Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Modern adaptation of the classic Fuzz Face. Nothing too special about the circuit, except for the fact that it uses biasing methods side by side with the fuzz pot. Original units have two resistors in parallel from Q2 emitter to ground, but i’ve replaced those with a 22K trimmer for this layout. There’s a lot … Read more
A few people were after this one and as it’s pretty close to Colorsound Bass Fuzz, i decided to tweak the layout for a Jumbo. Notes on Phillip Bryant’s schematic note that this circuit is apparently 1:1 with Colorsound 3-knob Tonebender re-issue..
Info about the “original” modified Timmy: A firm natural overdrive with a pleasant silky sustain. An easy to handle overdrive with great sustain without any unnatural compression. It keeps the characteristics of the tones that the guitars naturally produce. The Jan Ray reproduces that great sustaining punchy clear tones of the blackface Fender amps from … Read more
A request. Info from ROG: One of the often overlooked Fender amps is the tweed-era Princeton. They are excellent guitar amps, especially for blues playing. The major drawback was the 4.5 watt output wasn’t enough to keep up with a band. Again, using the technique pioneered by Doug Hammond, we decided to try to capture … Read more
I was doing a request, and this one was so close to the one requested, so i thought i’d draw it up too. Mark has published this in the past and that one fits easily in B, but the one i’m posting now should be doable even in A… 🙂 This also features a trimmer … Read more
The “Vintage” control looks like something that is new to me… Video of Geiri’s build:
Info from Analog Mike about his silicon original: We have some BC108 and BC183 silicon transistors, and have been making silicon Sunfaces for several years now. The BC108 are in small metal cans while the BC183 are plastic. Silicon fuzzfaces came out in about 1969. Dallas Arbiter used both of these types in their Fuzz … Read more
Positive ground effect so as usual consider using the negative voltage inverter. Info from Analog Mike about his germanium original: We are now making these in our own cases, as the Analog Man Sun Face . They are hand-built in the USA in small gold boxes, with our own USA made SUNFACE circuit board, which … Read more
