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anders

Honey Special Fuzz

A crazy 13 (!)transistor fuzz/auto wha/phase thingy from the late 60's from Japan.
Kudos to Dino T for tracing it and Dirk Hendrick for the SCHEMATIC

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Hozy31

Re: Honey Special Fuzz

Thanks for the layout will give this a go. The LT44 only has 5 pins, do you know what changes to make to replace for the TDKs?

"Red velvet lines the black box"

anders

Re: Honey Special Fuzz

Well, it works both way around, the secondary sides faced to each other a wee bit better.
Here is the data sheet

Note that there is two types of LT44 tranformers, one with blue tape and one with yellow tape. I used blue tape in this build but I waiting for a couple of yellow ones too. Those are supposed to have slightly different specs.

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BetterOffShred

Re: Honey Special Fuzz

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Yeah this sounds good too. Just found Dinos video of it, I like the sounds for sure. I'll see about those transformers!
-Brett

Hozy31

Re: Honey Special Fuzz

Built this and its really good. Thanks again for the layout anders!

"Red velvet lines the black box"

BetterOffShred

Re: Honey Special Fuzz

In reply to this post by anders

The specs from a guy selling them on ebay indicate both yellow and blue have the 20k primary and that the yellow has lower DC resistances 480 vs 1080 ohms approximately. I'm probably just going to order the blue one for this project. It seems to be adequate. Thanks again for the project!
-Brett