# Making The Super Fucker, Pt. 2

- Site: Analog Industries
- Author: Chris Randall
- Date: 2005-12-01
- URL: https://analogindustries.com/2005/12/making-the-super-fucker-pt-2/

![Making The Super Fucker, Pt. 2](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/super_fucker_done.jpg)

Well, that was easy enough. Aside from one rather drastic mistake on my part, the Super Fucker Mk. 1 was really easy to build. The only problem I had is that I didn't leave enough clearance between the switch and the case for the battery. I was only off by about 2mm, but it's all the distance in the world in this case. I won't make that mistake twice.

And how does it sound? Let me just say that whoever designed the [original circuit](http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=94) knew what the fuck they were doing. I don't know how different my changes make it sound from the orignal circuit, as I never built that, but it sounds \_really\_ good as is. My changes involve swapping the 2.7K resistor with a 2.2K, using germanium diodes instead of the recommended ones, and using 2N2222A metal can transistors instead of the 2N5088 on the schematics.

I tried a lot of different transistor pairs before settling on the 2222A. I found a couple combinations that sounded more or less the same, and one combo that sounded markedly better, but the output was too low. Adam has a suggestion for increasing the gain, so I'm going to try that on the next one, with the other transistor pair.

And since you're curious now, [here's an MP3](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://www.analogindustries.com/samples/super_test.mp3), which I hope you'll listen to with the understanding that I'm not the world's greatest guitar player. The chain is Parker Fly on neck+middle, to the Super Fucker, to a TL Audio tube pre, straight in to my MOTU 896. I'm using Amplitude on the 800 Clean preset. The first little riff is without the pedal, then with.

## Comments (2)

**Heretic_D™** (2005-12-01):

Who played guitar on Salvation?

(I don't have the liner notes on me, not that I think it mentioned specifically)

**Chris Randall** (2005-12-01):

Tom Gaul, if memory serves me correctly. I played all the guitars on Sins (except for the solo in "Why Not," which is Al J), Metropolis, and evolution. QED.

-CR