Man.  MAN!  It has been waaay too long since I had a good post.  I’m gonna try to start posting more stuff here, but its currently summer and way too hot to build anything so I may run thin on stuff to gab about.  I guess I can just start telling jokes then.

First order of note is that there are now some incredible sound clips for the production Balls units on their respective pages.  These were all recorded by Kelly Doyle (hired-gun shred beast) in Houston Texas and I couldn’t be happier with how rad they sound.  Give em a listen!

Now for some FUZZZZ.  The O.G. fuzz face was an incredible pedal but even more incredible is the circuit.  It is seemingly INFINITELY screw-with-able.  You can tweak that thing for days and get new sounds out of it.  People started doing it in the mid-sixties and still do it to this day.  With that spirit in mind I made up this trio of one-knob-fuzzes built around that circuit and dammit if they don’t sound killer.

The first one (blue) was tuned a bit brighter than the standard fuzz face with some added filtering to smooth out the roughness in the fuzz.  Super awesome bright, ringy, sustain chopper!  The second (grey) is flavored after the Italy-produced Vox Tone Benders of the mid sixties.  Its similar to the blue one but more saturated and just JUICIER.  Ugh…it makes me sick even thinking about how good that one sounds.  I think that one is gonna be a production unit soon.  The third (green) drank some weird booze and things got dark.  It has been tuned down to the thick and bassy side and sounds downright evil.  Perfect tool for the sludgehead that lives in all of us.  Each one of these uses a silicon BC108/BC109 transistor pair and has been topped off which a nice little chicken-head knob.