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Somehow what’s old is new again. But smaller. And possibly more refined? At the very least slightly more adapted to my current aesthetic and current need for optimized space usage in and around the house. Ladies and germs, the new and improved VauxFlores Number 24 – A high-gain, three-transistor fuzz originally designed to utilize components common to San José, Costa Rica, yet equally common over a decade later in Ithaca, NY. Looking for a compact effect capable of going from a slight buzz to full-blown insanity with the turn of a knob? Look no further, this one’s for you.

Originally introduced in early 2012, the 24 boasts a variety of features, including:

• Individual transistor bias control for maximum versatility, ranging from a mild overdrive to bit-reduced chainsaw madness.
• Tone switch providing two separate tone paths, making this box equally suited for guitar, as well as bass, tuba, alpenhorn, synthesizer and amplified whale bones.
• Also sounds great on x0x sounding bass drums for those into the whole hardcore gabber thing. Or so I’ve been told.
• Voltage sag for those into sputtering weirdness and energy conservation.
• Artwork derived from data-bent imagery and audio signals, including sounds produced by the 24 itself – so in a way, this pedal had a hand in generating it’s own artwork. Because why not?

However, as this is some sort of European rack-based thingy, there are features that is doesn’t have, namely control voltage. It’s a distortion. Or maybe a fuzz. Either way, it makes things loud and unwieldy. You… don’t control that. If you need some sort of dynamic pumping or hyper-specific squirrel sounds, use an external VCA or a compressor. It’s modular, man – you piece it altogether instead of searching for some sort of robotic holy grail that will grant you total power over your sound. Also, don’t go down that rabbit hole. These are instruments intended for having fun and making music. If you’re doing this out of some sort of plea for control over an aspect of your life, therapy is probably cheaper now once you factor in the tariffs.

Business Stuff

Price for this guy is $119, which includes shipping and handling (whatever handling actually is). Hopefully that’s a decent approximation of utility and value in the current hyper-capitalistic price-gouged inflation  fest that is our contemporary global economy. I’m doing all that I can to keep things as affordable as humanly possible, but until the dust clears and those in a position to profit over human misery have been brought to knee, I at least have to cover expenses. However, please keep in mind that each one of these is lovingly built by hand and while we’ve spared no expense on quality, we have spared expenses on marketing, packaging, merchandising and other general business necessities. In other words, don’t expect a neat box with a glossy zine promoting other products or an interactive DVD where you can compare models, etc. We went this way intentionally in order to provide you, the public, with an affordable, quality module without up-selling you on the fluff. What can I say, we’re practical weirdos who stand behind an honest product and would rather not subject you to a sales pitch. Why? Because after over two decades of being firmly entrenched in the world of diy experimental music, it’s all we know. Maybe one day this will change, but until that watershed moment, we’re still here to offer you honest gear at an honest price and write about our singular endeavors in the collective third person.

If you decide to take the plunge, we ship priority mail from Ithaca, New York, typically from the mail room of a large research institution that dominates the general economy of said town, for anyone really into specifics. In the case of international orders, we’ll do whatever we can to get it to you in a reasonable amount of time with tracking attached – but kindly remember that this decade is currently defaulting to perpetual toxic weirdness, so patience is probably a good thing to muster. Either way, I’ll do what I can to get things to you in a sane and reasonable manner.

Additional Info

• Power is provided by the usual ribbon cable (included) – red stripe down into the shrouded header. Power draw is minimal – probably less than 100 ma, positive and negative.
• As with all audio electronics that have exposed circuitry, I am in no way am responsible for electrocution, injury, loss of life, etc. due to misuse of this product, act of angry deity, etc. I trust that you’ll do the right thing in the end and not do something foolish like lick this or perform in the bathtub or something, but hey, gotta cover my backside.
• Depth is also minimal – definitely skiff-friendly.
• Width is 8 hp. Small, but still relatively functional. Could I have made it smaller, yeah, sure. but as someone who actual plays one of these things in live performance settings, it’s nice to actually be able to access knobs without a pair of tweezers when you have to.
• Finally, as with all our products, this one comes with our usual blanket, all-encompassing, non-expiring, totally transferrable “if we can fix it, we will” guarantee. I build solid and stand behind my wares, but in the event that something happens, I’d like to think I have your back. Just don’t do something asinine like melt it into a block of styrofoam or douse it in lucite. That might complicate things. Just frame that one and put it on your wall. Whatever you did, the story is worth more than the object.
• Finally finally, if any questions come up, please feel free to get in touch. We’re people persons – honest!

Also, this is a limited edition run – meaning I’m only making a finite amount of these critters (around 20). Considering this is easily the third or fourth iteration of this circuit I’ll probably end up making more of these at some point but the truth is I’m just one dude with a life and a family who builds these by hand when he has the time. I’m a builder not a manufacturer and the thought of sitting in one place hammering out run after run of these things kind of defeats the whole joy of why I got into building in the first place. But in the meantime, between this that and the other thing, there are more pressing priorities out there than making synthesizers, if you’d believe it.

Media

A brief foray into delicate obliteration alongside some other VF friends and relations.

DIY

Also, considering that each month seems to bring some sort of additional global catastrophe by way of my country’s oligarchical idiocy, here’s a link to DIY resources for anyone interested in actively boycotting the US economy. I seriously don’t mind – in fact, I think I actually encourage it at this point. Not to say that it doesn’t bring me joy when someone tosses me cash for these things but my priority is you making music, not me making money. This has been a public service announcement. Here’s the link:

https://github.com/vauxflores/Electronics/tree/master/Eurorack/24