EHX oddity, 3 transistor axis fuzz....

[jerms]

here we have a real oddity from EHX.... a strange axis fuzz!! there's no internal circuit board, everything's point to point wired..... i traced it out and it is a 2 transistor muff fuzz with a big muff tone stack tacked on with a makeup gain transistor added on the end.... surprisingly sounds very similar to a fuzzrite.....

chain: early 70's guild S-100>pedal>early 60's brown princeton>MD421>garageband

[so&so]

That's pretty cool.

[waveclipper]

That's a curious one. A true PTP EHX with a weird circuit - could it have been some sort of prototype?

Sounds nice and trashy, light on the sustain - dig it!

[HorseyBoy]

A real neat job on the wiring, too. For some reason I always pictured a team of trained monkeys (some with wings and little round hats, like in "The Wizard of Oz") working on the EHX assembly line, but that's a fine piece of work.

[jerms]

yeah who knows what the story is on this one.... the tan resistors are the identical to the ones in my perfboard muffs.... the pot with the switch has a date of the second week of may 1970.... so mid 70 production for this thing i'd bet.... wonder if it was an early tryout for the muff fuzz????

[petey twofinger]

female hispanic trained monkeys .