Devi Ever Hounds Tooth

 Haven't had a Fuzz Friday since March, so sneak one more into 2021 with the Devi Ever Hounds Tooth. It's essentially Devi's 05 clean boost into a Dark Boost with extra PNP transistors stacked onto the NPNs. 

Devi Ever Ruby

Here's another Devi circuit for Fuzz Friday–the Ruby. It's essentially 2 Electras (sans clipping diodes) stacked. In Devi's own words, "The Ruby is like a Tone Bender, but way classier and secretly more misogynistic."

Devi Ever Dark Boost

Haven't done a Devi circuit in a while, and I keep stumbling across them, so here's the Dark Boost. It's essentially an Electra circuit without the clipping diodes and a Pre-Gain control. Apparently works pretty well on bass too.

Devi Ever Ruiner

Another brutal fuzz machine from Devi, and sounds great on bass and guitar. Pretty straight forward design–two cascaded transistor amplifier stages with a pre-gain control (intensity) and standard volume control. Pots are board mounted and it shouldn't take all that long to throw together.

Devi Ever Vintage Fuzz Master

Here's a cool one from Devi Ever for Fuzz Friday. The Vintage Fuzz Master is only slightly different than the Soda Meiser and both can be built on the same board. The only difference is the orientation of the PNP 2N2907A transistor. I've also included 2 switches for the Chaos and Noise mods. If you don't want to include the switches, just jumper the switch pads.

Devi Ever Electric Brown

Here's a unique little circuit from Devi. Plenty of gain on tap to go from just a boost, to an overdrive, to fuzzy the more your turn up the volume control. The Pregain control acts more like a tone control, panning between 2 capacitors. The first transistor stage is kind of like an Electra Distortion, and then I don't quite understand the 2nd transistor, but it works and it sounds good.

Devi Ever Torn's Peaker

The Devi Ever Torn's Peaker is a versatile dirt box, ranging from smooth and crunchy at low gain settings, to thick distortion/fuzz tones as the texture control is increased. The Torn's Peaker is very close to a couple other Devi circuits (Aenima, US, and Never Drive) and it only takes a few modifications to get the Torn's Peaker to the other circuit specs. Here's the schematic from Freestompboxes.org showing the differences between the 4 circuits, and the modifications are listed in the layout image below.

Devi Ever Improbability Drive

The Improbability Drive is a knob-tweaker's dream–equal parts, overdrive, fuzz, and science experiement, and gets its name from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This one was a bit of a challenge (I even had to use a jumper. Gah!). B3ar over on FSB requested a layout with onboard pots and switches. Couldn't get the switches to fit, but they're only SPSTs so wiring those shouldn't be too much of a hardship. Onboard pots are mounted from the solder-side using right angle PCB mount pots. Should all fit in a 1590B.

Devi Ever Hyperion

This is a pretty cool distortion effect from Seattle based designer Devi Ever. In her own words:

The Hyperion is everything the Big Muff wishes it could be. It can cut through in a loud, live, band setting. It has a gorgeous sustain that full of harmonically rich tonal characteristics that doesn't require much tweaking of your amp, guitar, or pedal board to get just the right sound you are looking for.

If you want to make the Hyperion 2, simply use a B100k pot, connect the ground from the board to lug 2 and then ground lug 1. Be sure that no other ground connections are going to the board, or it won't work. This creates oscillation by limiting how much the effect is grounded.