Modern Clone of a Very Early Fuzz - The Roland Bee Baa

In 1972, Roland began introducing effects pedals. According to some, part of their failure to gain a real foothold in the U.S. market stemmed from the fact that the Japanese parent company chose poor English names for their pedals. The Japanese auto manufacturers often managed to avoid the same issue in this era, for example the 240Z / 260Z / 280Z, etc. instead of the "Fairlady Z" as it was known in Japan. One of the most unusual, and according to some the worst, was the Bee Baa - a fuzz pedal with two primary modes. One which evoked a swarm of bees, the other a flock of sheep - subject to listener interpretation, of course. Honestly, I think the name is hilarious, but given this was the 1970s, "Bee Baa" likely didn't scream "rock and roll." For this build, I used the AionFX Ibex PCB. The documentation only dates to last October so this is a relatively new project, and there were still a couple of mis-labeled capacitors (though the values were correct - a couple of films caps were called out as electrolytic and vice versa).