I bought a box of cancer on the Internet

Now my guitar playing will cause actual reproductive harm. Eat your heart out, Iggy Pop.


https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/

It uses GreenEdge:
Harman is pioneering a new concept in energy efficient audio and infotainment design called GreenEdge. Harman GreenEdge products and systems combine new environmentally friendly design with dramatic energy savings, without compromising the excellent performance for which Harman products are known.

Environmentally friendly cancer! The best kind! 

Been a long time since I did the stroll - Baldwin-Burns Buzz Around.

"The best fuzz-box to use is a Burn's Buzz-around which they discontinued making in England about six years ago." - Robert Fripp.
I haven't built a fuzzbox in 10 years, so here we go, 2 RCA trannies and a USAF tranny from Small Bear Electronics. I used the "compact" perfboard layout which is too compact really.
I have no 100k pots for the tone and gain knobs, I was pretty sure I had.
It does indeed do the Frippotronics infinite sustain thing, I have the fuzz preset on max and the tone on halfway. I could put it in a small box or a bigger box with bias controls. The USAF tranny needs to be leaky to self-bias, you could add a resistor to simulate leakage.
Work in progress, I will record a Frankotronics clip when it is finished, I need to order the 100k pots.
A useful mod would be a switch to disconnect the 4.7u cap in parallel with the 3k3 resistor to reduce the gain.

Ohhh, drug references...


Strange to go back ten years. But, still alive and well.