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Welcome to Hydrozeen Electronics. My name is Leroy. I have two passions in my life: Cars and Guitars. Until now, I have never been able to combine the two. Sure I could write music about cars like The Beach Boys and Dick Dale. Although I love those artists that was just not my kind of music. I have always been into heavy psychedelic music like Hendrix and Cream and The Doors. I have always been after sounds, tones and switching options that I just could not find in the store or buy over the counter. This lead me to start making my own switchers. It took some experimentation but I finally came up with the sound I was hearing in my head all these years. Now rather than put these circuits into some lame old plain jane project boxes like everyone else does. I decided to get creative and use what I had on hand. Being a car guy I had lots of old car parts at my disposal. This is how it started.  The first
thing I built was a looper pedal out of an old Ford Valve Cover. This was
born out of necessity. I had two fuzz pedals at the time a Big Muff and
Creepy Fingers Hybrid Fuzz and I wanted to be able to switch between them with
the touch of one button. There was not anything commercially available
out there to do what I wanted so I built my own.  After I got my Fuzz sounding the way I wanted. I wanted it to be in a casing that looked as girthy as it sounded. So I picked up an Old GMC pickup hubcap and went to work. I call it a "Fuzz Cap"™
If you have a Fuzz Face and a Wah Wah pedal you need one of these. Fuzz Face pedals have a very low input impedance, so low that most wah wah pedals do not interact very well with them. There is a misconception that the Germanium ones are the only ones to suffer from this problem and so called "proof" of that is that When Hendrix switched over to a Silicone transistor version of the Fuzz Face his wah worked fine. The Silicone Fuzz Face may have a tad more input impedance but not enough to get your wah to work. I believe that Roger Mayer (Hendrix's Pedal Wizard) built a buffer and installed it either in the Fuzz Face itself or in the Wah wah.
A few people are making buffers that go into your Wah pedal but they are all made using Jfets and do not give the Hendrix Mojo that a Bipolar Transistor will give you. This buffer also mates your Rotovibe to your Fuzz Face for nice Hendrix like tone Ala' "Woodstock" If you want authentic Hendrix Wah,Fuzz Face and Univibe Tone this is the pedal for you. $99.95 shipped in Lower 48 email me for a shipping quote outside of the USA.
It's all ready getting good reviews. "...Your pedal works great!" -Geoff Cincinnati OH |