Music Box (prototype Bonker)

Music Box : A bass distortion/fuzz pedal

Features

• Full frequency (no bass loss)
• Buckets of "fat bottom fuzz"
• Buffered wet-dry mix control to fine-tune definition
• Variable amount of fuzz (from "some" to "loads")
• "Musical" bass feedback possible at extreme settings
• Treble cut to tame feedback
• Hand wired
• Hand drilled
• Hand painted
• True bypass
• Yellow LED
• More output volume than the standard Bonker, as per customers request
  

Notes
Case prepainted glossy black
No decals - hand painted lettering
No PCB - stripboard used instead
Incorporates the Buff'n'Blend circuit designed by Joel Purkiss
Based loosely on the Skronker design, with several changes
"Music Box" was the first of this kind, built especially by request and named for the customer. Future builds of this pedal will be branded as the "Bonker" - the bass Skronker.

Photos


Alternate top view
Top view with light
Rear view
Rear view angle

Samples
All samples feature clean bass sound before the effect is engaged. The first sound features the treble switch turned "on", followed by the treble switched "off". Samples were recorded with humbuckers and a pick direct to PC from the pedal.

Maximum fuzz
Minimum fuzz
Balanced fuzz with some dry signal blended
Blend - from dry to wet and back again