which increases the amount of signal clipping.

• Nature is a very unique tone control, doing two things at once. On one half of the rotation it affects the amount of bass and changes the gain structure of the circuit. On the other half of the rotation, it blends in a frequency bypass capacitor on the gain-recovery FET, causing the highs to be emphasized more. The end result is that you have more bass on one side and more treble on the other, but the manner of accomplishing this is very different than something like the Big Muff.

• Volume controls the overall output level of the effect.

This pedal was intended to be build with the capability of using a 9v battery, but I didn’t do that, so use a 9v power supply only!

Will come with a box!

Handmade in Eustis, FL.

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