Dazatronyx Big Fuzz Console Ultimate Multi-Muff

The Dazatronyx Big Fuzz Console is an advanced, "breadboard-style" development tool and multi-fuzz pedal designed for Big Muff tone-shaping. Instead of hiding the circuit, it unrolls the classic four-stage Muff circuit across the front panel, allowing the player to manipulate nearly every component value on the fly via external switches and sockets. It is a Big Muff style fuzz first and a laboratory second: the same pedal works as a deep fuzz voicing machine and as a way to learn why classic fuzz circuits behave the way they do¹.

RockBoard's PedalPedia describes the pedal as having global controls for Sustain, Tone and Volume, and it includes a built-in buffer with an In/Out switch, so the buffer can be taken out of the path if the player prefers¹. Paolo De Gregorio of Delicious Audio called it "a deeply thoughtful, fully analog development tool that invites you to look under the hood of why classic fuzz circuits behave the way they do"².

The four stages and the component switches

Delicious Audio's walkthrough describes the pedal as four stages laid out for experimentation. Stage 2 is the gain boost with diode clipping, and it incorporates a rotary transistor selector, selectable clipping capacitors including a no-clip option, and dedicated clipping-stage controls. Stage 4 handles the final boost before the volume control².

The headline feature is that the switches and sockets put component values, not just voicing presets, in the player's hands. That is what separates the Console from a conventional multi-mode fuzz: the player is setting resistor and capacitor values stage by stage, the way a builder would on a breadboard¹.

Transistor selection

Each of the four gain stages has a six-way transistor selector. The options are a 2N2222A in a socket, so other types can be swapped in, plus five fixed types: BC337-25, BC547B, BC547C, 2N5088 and 2N5089⁴. Because every stage has its own selector, the same pedal can mix transistor types across the four stages rather than committing to one set.

The Ultimate Multi-Muff and the Violet Ram's Head session

The Ultimate Multi-Muff is the name Guitar Pedal X's Stefan Karlsson used for the Console configured as a comprehensive Big Muff voicing machine. In his 1973 V2 Violet Ram's Head session, he worked from reference component values "aggregated from a variety of resources including Kit Rae's Big Muff Pi page"³. His preferred settings for that voicing, with the reference value in brackets, were:

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For the transistor choice in that session, Karlsson tried 2N5133s, then BC547C, and finally settled on BC547B as his preference for the Violet Ram's Head voicing³. The same series of sessions covered other voicings, including a 2007 V7H EarthQuaker Devices Hybrid Hoof edition, which Karlsson concluded by saying "it consistently delivers my favourite Big Muff tones - this is for sure the Ultimate Big Muff Pedal, and one of the very" best multi-fuzzes overall⁵.

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