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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.
This is a clone of the old Shin-Ei Companion FY-2 fuzz, but it's got a twist.
If you've ever tried one of the old Companion fuzz pedals, you know that they seldom achieved unity gain. So you'd kick it on and your volume would drop a little. Not exactly ideal for banging into a solo.
This Fuzz Dog board has a post-fuzz boost that's really loud. The way it's shown in the photos is at unity gain. The Fuzz control is dimed and the Volume control is almost all the way down.
DIY fuzz face guitar pedal project, documented from arrival of components to final result, including some screenshots from simlating the circuit.
This is what i've up to lately. It is a fuzz factory clone for a friend. Nothing too special about. Learned a lot when making it. Not so sure it actally sounds the way a real one does, but it makes noise so thats enough for me (i dont know much about guitar pedals). The name is finnished version of fuzz factory. In some parts of finland the f's are sayed as v's.
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08 Luglio 2012 - TAGO FEST 2012
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