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get_with_it wrote:Last sale at Macaris this evening was a Sola DAM Fuzz Box + a Colorsound Tremolo . I have to say it was one of the most enjoyable demos I have ever done . Les Paul Custom - through the one knobber then adding the Dick Denney tremolo THEN the customer said the magic words ' can I hear them with P90s '

get_with_it wrote: I have a strange feeling that I'm going to be told to change the graphics on our tremolo ????

Electric Warrior wrote:It's a clean machine! The wavy version of the Tremolo logo looks so good

get_with_it wrote: I have a strange feeling that I'm going to be told to change the graphics on our tremolo ????

If you build it, they will come.


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still looking for a good pic of an even older one to work from... I've got one, but I could do better with a decent pic. Anyone have one? Needs to look like this:

get_with_it wrote: I have got to say this has got to be one of my favourite Colorsound products ever - I just plug it in and I'm there , back at Dick's bungalow - amazed at this tiny circuit and it's total genius . The pedal has one knob !!! And I just dont find myself thinking ' oh i wish there was a tone control ' - that dosen't happen - I just play . . and love it !

The Captain wrote:

modeerf wrote:Its almost like the only fuzz you would ever need...And it does that with one knob!

Dig it. Dick's design is pure genius. I can get lost in this box for hours, cuts right down the middle, a little of everything almost.

Happy Anniversary Fuzz Box!

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"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."

Right on! Viva la Dick Denney!

Hot damn! It's been 8 years since we last did these. You feeling old yet? The art of simplicity manifest inside a big blue box. The Colorsound Dick Denney Fuzz Box - still one of my all time favourite fuzz producing devices that earns extra Brownie points for the laughably simple, and yet very smart, layout and construction techniques. Hit It!

Before we begin, and In case you forget what it sounds like. Refresh your senses with Philip's outstandingly marvellous sound nugget.



Chewy, tight and controlled with mouth watering goodness. These things should have been sprayed brown with word 'Toffee' screen printed on the top...or maybe not. A most excellent mesters fuzz box for when the job needs to be done.

A few teeny tiny changes from the 2012 batch. A 470k linear taper pot replaces the 470k logarithmic taper pot, with which you get little more of an even spread of volume boost rather than it being all jammed up at the extremity of the turn. The maximum output volume and tonality is unchanged.
Carbon film resistors replace the previously used carbon composition types. Just a nod and a wink to Dick's original units, nothing technical to it.
A CV10806 (a military spec version of the BC109) replaces the standard BC109 type. This switch-over gives you little less background noise, and to be quite honest not something you'd likely notice unless you are playing at high volume levels being that it is a well executed circuit.
The BC108 device, as with the CV10806, is an NOS part and the brand of which my vary. Some are RS branded, others STC, and some are Texas Instruments types. And so forth. Regardless, the gain selection is all the same.

There are 50 pieces in the project in total (numbered #050 - #099) with all units being assembled by Daniel Lee Tunstill. All set-up procedures, transistor selection, final testing and inspection are carried out by myself.

FYI - I recently purchased a vintage Florida postcard that features the launch of a Space Shuttle along with an apt descriptive for this pedal. I also purchased another because I am a fan of plastic fruit. Yup.

nice one Captain !!!

one of my all time favourite circuits

Love that sound clip man. Nice groove