Zander Circuitry - Cafetiere Harmonic Percolator Guitar Pedal, handmade in the UK
Zander Circuitry - Cafetiere Distortion
You don’t need cream & sugar with this one, the freshly-brewed tones of the Cafetiere are enough to keep you going!
Based on infamous “Percolator”, the Cafetiere takes the bare bones of the circuit and expands it into a tweaker’s dream, adding in a bunch of extra parameters to let you dial in the perfect fuzz tone.
In addition to the standard Level & Gain controls we’ve added a second gain control that is selectable with with the Gain 2 footswitch.
The Tone control is a useful low pass filter that is great for taming some of the harsher top end frequencies this circuit can have (especially if using a single coil guitar). Starve reduces the voltage available to the circuit, allowing you to create some really gated/lo-fi fuzz tones. Feed sweeps the input capacitance from low to high which alters the bass response.
We’ve then added a 6 way rotary switch that lets you choose between various different clipping options for the diodes, these are Germanium, Silicon, Red LEDs, MOSFET, Transistor & None.
TECH SPECS:
Controls – Volume, Gain 1, Gain 2, Tone, Feed, Starve
Switches – Engage (bypass), Gain 2, 6-way clipping diode selector
Jacks – Top mounted in/out jacks
Power requirement – 9v DC Center Negative PSU
Current Draw – 20ma (approx