Minotaur Sonic Terrors Evil Eye MkIII

Tone Bender MKII Professional Silicon Fuzz BC109C

The Evil Eye MKIII comes to replace and upgrade our MKII version of the pedal. It is based on the Sola Sound Tone Bender Professional MKII fuzz.

The Tone Bender of course needs no introductions. It’s the iconic 1966 Fuzz used by Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck amongst countless others.

What the Evil Eye MKIII offers, is a tone extremely close to the original, but produced by silicon transistors. It produces a thick, saturated, full fuzz tone with sustain that goes on forever and rich low end. The attack is sharp, and the distortion is rich and meaty. Making it sound so close to the original though wasn’t an easy feat. After some tricky biasing and detailing, the transistors of choice are three BC109C transistors. I found that in this particular design, they produce a more “organic” open tone, compared to other silicon transistors I tried (and they were many), having some extra warmth in order to simulate the germanium transistors tone.

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