Early fuzz boxes were designed to emulate the sounds of the saxophone.
The Zippy will allow you to channel your inner Coltrane with very reedy fuzz tones. Saxy and sexy.
At lower settings a nice musical razor blade fuzz sizzle.
Turn it up and it becomes an increasingly sharper toothed saw blade fuzz. It snarls. It spits. It goes from fat and thick to thin and cutting without losing it's signature top end sizzle and low end rumble.
The body control (bass cut) makes it easy to dial in just the right amount of beef. Zipper fuzz tones bloom and softly decay.
Is that the correct transistor part code? MPSA6513 or is it MPS6513?. Any substitutes ?.
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Good catch–it is MPS6513. For subs... MPSA06s or 2N2369s would work well. Really anything with lower hFE. Even 2N3904s.
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DeleteWhere can I find a schematic to this one, my usual googling is failing me...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pedalpcb.com/docs/Zipper.pdf
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DeleteDoes the distance between the components matter and how the layout is composed? For example can I route the ground path any way I want or does it have to be as on the layout? And also the order of the components? I tend to route the pcb different than on your layouts to save space..and gets noise on every build.
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As long as everything connects to ground that needs to, it should be fine. If you're getting noise try spacing things out a bit more. Saving a few square mm of board space don't matter if it doesn't work right.
Deletei just built and tested it. it works perfectly so you can VERIFY IT.
ReplyDeletethe body control works in reverse of the video though. i just rotated mine 180 degrees and now it matches.
ReplyDeleteVery cool ! Thanks
ReplyDeleteUsed the christmas holidays to get my hands on this again. There's a layout available with some component changes over at tagboard which is supposed to reflect a more recent version of the zippy. I performed these changes to my zippy clone based on this layout and I indeed can confirm it sounds much more like the demo videos one can find out there. Both versions sound good, though, but are very different. Funnily the changes are more or less marginal: change the 1nF cap connected to lug 3 of the texture pot to 470pF. Change the only 1k resistor to 5k6 and change the pot values to: 100kA for volume, 250kB for texture and 100kB for fuzz. That's it. Have fun!
ReplyDeleteo, thanks, man! Used all 100 k pots, 470 (better, than 1n, more high), but 1 kom. Transistors used 2n2222, hfe 145, working good!
DeleteHi H.A., I noticed here: http://guitar-fx-layouts.42897.x6.nabble.com/Basic-Audio-Zippy-Fuzz-Verified-td40451.html that the maker of the second layout mentioned that Body 1 wasn't connected to anything on his original Zippy II. Did you modify how your pots were wired? Thanks!
DeleteI have burned Q1 2n2222, 7 changed it some what could find. It was bc 548c. Working better, i realy got tubes sound!
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