My Fuzz Face clone

[yeeshkul]

I just finished my FF clone yesterday with a great help of the good spirits from this forum, who i wanna give a big thank.

Eventually, it sounds brilliant. For the time being (tweeking) i just used an empty plexi-glass box from a gibson pickup (a nice solid plastic) and fixed everything in.
First i put inside a thick cardboard frame that fixes the breadboard and battery, than the rest (some of the pot pins are connected to the circuit by the solderless plugs, just to avoid destroying pots by heat - that's what happens to me far too often).

I also added:
- Mike Fuller mods
- the second foot-switch connects the 1K pot to the collector (Mike Fuller mod) and gives more gain to the possible solo.
  One drawback is that both - pot and the switch are very  audible - probably because right on the battery - would anyone please help me to damp a bit the pop of this second foot-switch?
- two switches for changing input cap - the first one switches between 2.2 and 0.22uF (0.22uF sounds crispier than 2.2uF but doesn't change the character of the sound,
  i have to recommend giving it a try) and the second switch connects some really small cap in series.
- a blue LET that glows nicely through the plexi and gives the whole thing a bit of visual magic (hihihi)

[puretube]

WOW - looks great!

Now THIS IS the most transparent Fuzz I`ve ever seen! 

[petemoore]

   Cool Guts !!!
  I had a box like that one for a time...dont' overstress the hinge pins !

[Melanhead]

That box is cool! ... I have two of them at home to store junk in ... way cool! 

[yeeshkul]

Definitely a good way to get rid of those empty gibson boxes

[yeeshkul]

This is how it should be looking like when i have my EH sort of enclosure finally made.
I just love those old good retro-looking EH boxes

[Connoisseur of Distortion]

that looks really sharp as is. wouldn't be a bad way to experiment with some effects, if you want to carry it around and try different rigs.

and those graphics... i really do need to do something with my pedals! 

[phillip]

Excellent work!  I wish that I could afford some of those Gibson boxes     I have a couple of Seymour Duncan boxes, but they're not nearly as nice!

Keep building!  It's highly addictive...lemme tell ya!

Philllp

[yeeshkul]

Guys I am connecting the 1K pot in the collector of Q2 by SPDT foot-switch just to get some more gain when i wanna play something like lead part. The trouble is i feel a bit like Jessie James when i push it since it really bangs. Do you think there is a chance to get rid of the pop (it is literally more than audible)?

[Seljer]

Not sure about this but I think you would get less pop if you left the resistor always connected and you used the switch to short it out when you would't want to use it?

[yeeshkul]

i am afraid that this is the way that i am using right now.
SPDT switch just shorts the pot out / connects it back to the collector path... 
but thanks mate for the reply 

[roknjohn]

Love the final layout, but where did you find pots that go up to 11? Mouser doesn't carry em anymore.

I 'spose you use this for playing Spinal Tap covers.

[yeeshkul]

I finally found what causes the laud pop when i connect the 1k pot to the Q2  collector - the trouble was in wiring the pot to the SPDT switch.
Here are both - the complicated and popping style and a simple one that works flawlessly.



this is just in case anyone runs into the same problem ... even though ... building things the most difficult way just to suffer for a few days is probably just my syndrome

[petemoore]

470 or 470k?

[yeeshkul]

oh, 470 ohms indeed, sorry ...