October Oxide Octina
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Oxide Octina Octave!
This special oxide edition of the Octina Octave Fuzz uses the modern version of the transistors found in the fOXX Tone Machine: PN3565's for a chunky base fuzz tone. Piggy-backed NPN/PNP push-pull transistor in just the right location gets a gnarly octave-up with adjustable intensity via the Scramble control. Smoothly transition from No Octave to Hella Octave. This is accomplished by changing the bias of both of the piggy-backed transistors in real-time. Turning the Scramble control from counter-clockwise to clockwise takes the Octina on a journey from raw fOXX Tone Machine fuzz, to Fuzzrite, to Superfuzz, to pure Tone Machine octave up. As well as many interesting stops in-between.
One of those stops, right around 2:00 - 2:30 on the Scramble control causes the Octina to go a little unstable, and feedback is lurking behind every note. In a few prototypes I dialed it-out and made it more behaved. But the more I played with this instability the more I liked it. So I decided to leave it in, just beware that ~2:00 on Scramble can get loosey-goosey.
Speaking of noise, the Octina is a tiny bit noisier than most of my previous designs, but that is the price you pay for all of those increased upper harmonics and transistor abuse. Some of my favorite settings are in the 10:00 to 12:00 range of the Scramble, especially where you get octave swizzles moving through chords. It creates really cool movement on sustained chord stabs. Also it responds really well to guitar tone knob and pickups changes. Flipping to the neck pickup, or turning down the tone on the bridge, really emphasizes the octave up harmonics, much like an Octavia. Lots of fun!
The 3-way Texture Toggle switches in/out diodes in this configuration:
- 80n Asymmetrical Diode Network
- Blower (Straight PN3565 Transistors)
- 1N4148 Silicon Diodes
These diode/no diode selections change both the character of the fuzz as well as the octave emphasis, so be sure to experiment.
