"new - old sound"

In a way I seam to have missed Great artist like Jimi Hendrix. Those guys made their guitars sound awful (at least that was what I thought during that time), 

I did prefer the clean guitar sound of players like Chet Atkins, Les Paul and why no Hank B Marvin. Often with loads of echo as a part of their sound.

So what happens, the Youngster become´s a Man, hmm partly an old Man and suddenly their seam to be an urgent need in his own guitar sound for DISTORTION!!!!!! 

Somehow I ended up with a Behringer Bass Over Drive, conected it to me guitars and there it was, for me a new sound. Not the perfect sound that kept ringing in my ears, but at least something similar. The gadget was set up to give only a small part of distortion.

The Bison guitar plugged to the OverDrive and then a lead to me Burns Orbit amp. But something in this chain of sound seaméd to be wrong. Suddenly I remembered that even Burns did produce a distortion pedal, or a Fuzz box as it was often called during the 60-ies.

So I started to search for everything that was written about this box. The Burns Buzzaround, already the name of the gadget seamed perfet for my purpose. I found pictures of the real thing but also pictures and electronic schematics that would make it possible to make my own "Buzzaround" Clone.

Even if once upon a time my electronic skills was great, today it scare´s the hell out of me to even try solving an electronic fault. So a call to my electronic freind PEO was made, maybe he could help. Sent him the schematics and got a quick answer. 

-Well I do have everything you need, and I did solder the parts together. IT SOUND LIKE SHIT!!!!! YOU DONT WANT THIS GADGET CONNECTED TO YOUR GUITAR, DO YOU?

So in the meantime I constructed a nice suitible box looking at least partly as the orginal box. Painted it with original Double Six grey metallic paint (Daimler D6 that is) and in a short while the box looked really nice. 

To end it of I even put a Burns badge on top of the thing!

The holes for the three controls have not yet been drilled. It also seam to be in need of a flashy "BUSSAROUND" sticker in front.

Hopefulle the electronics will arrive next week and I will have my first opportunity in life to play me guitar with the sound of an Original Burns Buzzaround.

 

 The original from the 60-ies has even found an Original Clone if the form a the Burns Buzzaround made app 2000.