The Factory- germanium fuzz kit

tres bon kit ,mais perfectible : les composants sont de bonne qualité, les potentiomètres un peu cheap.
une fois assemblé, très bonne pédale avec des possibilités sonores étendues.
à revoir : le boitier aluminium, commandé prépercé : les perçages des potards ne sont pas correctement alignés, et légèrement décalés vers la droite.
les documents disponibles permettent de lassembler sans encombre pour peu que lon possède les connaissances de base en électronique.

martineau c., 17.05.2016

A pesar de que el envío se retrasó unos días más de lo indicado, todo llegó en perfectas condiciones. Las instrucciones / esquemas se siguen con facilidad. Tardé poco más de un día en soldar todos los componentes y después decorar el pedal.

Aún no le tengo pillado el tranquillo del todo, pero por lo poco que he tocado, jugar con los potes STAB y COMP da lugar a muchas marcianadas psicodélicas y pitidos. Ideal para mezclarlo con efectos de eco/delay y modulación. Con el potenciómetro de DRIVE, abarcas desde un overdrive suave hasta una distorsión contundente.

En general, lo veo un pedal muy recomendable para tocar stoner / doom / sludge / rock psicodélico /metal.

Estoy muy contento con Musikding, probablemente vuelva a confiar en ellos para comprar algún otro kit.

Javier Ivar A., 09.08.2017

In English
The PCB is made in a very professional way, the board is very simple to assemble, but making the connections of the potentiometers is not easy.
I would rather mount the potentiometers directly on the PCB.
The sound is very nice, and I recommend to realize it because you can pull off very sound alternative.

The pedal is not easy to play, but this is valid for all Fuzz.
Recommended.

In ItalianIl PCB è realizzato in modo molto professionale, la scheda è molto semplice da montare, ma realizzare i collegamenti dei potenziometri non è semplice.
Avrei preferito montare i potenziometri direttamente sul PCB.
Il suono è molto bello, e consiglio di realizzarlo perche si possono tirare fuori suono molto alternativi.

Il pedale non è facile da suonare, ma questo è valido per tutti i Fuzz.
Consigliato.

Gaetano D., 12.12.2017

It takes a while to find out the right way to put all together inside the box, besides that the kit gives everything that is needed to make it work.

Héctor Alejandro R., 15.04.2018

Super Kit et super pédale.

Cest mon second essai de kit chez Musikding.

Le premier cétait the Screamer.

The Factory est plus facile à monter (moins de composants) mais le cablage est plus délicat et si on ne fait pas attention en soudant, le risque derreur ou de rupture dune soudure est plus important.

Il y a beaucoup de cables à souder, et peu de place, mais ça le fait.

Seul bémol, il manquait la diode parmi les pièces envoyées.

Jen avais une davance et finalement ça na pas posé problème.

Une fois branchée, la pédale fonctionne sans souci et produit du gros son ;).

Nico

TANNIER N., 16.04.2018

PACKAGE AND PCB

The package was organised very well, with every component divided by type in a very clear precise way (resistors by impedance, capacitors by capacity value, transistors by serial number and so on) and the pcb was very clear, with every spot clearly marked with the correct component number as read on the parts list.

BUILDING

The pcb soldering step is quite easy, as there are not so much components to work on, but here come some little troubles. First, there are lot of cables that starts from the pcb and ends to the potentiometers, the input/output jack and the DC in, that could became a true jungle without a rational organization, specifically in the future in case of maintenance needed. My personal advice is to tie the wiring that ends to the same component with little paper tape and write on short keyword to quickly identify it (i.e. volume for the wiring of the volume potentiometer etc.). This will help a bit also to keep the cables as divided as possible in order to avoid chaos as much as possible.
Second, the potentiometers are built with a little appendix on the side, which is designed for a better anchorage to the enclosure and for position maintenance during the use, but there are no holes on the enclosure for this ! You have to add them by yourself by drilling the enclosure and they have to be as similar as possible to the dimensions of these little appendix, at the right distance to the centre of the main hole. It is not possible not to do that, because without its space, this appendix will prevent you to put the potentiometers in the right way, with the right axis among the enclosure.

SOUNDS

I use it with very simple Alnico Classic humbucker on a 2013 Epiphone Les Paul Standard. At first, it seem to sound like a more cruchy overdrive, until drive pot is set before 3 oclock. After that, it literally releases the beast and goes crazy. Gate control is very important to limit background noise and to set the sound definition, in order to avoid muddy crap damaging your ears. Compression control is maybe the most interesting thing, use it to obtain from a punchy attack to 8 bit-like noises. Stab control works as low battery simulator, at the beginning is a bit complicated to learn how to use it in a proper way to obtain something special. Keep it almost all open to avoid unmanageable noises, at least at the beginning.

TIP: with a overdrive like Tube Screamer previously in chain, with middle range gain settings, it seems to be more usable and the drive pot works more linearly than before.

Simone B., 09.01.2019

In principle not a dificult kit, which could be done by a novice but not with the doumentation provided. I used to have an original Fuzz Factory and this one reacts exectly the same and the settings you can find all over the internet work as expected.

Peter M., 27.06.2023