Hyperion Fuzz SMD

About The Pedal Creators

Everyone can build excellent boutique guitar pedals. Everything we do is to make that experience more accessible and user-friendlier. The Pedal Creators series are the best and easiest to build PCBs ever. Including most resistors and capacitors already soldered on board as SMD components, leaving the key values for you to experiment and craft your own tone. Now you can build a pedal you are proud of in less than an hour without any previous experience. What are you waiting for to become a Pedal Creator?

The Pedal creators – key features:

• Easy to build, no previous experience required. It’s like Lego for musicians.
• Fast assembly finish a pedal in less than an hour. Play your favorite record and enjoy the ride along.
• 100% mistake-proof. Even my grandma can build one while she cooks.
• Build your own boutique pedal. Experiment with different values and make the pedal you always dreamed of.
• Easy to scale. Turn your passion into a money-making machine.

Project overview

Two fuzzes, one Boost, one box! The Hyperion fuzz is really a wonder in its design and sound, packed and with lots of gain. Although when we grab this schematic, we were attempting to make a Boss FZ-2 inspired fuzz, after building it and testing, we realized, in fact, it wasn’t a direct clone of that legendary fuzz. Yet, we were blown away by the tone and features of this mysterious circuit.

Introduction

Soooo… while devolving the Hyperion Fuzz, we figured out that it’s not what we thought it would be. Basically, we were going for a straight clone of the Boss Hyper Fuzz ™ and what we had when verifying the boards was an amazing sounding pedal… but it did sound different… very Good, packed with gain and tonal settings but different. So we did some more research and figured out that the schematic we were using was something different. We weren’t able to figure out if it’s someone’s own creation or based on something. But its schematic is definitely not even close to the FZ-2.

This model requires a DPDT ON/ON/ON SWITCH* to have the 3 modes fully functioning.

If you are experienced and feel like an experiment, you can replace it with a 3p4t Rotary switch. Of course, this would require you to box the pedal in a bigger enclosure with a different pots layout.

It might not be a bad idea to make a new version in the future featuring this mod, and maybe some tweaks on the EQ section, like adding mids control…

Controls

• Gain
• Level
• High
• Low
• Mode toggle (Fuzz I, Fuzz II, Boost)

For further analysis on this circuit take a look at this thread on Free Stomp Boxes Forum.

For any technical questions regarding this build don’t forget to check out our Facebook Group and our forum at Free Stomp Boxes.

Hyperion Fuzz SMD – Building Docs

Hyperion Fuzz SMD – Drilling template