Pussy Offender

Project overview

Here’s your chance to build one of the most polemical pedals now banned off the markets. This simple yet powerful drive consists of a MOSFET buffer followed by an opamp gain stage and a second MOSFET gain stage and will deliver all the distortion to melt or offend your audience and fellow bandmates!

Introduction

Everybody is talking about its name, but no one about the sound of probably the most controversial pedal ever. By 2018 Satchel from the Band Steel Panther released his own pedal in collaboration with TC Electronic, the Pussy Melter, and guess what? People were massively offended by the name. (Get the hint to our name?)

For a while, this was a great addition for the pedal itself and the band, but more and more stores refused to sell it, Even Reverb. People even made a petition against the pedal. So Satchel said that he would stop selling pussy melters.

In 2020 they released the Butthole burner, being this one the same circuit, but with a  different enclosure and a different effect on the general public.

But enough about that. Let’s talk tone!

I did not expect a bad pedal from TC but some kind of JMC800 emulation. Instead, it’s a completely new circuit design, and holy moly it delivers great rock n roll tones from the slight drive to dirty to… ahm… melting… things.

Sound-wise I would say it goes in a Marshall/Friedman direction, but a little bit darker.

Circuit requires the CA3240 opamp. Using TL072 or similar will not do the trick. At least it did not work in my build.

Controls

• Booty
• Dirty
•  Load
•  Sizzle

BTW, Load is volume, Booty is bass, Sizzle is a high end, and Dirty, the amount of gain and the moist/gushing toggle will let it go nuts for singing leads.

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.

Pussy Offender – Building Docs

Pussy Offender – Drilling Template