vintage Mosrite fuzzRITE rescue

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vintage Mosrite fuzzRITE rescue

Post by hulakatt » Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:38 am

Not a guitar but a small repair on an old Mosrite fuzzRITE. So, at thanksgiving, an older family member asked me if I could repair an old fuzz of his. In the 70's, he was at a concert and the bass player was using this fuzz but it was acting intermittent and temperamentalso he removed it from his signal chain and chucked into the audience in a fit of rage. My family member managed to grab it. Took it home and it didn't work so he put it in his workbench drawer and forgot about it until we started talking about old fuzzes. He brought it to christmas and left it with me to repair.

2 broken solder connections, a bad battery clip, crusted switches and missing screws and feet.

I'll take some more pics of the finished fuzz but this is how it came to me.

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Re: vintage Mosrite fuzzRITE rescue

Post by hulakatt » Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:51 am

So... cleaned up the case as best I could without losing any of the remaining screen print graphics. Cleaned up the knobs and jacks. Cleaned all the pots and switched. Resoldered the 2 loose wires. Soldered in a new battery clip. Found some SS wood screws that matched the original thread pitch of the original feet and battery door and put some Crybaby feet on them.

Fired right up in all of it's super aggressive and bright fuzzy glory! Of all the clones I own, the Del Rey Custom Shop fuzzMITE is the closest in sound.

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Re: vintage Mosrite fuzzRITE rescue

Post by ludobag1 » Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:42 am

Silicium or germanium one ?
I built several different clone of fuzzrite and thé better to my taste was the one with the schematic found in a mosrite amp ,but they all have thé same thing they share ,they are one trick pony ;) ,i like it very much but the control are useless for me they have only one sound

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Re: vintage Mosrite fuzzRITE rescue

Post by hulakatt » Thu Jan 20, 2022 12:53 pm

ludobag1 wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:42 am
Silicium or germanium one ?
I built several different clone of fuzzrite and thé better to my taste was the one with the schematic found in a mosrite amp ,but they all have thé same thing they share ,they are one trick pony ;) ,i like it very much but the control are useless for me they have only one sound
It's an Si version but apparently an early one due to the knobs. From my understanding, Mosrite switched to different, shorter knobs shortly after switching to the Si version. Yeah, the knobs don't do much and the usable sounds within that range aren't many but what it does, it does well! In the old debate between doing a lot of things kinda well or doing less things but better, I'll side on the side of the one trick ponies! I'm gonna sound like me anyway so I'd rather sound awesome then try to be versatile.
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Re: vintage Mosrite fuzzRITE rescue

Post by hulakatt » Thu Jan 20, 2022 12:55 pm

Although it isn't mine, the owner admits he has no use for fuzz pedals and forgot he had this one for over 40 years so I might get to hang on to it. I'll have to work out a deal at some point.
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Re: vintage Mosrite fuzzRITE rescue

Post by øøøøøøø » Mon Jan 31, 2022 9:54 pm

Awesome save

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Re: vintage Mosrite fuzzRITE rescue

Post by MattK » Tue Feb 01, 2022 4:57 am

hulakatt wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 12:53 pm
I'm gonna sound like me anyway so I'd rather sound awesome then try to be versatile.
THIS is the truth that so many people seem to never understand when choosing gear. Hats off!

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Re: vintage Mosrite fuzzRITE rescue

Post by hulakatt » Tue Feb 01, 2022 3:08 pm

MatthewK wrote:
Tue Feb 01, 2022 4:57 am
hulakatt wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 12:53 pm
I'm gonna sound like me anyway so I'd rather sound awesome then try to be versatile.
THIS is the truth that so many people seem to never understand when choosing gear. Hats off!
:blush: I don't get why so many people fight such an uphill battle against this. The biggest thing with leaning into it is finding the gear that works with you and not against you but yeah, you're gonna sound like you, for better and for worse.
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Re: vintage Mosrite fuzzRITE rescue

Post by hulakatt » Tue Feb 01, 2022 3:10 pm

øøøøøøø wrote:
Mon Jan 31, 2022 9:54 pm
Awesome save
Thank you!

having fun playing it against an AnalogMan Peppermint Fuzz, a Del Rey Custom Shop fuzzMITE and an Ashbass fuzzBRITE. The Ashbass is much more woolly and fat sounding. The Del Rey could be it's sonic twin. The Peppermint is wildly more flexible and varied but still gets into the same sounds with ease.
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