R2R Electric Time-O-Lite Industrial Timer Fuzz #70

The Time-O-Lite Industrial Timer Fuzz pictured in this listing, is the one you will receive. Each one is unique and has aged in varying degrees.  Take a look at all the listings to find the one you like best!

The Time-O-Lite Industrial Timer Fuzz are the product of a long-time collaboration between Waterslide Guitars and R2R Electric. 

We worked on these for over two years and are very proud to finally make these special fuzz pedals available again. The process of converting these old darkroom timers into a pedal was not an easy task. We spend a long time figuring out how to convert the existing controls and not just use new knobs. Also making the concentric controls work with those converted control knobs was quite process too. But we managed it and each Fuzz uses vintage 1960's - 1980's CTS potentiometers. It's the culmination of a lot of hard work and we sincerely hope you enjoy playing these pedals, as much as we loved connecting and building them!

The Time-O-Lite is a classic two transistor germanium fuzz circuit.  They will ship tuned to vintage Fuzz Face specs, but there is an internal trimpot to adjust the bias of the fuzz.  It will go from gated and spitty, to a large open fuzz tone depending on the settings of the trimpot. 

The "Volume" & "Fuzz" controls feature a concentric potentiometer with the "Volume" control being the lower larger pointer and the "Fuzz" is controlled by the upper small red pointer knob.

This Time-O-Lite Fuzz features - 

+ Fuzz Face replica pcb

+ Hand selected pair NOS Mullard UK OC42 germanium transistors

+ 1967 CTS 500k & 1983 CTS 1k concentric potentiometer 

+ NOS ROE 2.2uf & 22uf capacitors

+ 1960's Sprague Tan Beauty or KY409 PIO capacitor 

+ NOS Allen-Bradley carbon comp resistors

+ True Bypass switching

+ On/Off jewel light indicator 

Internally there are two trimpots that are color coded "Red" and “White”. It needs to be set exactly where it is, so unless you're proficient with a multimeter and are familiar with biasing a Fuzz Face, please do not turn the red trimpot. 

The White trimpot sets the bias for Q2 and can be set anywhere. You can tune it by ear, or use a multimeter to set your favorite Q2 collector voltage 

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*These pedals are powered by 9v battery (included) or by a standard negative center 9v dc power supply. It will need an isolated dc power supply and can not be run on a "daisy chain" off of a single 9v "wall wart". Either it's own dedicated One Spot or a high quality pedal power brick.*

**These pedals are true to the vintage circuit which does not get along with buffers ore buffered bypass pedals going into the input.  Please remember when setting up your rig, that only true bypass pedal can go before this fuzz pedal in your signal chain** 

Each of my pedals are made with high quality vintage components, either NOS (New Old Stock) or pulled from vintage audio equipment.  

Each component is tested and matched to each pedal for optimum tone.  

I back each pedal with a lifetime warranty so if it ever stops working, send it back and I’ll repair it at no charge (aside from intentional damage)

Every pedal is hand built in Los Angeles, CA