They can make the low gain overdrive tones sound silky smooth, or fat and crunchy. Crank them up and the fuzz gets brighter and more hairy/splatty, dial down and it smooths out. The Presence trim is a sort of tone/presence control. The Range trim is a pre-gain control that affects how clean or dirty/aggressive the drive is. These can be adjusted with a small screwdriver, and I found the real magic happens with these two controls. On either side of the enclosure are two adjustable trim pots, controlling Presence (left) and Range (right). Shown above - Side view of the Lunar Module showing one of the user accessable trim pots mounted in the sides of the enclosure, and the Deluxe version with these trims converted to dedicated knobs on the top of the pedal Compared to typical fuzz pedals, touch sensitivity was good with the LM. Adjusting the guitar volume down smooths out the tone into the clean light drive/rhythm area, allowing touch sensitive playing. It is also very interactive with the trim pot cotrols. I found the entire pot sweep gives very usable tones, but this control also allows you to really fine tune the fuzz to work well with your particular amp tone. The Sharpness/Body control adjusts the thickness and clarity of the fuzz, increasing or decreasing the bottom end of the tone body like a bass control. Not over the top screaming agressive splattiness, but a good saturated fuzz. At the top of the sweep it does a very nice high gain fuzz. At low settings it is very much a smooth overdrive pedal, something typical fuzz pedals don't do very well. The Fuzz knob controls the amount of gain, like a typical fuzz. The three knob LM features Volume, Fuzz, and Sharpness/Body controls on the top panel. I found the LM can go anywhere in my pedal chain, and the tone does not seem to be affected in a negative way by other buffered pedals. Buffered pedals in the chain can also react negatively to a fuzz circuit and alter the tone. Drop a Fuzz Face in the middle of a pedal chain and the sound ususally changes for the worse.
Most Fuzz Face type pedals like to go first in the signal chain, right after the guitar, due to the way they operate with the guitar pickups as a whole circuit.
As an overdrive and a fuzz pedal hybrid, the LM does both very well, and more. A Fuzz Face with really good BC108 transistors will get you close to those screaming fuzz tones, and the Power Boost will give you the overdrive tones. In the early to mid 1970s Gilmour was known to use a Silicon Fuzz Face, along with a Colorsound Power Boost, pumped into his clean Hiwatt and Fender amps. I love tradiditonal 2 and 3 transistor Silicon fuzz pedals, so I was anxious to try this one out, and I also wanted hear how it handled some of David Gilmour's Pink Floyd tones. Hand made by Marc Ahlfs in California, the LM was based around his Screwdriver overdrive pedal circuit, but with different components and values. SKREDDY LUNAR MODULE - The Lunar Module is a versatile Silicon based fuzz from Skreddy Pedals that was designed around the fuzz tones heard on Pink Floyd's 1973 Dark Side of the Moon album, but it really covers much more territory than that. Shown above - The original three knob Lunar Module, the five knob Lunar Module Deluxe, and the later Deluxe housed in the standard small enclosure.
SKREDDY LUNAR MODULE and LUNAR MODULE DELUXE
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