For reference, the title is not about fruits, kittens, or apparel. It is instead about the couple of Kiss records when Peter Criss was secretly replaced by Anton Fig. Go figure.
These pedal circuits are nothing new to this blog, just cataloging some of my recent builds. They’ve all been posted here before in one form or another, so search them out if needed.
TS-808 Tube Screamer:
I realized that some previous posts might have come off like I was talking shit on the venerable old Big Muff, and thats just not true at all. Its such a widely used fuzz that sometimes people need alternatives, but its still one of my favorites and has been since I got my first one in 1997.
My first foray into the world of Big Muffs was the “russian green” muff produced by Sovtek, and it blew my mind. Years later and i’ve played or cloned every variation of the Big Muff and the russian green is still my favorite. This is a faithful reproduction of the russian green that was built for Evan Craig.
As soon as I was done building this one I was so stoked on how awesome it sounded that I immediately build another one on the premise that sooner or later someone would need one. A few weeks later my buddy Bryce (Colonel Records) picked it up as a Christmas gift for his brother, Aidan. Here it is, in slightly smaller packaging:
