This Pedal is discontinued.
Modern take on the classic Germanium Tone Bender MK2 circuit
Taras Bulba is our take on the classic Germanium Tone Bender MK2 circuit. In addition to vintage fuzz, we put a bunch of modern features into this pedal: a switchable pickups simulator with a buffer that allows you to use the pedal with modern guitar pickups and place the effect everywhere in your pedalboard, external bias control, and hi-cut tone control. In that batch, I've used NOS Germanium transistors: MP20 (German, the 80s), P416B (Soviet, 70s).
Controls:
- Attack - gain control.
- Bias - varies 1st stage transistor biasing, modest clean-up gain.
- Hi-Cut - tone shaping that reduces high frequencies.
- Volume - effect output level.
- Mode toggle - switches between MK2 and MK1.5 circuits. Both have a very different characters; MK1.5 is more close to Fuzz Face.
- PU Sim toggle - adds/removes buffer with pickup simulator from the circuit; when switched off, you're getting classic effect sensitive to what is placed before the pedal.
- Impedance - works only with pickup sim enabled, controls the amount of the signal coming to the effect. Somehow similar to guitar volume control.
- PU Type toggle - works only with pickup sim enabled, switches between softer (more single-coils alike) and slightly heavier pickup types.
Power Supply: 9V DC adapter (Boss-style negative center) not included. No batteries. They are bad for the environment 🌲.
Current draw: 3.5 mA
Dimensions: 125B, 122mm x 66mm x 39.5mm
