by
Droning Brightness
· Pennsylvania, United States
Again, I was never a believer in mojo, and to prove myself wrong I began to harvest germanium transistors from old radios. In this series of unique pedals, I wanted to use as much from the old radios, including their faceplates and enclosures to incorporate their classic design aesthetic.
Nobility Fuzz is a fuzz face designed to my personal taste. This fuzz offers highly dynamic response to the users playing style and rolling back the volume and tone on your guitar offers a wide range of saturation and cleans up nicely. Also just keep the gain at maximum because you should.
Classic feel and look using stock PNP germanium transistors harvested fresh from the Nobility transistor radio. Built with an internal bias control if the unit needs to be adjusted.
standard 9V DC operation.

It's a germanium fuzzface. All the things you hear about this circuit are true. It sounds way better if you plug your guitar in directly. If you roll your volume back a bit it gets clean. It's a bit finicky but it sounds amazing. It really does sound amazing. You have to turn the gain back about 5% from maximum or it gets super gated and sputtery. I once experimented with making pedals from salvaged parts. None came out this good. The enclosure is rad. The knobs are vintage. I'm super impressed with everything but the soldering and wiring, which, to be fair is hard with salvaged parts. But the guts are more tangled than my own and that makes me nervous so I'm giving it 4/5 stars.