Ahhh yet another old build.  I’ve really gotta start getting off my ass and building more shit so that I have new and interesting topics to talk about.  Anyway, this is a build that I did awhile ago for Mr. Ben Murphy (Bright Men of Learning, not enough other bands).  Ben came to me with a simple request: 

Can you make me a stupid pedal? Something farty? Maybe some sort of octave-fuzz or something? It should sound like something’s seriously wrong with it. Everything I own sounds too “nice”.

So after some messing with an initial prototype, i built this thing for him called the Benergy.  The original design is based off of some parts of the Mid-Fi Peace Gun circuit, with some tweaks here and there.  The sound is bright and fuzzy, kinda spittle-buzzy here and there, with an almost ring-modulator-like resonance.  Ben put it up next to some boutique Fulltone fuzzes and called the comparison “hilariously awesome“.  Controls are frequency and resonance, and the color scheme is white on white per request from the owner!