Black Hawk Pi Bass Fuzz 2025 - Tall Font Green

Black Hawk's replacement for the Åsgard Fuzz in a 1590BBS in olive green to resemble the Sovtek Tall Font Russian.

Purchased directly from Black Hawk and includes the original box and packing paper as new.

With the five controls on the pedal face, PLUS the two internal dip switches AND six internal trim pots, there is a crazy amount of tweakability, making this the ultimate Russian-based Big Muff for bass (and sounds killer on guitar as well).

PLEASE NOTE: Grogu is not included as he and I have formed a life bond, which is why he is now so fond of pedals.

From Black Hawk:
"A much overdue version of the PI π BASS FUZZ as a replacement for the ÅSGARD BASS FUZZ

Taking influence from the legendary GREEN RUSSIAN PI π only adding:
•PARALLEL CLEAN BASS control (with active bass boost and low pass)
and internal toggle switches for the clipping.
•Switches for diode or MOSFET clipping and clipping frequency HI / FULL.
•Trim pots for noise reduction and the low pass and bass boost for the clean.

•KT3102E transistors in the green and BC549C in the black.

•With every version, the best transistor is carefully selected and measured for the best "HFE" (or gain) for each stage and tone for that circuit. Whenever possible the original transistors will be used but if there is a better alternative, thats what will be used.

•The main difference between my Green and Black Russian PI fuzzes is gain of the transistors.
The black being higher gain BC549C going deeper into "fuzz" where as the Green stays more of a high gain "distortion" with its imported mid gain KT3102EM transistors.
This is to keep the core sound as close to the originals as possible.

•All the important things are as exact, the proper emitter and collector values and diodes that are as close to the original as possible.
In fact, instead of the usual WIMA caps I went with the big green mylar film caps for the nf values to get even closer to the original tone and ceramic disk for the pf. They actually sounded a lot more accurate!

•Added a mid boost/scoop control. so not only can you achieve flat/unity mids, you can even boost mids above unity (this is most effective above 9-10 o'clock on the tone control)

•CLEAN BASS control is PARALLEL meaning instead of being a mix between clean and dirty, it's a separate volume for clean which can go above unity into boost.
Rather than a standard clean blend, this is clean bass, using both a "low pass" trim pot and trim for the gyrator EQ boost at 55-70hz. (If the one thing about clean blends to add bass to a pedal is they still pass the high cleans when the whole point is to not lose bass, then why not do the thing properly?)

•I’ve added a simple transistor noise reduction on the second clipping stage to help keep feedback and oscillation down without producing any unwanted artifacts. This this adjustable by the "Threshold" trim pot.