fuzz face masters

[emerswin]

Hello! I have built the GGG dallas abriter PNP pos. ground fuzz face. It's sounding pretty good although I may do some input cap tweeking for less bass. Also I have the 2k fuzz pot installed instead of the original 1k. I was able to get the voltages pretty close to the standard.
Q1
.8 C
.1 B
0  E

Q2
4.2 C
.8  B
.7 E
As is, I could easily live with how this pedal is sounding, but being a tweaker I'm wondering if any of the fuzz experts see from my voltages an obvious change I could make? Right now I have the 33k resistor in there, will changing this effect the .8 C reading on Q1? And how does this affect the tone? Many thanks!!

[MartyMart]

What transistors did you use?
I always use trim pots for the collectors of Q1/Q2 just so you can "tune"
them in nicely by ear
That's worth doing for sure, even with silicon trannies but definately with
Ge.

Marty.

[emerswin]

Marty, I'm using Ge. transistors. I don't have a suitable potentiometer to do the fine tuning on Q1. I guess my question is.....with the reading I'm getting on Q1, should I increase or decrease the value of the 33k resistor? That IS the right resistor to be messing with in the first place, right?? Thanks!!

[jmusser]

If you go to "Laurier's Handy Dandy Little Circuits" at http://members.shaw.ca/roma/fuzz.html you can see what Marty is talking about as far as using trim pots to dial in Ge Trannies for a Fuzz Face.

[emerswin]

ok, I see....the only problem is I don't have a pot of the right value so I'm gonna just swap in resistors til I'm close. To get my .8 reading down to .5 on Q1 should I increase the resistor size to say a 39k? Thanks