Acapulco Gold vs Fuzz War

[jb2106]

Yo guys,

I've been considering getting an EQD Acapulco Gold because I think it would be perfect for my garage/stoner/psychedelic rock band and I love the fact that it only has 1 knob !

But I was wondering if it would complement well my DBA Fuzz War or not ? If any of you guys have both, how did they compare ? I'm concerned there will be a lot of overlap since those are both Big Muff variants apparently... I'd be down having both on my boards but if I can get by with only one of those, I'd be happy too since pedalboard real estate and $$$ is tight

[D.o.S.]

Someone in the Doom Room dove into the Acapulco Gold and if I remember rightly it isn't a Muff based pedal?

[Jero]

Acapulco has nothing to do with a big muff circuit wise. It's a dual power amp distortion (two 386's running nice and hot)

[hbombgraphics]

I would think they would stack up nicely
EQD amp style pedals and muffs is generally good

[braaandooon]

The Acapulco Gold seems to be a supercharged Fuzz Face. The part count is very close, the AG has an extra resistor which sets its distortion/fuzz level to max, instead of having the extra pot that the Fuzz Face has. Outside of that swap out the germanium tranny's for LM386's and you have an Acapulco Gold. The trace is kind of a pain to follow as the PCB is blacked out.

I enjoy mine, and the pedal really has its own vibe. It acts like a Fuzz face where as the pedal responds to your guitar's volume knob.

[blindrabbit]

The Acapulco Gold seems to be a supercharged Fuzz Face. The part count is very close, the AG has an extra resistor which sets its distortion/fuzz level to max, instead of having the extra pot that the Fuzz Face has. Outside of that swap out the germanium tranny's for LM386's and you have an Acapulco Gold. The trace is kind of a pain to follow as the PCB is blacked out.

I enjoy mine, and the pedal really has its own vibe. It acts like a Fuzz face where as the pedal responds to your guitar's volume knob.

This makes me really want an Acapulco Gold.

[bob the r0bot]

It's a little more straightforward than that actually (and a little more brutal). If you look at the sample implementations on the data sheet, it's basically the 200x gain amp going into the 20x gain amp.

Here's the annotated schematic from free stomp boxes: http://i.imgur.com/qWZwqdc.jpg
whoops, that was his tweaked schematic, here's the actual one: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/422 ... o%20v4.png

and here's the 386 configurations: http://gadgetronicx.com/wp-content/uplo ... rcuits.png

[decomposing]

isn't that the rat chip?
wonder how my iron pig fares to that thing
pretty rad pedal for overdrive to full crunch

[bob the r0bot]

You're thinking of the LM308 which is an expensive, out of production operational amplifier. The LM386 in the pedal is a cheap, low voltage, audio amplifier.

[decomposing]

ah gotchya