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The best part is, I took this photo without my contacts in with a manual focus lens :cD
Sheer luck I guess.
Big Fuzz in the newest member to our little family… and he sure fits in well! This cat sleeps in the weirdest positions – such as the face plant above. He’s pretty crazy in general and a huge attention whore. The funny thing is, he is the exact same color as our cat Sweets… just much fuzzier. I believe he is a ragdoll Siamese.
The Fool Audio Research Infinite Fuzz. It's a Fuzz Face clone with sockets so you can switch from Germanium to Silicon transistors.
Here are the transistors from this first one. The Silicon pair are 2N3799 transistors (the pair on the right). Q1 is 159 hFE and Q2 is 227 hFE. Q1 is identified with a black dot on top of its metal encapsulation. The Germanium transistors are a recent-production AC128 (all the way on the left) in Q1 and a vintage 2N527 (to the right of the AC128) in Q2. The AC128 is 72 hFE and the 2N527 is 126 hFE.
Enochian Theory + Hookah The Fuzz + Dakesis + Structures @ The Rainbow, Birmingham - Saturday 26th March 2011
Photograph by Stephen Turner for Midlands Rocks
© 2011 Stephen Turner
Well not really Russian, just soviet themed.
FuzzFace with Ge transistors on perf.
Jumbo white LED in vintage green bezel.
Switchable smoothing cap on Q2
Glow in the dark paint, waterslide decal then clear.
Fuzz & Stevie on play set in backyard at 4723 Arvilla Lane. This is where we moved to about 1951 after living at Pickwick Plaza for two years where we lived after moving from New Orleans June 30, 1949
Since my shrink tubing came in today, I went ahead and finished this Fuzz Factory build. Then I spent WAY too much time experimenting with transistors. I finally went with these two relatively low gain Russian transistors because they're still gain-y enough to fuzz like crazy and they're indestructible compared to most germanium transistors. Which is necessary with a Fuzz Factory. So Q1 is an MP39B with an hFE of 42 and Q2 is a GT308B with an hFE of 79.
These are basically a Fuzz Face circuit with pots controlling things that the user should never be allowed to control...heh... I mean, not really. It's just that a lot of people try these out and it's SO easy to get it doing something terrifying that there's a lingering assumption that these just exist to make random noises. Which they're really good at, but they're a pretty tweakable fuzz in terms of getting sounds you actually want to use melodically. Like, I wonder what Hendrix would have done with one of these.
So what you've got is the Fuzz and Volume controls from a Fuzz Face with a three position switch added to change the input capacitor, which changes the overall bass response. Then you've got a Stability control, which is just a voltage control that allows you to starve the circuit for voltage. Finally there's a Gate control that's really Q1 bias and a Compression control that's Q2 bias. Lowering the Q1 bias will make the whole circuit cut out below a given voltage threshold, so it really does act like a gate in a way. People use it for glitchy stuff. Then the Compression control (which is very interactive for obvious reasons with the Gate control) changes the way Q2 (the "Tone" transistor) behaves. Lowering it reduces dynamic range, so in a way it actually does act like a compression control.
These circuits are really touchy and there are more, "challenging" sounds here than traditionally usable ones, but they really can do some cool things.