Sagittarius pedals 1970 Fuzz Face. Hand built in the USA by Sag. Made with vintage new old stock (NOS) components. The ultimate Dallas Arbiter FuzzFace
This is a vintage new old stock component build. (Not a kit) a complete ready to play pedal. The same components found in a vintage Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face. With rare UK made Erie resistors as found in the late 1969 and 1970 units! Each pedal is Hand built, signed, and 100% satisfaction guaranteed
New old stock BC108 gold leg transistors! The transistors are selected for ultimate hfe gain in this circuit. And all resistors are tuned to the specific transistor Beta in this particular pedal! The transistors are sourced from Small Bear.
Stunning copper crinkle enclosure with Oxblood colored knobs
Each pedal is biased. And has an external bias Control. For standard (optimal) bias, line up the knob pointer with the marking dot on the enclosure. Use this as a starting point for tone. Extreme setting will get nice gating and Velcro rip tones!
The Dallas arbiter sounds best with the volume and fuzz controls maxed out. Use your guitar volume control To clean up when needed
Parts and components are individually selected and tested. Components include:
NOS Mullard tropical fish capacitor 10nf
NOS Philips blue electrolytic capacitors
Pots are 6.35mm fat shaft Alpha brand.
Lumberg premium audio jacks
All wire is Belden brand military-spec silver plated copper stranded for cleanest true-bypass signal, and high bandwidth
Heavy duty battery snap with strain relief
The PCB is supported and grounded with solid metal, new old stock, RAF military-spec aircraft standoffs
Powers with any standard guitar pedal power supply or the included 9-volt battery
Issue two of the Printed Circuit Board (PCB)
About the PCB: This PCB is a recreation of the iss. 2 circuit board found in classic Fuzz Face pedals. The iss. 2 version uses NPN silicon transistors. When drawing the layout, multiple originals were closely referenced to ensure a proper match and fit. The copper traces have a surface treatment providing protection from corrosion. This classic board fits the mounting holes on both original and reproduction Fuzz Face enclosures.
Dimensions: 4.72” long X 3.70” wide X 1.30” high
In addition to the countless positive feedback remarks, here is a review of one of my 1970 fuzz face pedals by Jon B of Canada:
This fuzz pedal is the best sounding fuzz ive ever heard im my life! It floors me!. I brought it to my local music shop. The manager there is in a huge band that tours all over the UK, US, and canada. And he tried it. He ended up playing it for over an hour and was begging me to sell it to him, or at least let him borrow it for a few shows and an album he’s recording. lmfao. This thing is legit. We put it up against all the dunlop reissues, and all the other brand fuzzface pedals he had in his shop and this thing seriously smokes them all out of the water. I wouldn’t change it for anything. It does the crazy harmonic transient thing at the end of the note that makes it sound like i have a leslie rotating speaker and a Wah on it! And it cleans up so flipping nice! It does Jimi, band of gypsies like nobodys business! Im still in disbelief of the tone the pedal produces!
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