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The first Fraternities are out of the oven !!!!!

This is an overdrive/distoriton covering lots of tonal ground





Ill get some sunlighted pics tomorrow...

Looks great!!! You thinking of putting up any youtube demo clips of 'em?

Thanks, yeah videos will come for sure.... tourboxes too..........

In fact if anyone is interested in taking one for a spin you can say so here for now .......

Donner wrote:Thanks, yeah videos will come for sure.... tourboxes too..........

In fact if anyone is interested in taking one for a spin you can say so here for now .......

Count me in!

I would certainly be interested in trying one of those. The finishes are outrageous!

What is the circuit topology of that OD/Dist????

What's the story behind the name "fraternity?"

Love the red one. Care to share any info on them? A quick google didn't turn up and I have to be intrigued with that many knobs!

The 'Fraternity' is a Versatile Vintage Voiced pedal covering a wide variety of overdrive and distortion tones - nothing earth shatteringly new here ~ just about any kind of grind you would want to lay on your amp from barely to raging .....

Its circuit ancestry would include Fatcats,Rats,FKRs,Dist+,FatBoxes and some interesting clipping options and tweeks ....while navigating its controls you may run thru familiar tones on your way to finding your own ........

The five controls are: Level and Gain on top

a 6 position clipping diode selector in the middle (because every good Frat has a 6 pack in the middle)

and Tone (not filter) and Fill (Ruetz Mod)

and it will come in a wide variety of DonnerBox finishes some familiar and some new .....

the FRATernity is completely handmade in St. Louis

the First 22 will be $222 shipped and paypalled



Ha! no videos yet - I may do a general 'what it is ?' control tour video soon........

Im design/marketing/painting and sales departments

my long time friend and amp tech/electrician/plumber/carpenter/graphicartist/guitarist buddy JP is on lead soldering iron ....

I do the outside and he does the inside,and we designed it together and this is as it should be

Ill get a vid together tomorrow if theres time....

Eskimo_Joe wrote:What's the story behind the name "fraternity?"

Fraternity has 'rat' in it - its kind of a 'Brotherhood of the Rat' as it incorporates parts of the rat and related circuits ..... FRATernity = FatCat/Rat = Paternity

I had this idea for a long time to combine the FatCat (Ibanez Rat with a normal tone control and a different chip) with the FatBox (dist+ with clipping options on a rotary) the Rat is very similar to the Dist+ and both are from the 70s ...
the 'Fill' knob fills in the bass that Rats cut out and it also lowers the distortion saturation - this is the Lube knob on Dano/Beavis Audios FKR and it is the old 'Ruetz mod' from Phillip (Fill) Ruetz (with both danos and Phils blessing)

and we have some pretty exotic clipping options in both the OD (loop) and Distortion (ground) config ..

john fromel ( Folk Fuzz boards) helped with the boards and even BJ gave some advice on clipping options ...

'Versatile Vintage' is the guiding thought for the Full Moon line ....... the Fraternity was origianlly concieved as a drive channel for the amps but its very useful by itself and lets see if it has its own wings ....