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1 Project Overview

2 Introduction & Usage

INTRODUCTION

The Flare Fuzz Machine is a clone of the ZVEX Fuzz Factory, a really interesting little box first released

in 1995. It's essentially a classic Fuzz Face with a LPB-1 booster in front of it, but with the twist that

half of the components are replaced with knobs, allowing fine-grain control over the transistor bias

and letting you create everything from a really thick-yet-musical fuzz, to gated velcro-ripping, to some

pretty crazy pitch-oscillation.

This is not a user-friendly pedal by any means. The knobs are very interactive, and there are a lot of

setting combinations that straight-up don't work. But if you start with some default knob settings, you

can get a good feel for what it's capable of. See page 5 for suggested starting points.

The Fuzz Factory is notable for being custom-built directly into the guitars of Matthew Bellamy of Muse.

He uses it for his main drive tone as well as for feedback & oscillation purposes, controlling the effect via

the Stability and Compression knobs which are mounted to the front of the guitar.

The Flare is a close adaptation of the Fuzz Factory, but with 8 knobs while the original only has 5. The

added knobs are Softness (gain reduction of the input boost stage), Body (bass blend before the fuzz)

and Tone (treble cut after the fuzz).

USAGE

• Drive controls the amount of fuzz, equivalent to an overdrive's gain control. This also turns into

something of a feedback pitch control when the Stability is reduced.

• Level is the output level of the effect.

• Comp (compression) changes the attack. It is heavily affected by the Stability control.

• Stability reduces the +9V supply to change the bias of the whole circuit, changing the overall

character of all of the knobs and eventually throwing it into oscillation.

• Gate turns off the transistor when the signal is below the threshold. Useful for creating glitchy

velcro-ripping sounds.

• Soft reduces the gain of the first boost stage, which rounds out the fuzz a bit and gives it more of an

overdrive character.

• Body is an input capacitor blend that fades between a 100n and 10uF capacitor. This increases the

bass and thickens up the effect.

• Tone is a classic SWTC (Stupidly Wonderful Tone Control) appended to the end of the circuit to

allow the treble content to be tamed a bit.

FLARE FUZZ MACHINE

10 Licensing

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