recomendations for a pink floyd fuzz sound

[Sergio]

Hallo, we are getting closer to Xmas and I want to make a present to a friend, he loves pink floyd and he s starting to play electric guitar. Which of the projects here do you recomend for a small amp? I don`t mind if it is big muff or fuzz face style.
 Thanks in advance
  Sergio

[Marbles]

I haven't tried it myself, but have been hearing a lot of good things about the Mojo Hand Iron Bell fuzz...

[Alex]

Could even try the Skreddy Lunar Module Deluxe or Cornish G2.
Check Mark's layouts, descriptions and videos.

[Frank_NH]

Here you go - everything you ever wanted to know about David Gilmour's sound.

Gilmourish.com

For Fuzzes in particular...

Davied Gilmour Fuzz Buyer's Guide

"When David joined Pink Floyd in early 1968, guitarists had only a few pedals to choose from. The fuzz was a staple in most setups and like Jimi Hendrix, David also relied on the Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face for his overdrive and lead tones. In early 1971 he swapped the germanium transistor model, with the slightly more aggressive, and more reliable, silicon transistor model. The pedal was featured on classic songs like Echoes, Time and Money. In 1976, David replaced his old fuzz pedals with the Big Muff."

For your friend, I'd probably build him a Big Muff - lots of building options and mods available.

[JaviCAP]

Yeah,

If I'm not wrong, David has used a few noise effects, being the most reknowned ones: a Fuzz Face (both silicon and germanium versions), Big Muff (Civil War, Ram's Head and several tweaked by Peter Cornish clones) and for a short time, a Boss HM-2.

But, as usual, a pedal won't give you the fingers taste and technique of David, so.... choose whatever you want from the list :)

J.

[Silver Blues]

I recommend the Iron Bell. It's a great sounding and versatile Muff variant.

[rocket88]

I second the iron bell. Built it and love it.

[Muadzin]

Skreddy P19 perhaps?

[Sergio]

Thanks to everybody! I was taking a look at your recomended page, gilmourish and the ones  that I think could work better and that some of you have recomended are these,

Noise level: 8/10
In combo with boosters/overdrives: 5/10
With smaller amps/bedroom level: 9/10
Gilmour authentic tones: Animals/DG78/Wall/Final Cut/Delicate/PULSE/Gdansk

Electro Harmonix “ram’s head” Big Muff 1973
Noise level: N/A
In combo with boosters/overdrives: 10/10
With smaller amps/bedroom level: 8/10
Gilmour tones: Animals/DG78/Wall/Final Cut/Gdansk


Electro Harmonix “triangle” Big Muff 1970
Noise level: N/A
In combo with boosters/overdrives: 10/10
With smaller amps/bedroom level: 8/10
Gilmour tones: DG78/Wall/Final Cut/Gdansk

My question is, Iron Bell, why this one does not work as well as the others with boosters and Od's . Maybe Iron Bell has too much gain?
 Thank you all! As you see, I am concentrating first in the muff sound instead of the FFace

[Kost1978]

Hi Sergio,
I also built the IronBell, after building a Ram's Head.
I too play in a PF cover band, and I was trying to get something on my pedal board closer to what Gilmour uses (or used).
In my experience, at least with my rig, the IronBell doesn't need an overdrive to "shape" its sound, for me it sounds good as is.
On the other hand, the Ram's Head needs to be "tamed" by an overdrive to be less "aggressive" and more "round"...
Or at least that's what I'm doing in my current rig!

Next step for me will be building the Cornish ones, the G2 and SS2, I'm just courious to try them and "hear their magic"!

Anyway, as Frank said, gilmourish.com is a great reading for this kind of stuff!

Check the IronBell dedicated review:
http://www.gilmourish.com/?p=4144
As Bjorn says:
"The Iron Bell can be paired up with a booster but personally I think it sounds best alone, with perhaps only some modulation and delay. What I especially like about it, is its ability to maintain its sustain and attack even at the lowest gain settings. Increasing the volume, also enhances the compression and smoothness. The Iron Bell also works nicely on bedroom setups and low volume levels."

Paolo.

[Sergio]

Thank you all people! Marbles, Albru, Frank, Javi, Silver Rocket, Muadzin, Kost, Mark and Mirosol! For the help, comments and vero layout!-) Iron Bell was the choosen one, I have it all mounted in the box, I dont really use to box things, I have almost all of my builds in plastic boxes, and when I want to play them I connect them to test box.
The reason for that is that I am terrible at boxing them, electric part seems to be less hard for me.

I tried with this one in a 1590b and the potentiometer holes are not exactly simmetry, neither I see myself painting it with so little time, made me think of other possibilities, so, as being the guitar player a star wars fan, I decided to go the fuzz route,  I covered the 1590 in a furry fabric that looks like Chewbacca. What a "fixing" for crazy hole pots...

I have choosen a bright blue led, so it seems the wookie has open one when the muff is on... Effect is sounding and its great, good choice!  but I have problem with led and battery connection I wanted to add. Its not working and I have gone the usual way for the led and for the battery I went like that: battery positive to  the 3rd pin in the power adaptor. and battery negative to the common ground at the adapter and from that to input ring.

By the way, a tight build at least for me, I know Javi could make it a double big muff in a 1590b.. but I am still far from that! I`ll post picks when finished. Thank you

[rocket88]

That chewbacca pedal sounds awesome, but I don't think this is the fuzz you're looking for. But, more seriously I'm sure once you post pics of the board, wiring, and switch we can figure out the problem.

Also, I hope silver caught that now we are one person. Lol

[Silver Blues]

[alltrax74]

I built a fuzz face using the analogman sunface nkt 275 as a basis.
I had the time solo sound in mind and had to tweak  a few values (mainly in and output caps)
I used nos russian GT402 tranies with hfe 75 and 110
I'm very happy with the results.
Here are 2 soundclips :http://guitar-diy.jimdo.com/effets/r%C3%A9alisations/fuzz/