Theres much debate about the best transistors to use in this circuit, but really it. For those of you who care about that sort of thing, the part number was 2sc828. Sep, 2017 general guitar gadgets has kits for replicas of these original unit guitar effects as well as pcbs and more see more ideas about guitar effects pedals, pedalboard and guitar. Chunky cheese distortion pedal official olc builder by gabepedals. Rands shin ei super fuzz fy 6, japan 1977 the fy 6 super fuzz is probably the most sought after japanese fuzz pedal of the 70s. Shin ei fuzz wah tr6 or fy6 original late 60s vintage fuzz wah. Its main circuitry is basically a clone of the vibebro and the original. This is the shin ei fy2, this is not the shin ei fy6 which is the rebranded super.
These did not have the tone circuit and therefore had a very loud output. These transistors began showing up in shin ei s pedals including the univibe, super fuzz and companion. Up for sale, a 1960s crown shin ei fy6 companion fuzz, perhaps better. Built to the original schematic and featuring rare vintage new old stock semiconductor parts. This later corporation would become famous as the oem maker of many of the. Shin ei also sold the fy 6 under its name, but also licensed it and many, many brands just changed the label on the top of the pedal, including companion. According to the schematic found in fsb, there are a couple of errors in layout perfboard not verfied. Vintage 1960s crown fuzz box univox shin ei companion fy6. Shinei fy2, maestro fz1, etc discussion in the stomp box started by soma89, may 11, 2009. This is a japanese shinei companion fy2 fuzz box dating from around 1970. The shinei companion fy2 is a discontinued fuzz box which was made by the shinei. At this time i do not support or update this version, its been almost a decade since i last played with it. Apart from the circuitry supporting the fv1 chip, you can see an input buffer and a mixing stage mixing the buffered direct signal with the output of the fv1.
All project were freely contributed by members and cannot be used for commerciall purposes without consent of the respective owners of the. Shin ei companion fuzz readyfortransfer printed circuit board. If youre more into the fy6 circuit, theres a pedal by reuss called the goo. You could probably find a small builder to build you one with custom artwork for. Available for almost a decade under different brand names its production numbers have presumably reached a couple of 10,000s. This is the shin ei fy2, this is not the shin ei fy 6 which is the rebranded super fuzz. The fuzz that came from this era was characterized by harsh, biting. Super fuzz univox shinei companion fuzz fy6 fuzz earplugs at the ready. It does both the shin ei companion fuzz sound fy2, as well as the univox shin. Shinei is the manufacturer of the original univibe and currently producing the vibebro, fy 6 super fuzz, fy2 fuzz and psychedelic machine. Shineis fy2 and later fy6 were housed in barebones, triangularshaped.
The hardware mixing works fine in most cases and avoids dedicating one of the 3 pots controlling the fv1 parameters. The position of q1 differs is off by one place in this diagram. These transistors began showing up in shineis pedals including the univibe, super fuzz and companion. The reuss sf02 goo goo fuzz is a clone of the legendary 1960s shinei univox fy6 superfuzz pedal.
Npd diy companion fy2 fuzz discussion in the buzz box started by rawdatalab, may 26, 2018. Reuss sf02 goo goo fuzz shinei fy6 superfuzz clone. This is also my first completed build since i started posting here. The shin ei fy 6 was probably one of the most widely distributed fuzz pedals of the late 1960s through mid 1970s. The very first version of diylc, written in delphi and runs only on windows. This project now includes a transparent booster stage on the output to greatly increase the volume output without altering the sound of the fuzz. In the past i made a shinei companion fuzz on which i used 2n37 vhf lo hfe qs. Get the latest news of coda effectss blog, maximum once a month.
The germanium diodes in the sf02 are ultra rare, vintage new old stock oa90s and the transistors are the correct sixties superfuzz mix of vintage panasonic 2sc828s and matsushita tin can 2sc539s. Dirkh shin ei fy 6 original effect designs complete with verified schematics, layouts and instructions. It was sold as an oem product, rebranded, and resold by more than a dozen other manufacturers, including apollo, avora, hohner, honey baby, jax, jh experience, lre, mana, micatone, rands, shaftesbury as the duofuzz, teisco, univox as the superfuzz, and their own companion. Mieda extracted the fuzz circuit, packaged it in its own small stompbox, and in. Admitedly, the wah in these are not great so a boost could be added to. This is the third and possibly final shin ei fy2 companion fuzz ive built. Toshiba transistors were manufactured in tokyo and all bore the prefix 2sc in compliance with the newlyinstituted japanese industrial standard.
1102 1155 333 954 1376 806 1402 771 1270 1056 945 1107 737 49 1289 32 1129 906 1397 1552 732 1060 1175 860 1332 1443 700 1553 1526 22 502 1467 441 65 1228 877 646 571 1196 1248 1089 221 196 1420 1316 135 279