ALLORA HIGH-GAIN DARLINGTON FUZZ

The Allora has its beginnings in requests from players to make a higher-gain version of the Brute. To explore this path I started experimenting with Darlington transistors. These transistors have incredibly high Hfe measurements in the 10's of thousands, as opposed to the low-to mid hundreds of normal transistors. I'm using two Darlington's in the Allora, and this amount of gain required substantial reworking of the input, output, and Detail controls; as well as reconfiguring the overall transistor arrangement (BC108C, BC549, MPSA12's, 2N5089). I also opened up the Bias control to increase gating so that you can control noise, or not!