Ironic Perforator

Warm at One End, Feral at the Other

Creamy overdrive at one end, gnarly asymmetric fuzz at the other, and everything worth having in between. The Harmonics knob is the whole trip. Keep it low for edge-of-breakup drive that follows your pick attack. Turn it up and the pedal starts making decisions. [TBD: roughly where on the knob it tips from overdrive into fuzz]

It stays touch-sensitive the whole way. Dig in and it bites. Roll back your guitar’s volume and it cleans up like nothing happened, so one setting can cover more than one part of a song.

Classic is the vintage-correct voice: warm, wooly, slightly feral. Modern swaps in a silicon and germanium diode pair for more bite and more cut, built for mixes where three other people also have opinions. Flip the toggle. Nobody can stop you. Legally, nobody has tried. [TBD: one sentence on when you reach for each mode]

Starting Points

Four settings to get you somewhere fast. Knob positions are clock positions.

Sound	Mode	Harmonics	Volume
[TBD: e.g. edge of breakup]	[TBD]	[TBD]	[TBD]
[TBD: e.g. rhythm fuzz]	[TBD]	[TBD]	[TBD]
[TBD: e.g. Modern lead]	[TBD]	[TBD]	[TBD]
[TBD: e.g. bass or synth]	[TBD]	[TBD]	[TBD]

Correct, and Then Some

Copying this circuit’s layout is the easy part. The parts are the hard part. Ours uses the same ones the original was designed around, starting with the odd couple at its heart: one germanium transistor and one silicon transistor, paired exactly the way the original paired them. [TBD: one sentence on what the exact parts do for the sound, in your words]

Sourcing took months. Several people used the word “excessive.” We used the word “correct.”

We did improve the power section, on purpose, so [TBD: what the improved power section does for the player].

Around that core: German-made jacks, film capacitors chosen for linearity and the life expectancy of a tortoise, and pots that will outlast several of your bands. Every unit is hand-soldered in Seattle.

Nothing You Don’t Need

Two knobs, one toggle, one footswitch. Harmonics sets the drive, from light growl to full saturation. Volume decides how much of it leaves the box. The toggle picks Classic or Modern. No menus, no apps, no firmware updates at 2am.

On your board, the jacks sit on top, so it packs in tight next to its neighbors. It measures [TBD: width × depth × height] and runs on a standard 9V DC center-negative supply, drawing [TBD: current draw in mA]. The ring around the footswitch glows purple [CONFIRM: when the effect is on]. True bypass, so when it’s off, it’s actually off.