Drunk Beaver's Pedal Drop #33 is the superb Irpin take on one of my favourite fuzz circuits - the Roland Bee Baa

Drunk Beaver’s Vitalii - has done an amazing technological evolution here - where he splits out the Fuzz and Boost - and assigns them via Multi-Mode Footswitches and LEDs.

Vitalii’s switching systems allows you to switch between  5 functions with just 2 footswitches.

So we have 2 footswitches and 2 bicolor indicator LEDs:

RIGHT LED - indicates effects status :

• Red - Boost on
• Blue - Fuzz on
• Purple - Boost + Fuzz on

LEFT LED - is thefuzz EQ mode indicator, always on :

• Red - Flat EQ
• Blue - Mid scooped EQ
• Purple - mix of both

RIGHT footswitch:

• Short press - Boost toggle
  Long press - Boost + Fuzz toggle

LEFT footswitch :

• Short press - Fizz toggle (this wasn’t possible in Roland units, as it only switched between boost or boosted fuzz)
• Long press - Flat/Scooped EQ toggle
• Double press - Mixed EQ mode

Effects are switched by signal relays and the EQ has electronic switching, everything is controlled by a MCU.

There are interesting and high quality NOS Japanese transistors used : Sanyo 2SD1450 for boost and 2x Matsushita (Panasonic) 2SD1330 for the fuzz stages.

There will be just 30 units available on the Drunk Beaver Webstore when this article goes live - at $175 each. I feel like this is going to be a very popular release - and you will need lightning reactions - or before you know it - they will all be gone!

As a usual rapid prototyping project there is no official demo for this release - so I will refer to a sound sample of the original source pedal.