Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Request. A Tonebender set of transistors should do very nicely in this, aim for somewhere between 50 and 80 for Q1 and Q2, and 100 to 130 for Q3. This is a positive ground effect and so can’t be daisy chained with your negative ground effects, so consider using a small Negative Voltage Inverter daughterboard … Read more
Info about the original: Ever played an original FuzzFace from around 1970? (HINT: Not AT ALL the same sound as ones with the same namesake being mass-produced currently.) Ours has two intentionally mismatched (for harmonic content) silicon transistors that snarl and spit… not for the meek! If you put the “Fuzz” on 10 you will … Read more
One more from the Dragonfly archives. This one is a must for us who have tons of low leakage, low gain germaniums on our hands. The name is describing the circuit well, as it takes 4 germs to get one ripping fuzz running. Note that this is “positive ground” circuit. You can always use a … Read more
The bass version was requested, so i thought i’d draw these both, as only main difference between the two is the tone stack. Demo of Geiri’s build:
There was a bit hassle with this one, but now it’s verified and working. Comments on the post are a good read if you’re building this. Thanks to Mr. Photon for his amazing work, and special thanks to Pete who verified this. Mind the notes about the transistors. This is drawn from schematic marked as … Read more
Request. There are situations in which very long cable runs are necessary from the pedalboard to the amplifier, or a more powerful driving circuit is needed to the heavy load presented by devices in parallel. A good buffer box is the solution. The best buffer board will present a high impedance to the input while … Read more
This is per the original schematic, not a reissue. I made the transistor pinouts to match your basic transistors and i think that 2N5088s should work just fine in there. Original units have 2SC945s in them, so mind the pinouts and twist the legs if you want to use those. Medferret’s demo clip of his … Read more
