General Guitar Gadgets speaks well of the circuit on its product page: "This is a great distortion box by Aron Nelson. We highly recommend building this fuzz box."1 That recommendation comes from the kit supplier itself, so it reflects the seller's view of the design rather than an independent review.
What it does
The Rocket is described as both a distortion box and a fuzz box, meaning it is a gain circuit that pushes a guitar signal into clipped, saturated territory1. As a project, it comes as a kit, a project or a bare PCB, so the builder supplies the enclosure, hardware and soldering. For a player comfortable with an iron, that makes it a way to get a distortion or fuzz voice in a self-built stompbox.
Other pedals named Rocket
Rocket is a name more than one maker has used. Gokko Audio makes a pedal branded GOKKO called the Rocket, a finished production pedal rather than a DIY project, covered on its own page at Gokko Rocket2. The two share only the name: the Aron Nelson Rocket is a build-it-yourself circuit, while the Gokko Rocket is a manufactured stompbox.
The Aron Nelson Rocket is a DIY project, not a commercial pedal. It has no factory specifications, power requirements or controls list of the kind a finished pedal carries; those details depend on how the builder populates and wires the circuit.
Videos
Aaron Nelson
Sources (2)
- Rocket: Fuzz Schematic & Layout, General Guitar Gadgets, 2014-05-15
- Rocket - GUITAR PEDAL EFFECT PEDALBOARD, buy pedals online, guitar effects pedals, Gokko Audio
