Best Fuzz Face to Build

[cove]

I sure could use some suggestions about which fuzz face to build..i finished the general guitar gadgets ff but iam not happy with the results...

if you could let me know about the top three choices.

thanks

[petemoore]

Multi-Face.
 Use lotsa socketsa
 Especially useful for finding 'your FF.
 Trimpot Q2's collector, My personal take is that Q1 does fine with 33k on it's collector, putting a trimpot there is easy though.
 Try different transistors and bias Q2, then re-tune [if necessary the caps and Gain/vol settings also guitar volume settings... with each swap.

[Oliver]

I sure could use some suggestions about which fuzz face to build..i finished the general guitar gadgets ff but iam not happy with the results...

if you could let me know about the top three choices.

thanks

Hi,

i build several FuzzCircuits too, searched every time for a typical Hendrix Sounding Fuzz - not to sharp, but Fuzz.

I found my holy grail into the RogerMayer Classic-Fuzz (added an input Impedance Pot, like the BIAS Pot in Fulltone '69).
That works great to overdrive an Amp, works really perfect with clean Amps and works together with a WahWah.
And it has more Output Power than usual FuzzFace Circuits i cuild like Stock FF.

bye
Oliver

[brett]

Hi.  It isn't a Fuzzface, but it's a reliable result and can sound almost as good as a *good* FF, and better than the too-common *it's not sounding good but I don't know why* fuzzface.  

It's the easyface.  Try a 100 ohm resistor on Q1 (any 2n3906) and a Ge tranny for Q2 (AC128 or AC188 with hFE of 120 to 300).

have fun