Home Made Fuzz Box

Home Made Fuzz Box

Hey -I've finally gone and built myself a repro of the old Fuzz Face!
I bought a bunch of the old Red Spot Germanium transistors off E Bay -
all brand new but really old. I tested them and matched up a pair with
not too high gain. I've experimented and changed a couple of the
values of the resistors an one of the capacitors and i've now got a
cool sounding unit.
I've just put it all together loosely, so the next thing is to put it
all in the diecast box i've bought. It has a fabulous "loose" sound -
like a well blown amp - a sound I really haven't heard for years.
The first band I was in in late 60's, (as bass player) the guitarist
had a new Vox AC30, a brand new Gibson 335 and a new Fuzz face - his
Dad bought all of them for him and gave him a Jaguar Mk2 car as
well !!!!!!
Anyway my unit sounds (to my ears) pretty damn good.
I'm going to have a go at a "boost" pedal next, just to get a level
shift for lead breaks. This will be simpler as only a one transistor
unit.

Geoff

Re: Home Made Fuzz Box


"Stopmbox" <geoffwalker888@btinternet . com > wrote in message
news:1174770672.725713.290140@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups . com ...
> Hey -I've finally gone and built myself a repro of the old Fuzz Face!
> I bought a bunch of the old Red Spot Germanium transistors off E Bay -
> all brand new but really old. I tested them and matched up a pair with
> not too high gain. I've experimented and changed a couple of the
> values of the resistors an one of the capacitors and i've now got a
> cool sounding unit.
> I've just put it all together loosely, so the next thing is to put it
> all in the diecast box i've bought. It has a fabulous "loose" sound -
> like a well blown amp - a sound I really haven't heard for years.
> The first band I was in in late 60's, (as bass player) the guitarist
> had a new Vox AC30, a brand new Gibson 335 and a new Fuzz face - his
> Dad bought all of them for him and gave him a Jaguar Mk2 car as
> well !!!!!!
> Anyway my unit sounds (to my ears) pretty damn good.
> I'm going to have a go at a "boost" pedal next, just to get a level
> shift for lead breaks. This will be simpler as only a one transistor
> unit.
>
> Geoff
>

If you felt inclined to share the schematic, a suitable binaries group is
News:alt.binaries.schematics.electronic .

Re: Home Made Fuzz Box

On 24 Mar 2007 14:11:12 -0700, "Stopmbox" <geoffwalker888@btinternet . com > wrote:

>Hey -I've finally gone and built myself a repro of the old Fuzz Face!
>I bought a bunch of the old Red Spot Germanium transistors off E Bay -
>all brand new but really old. I tested them and matched up a pair with
>not too high gain. I've experimented and changed a couple of the
>values of the resistors an one of the capacitors and i've now got a
>cool sounding unit.
>I've just put it all together loosely, so the next thing is to put it
>all in the diecast box i've bought. It has a fabulous "loose" sound -
>like a well blown amp - a sound I really haven't heard for years.
>The first band I was in in late 60's, (as bass player) the guitarist
>had a new Vox AC30, a brand new Gibson 335 and a new Fuzz face - his
>Dad bought all of them for him and gave him a Jaguar Mk2 car as
>well !!!!!!
>Anyway my unit sounds (to my ears) pretty damn good.
>I'm going to have a go at a "boost" pedal next, just to get a level
>shift for lead breaks. This will be simpler as only a one transistor
>unit.
>
>Geoff

Try a Rangemaster clone using one of the left over transistors. You can vary the
cap values to get a variety of treble, mid and full range boosting tones.

Good dirty fun. enjoy.


Ron

Effect pedal demo's up at * w w w .soundclick . com /ronsonicpedalry