I love the Bazz Fuss circuit!

[jasonsmusicgear]

I built the bazz fuss for my bass player last night and had to make an extra for myself.  This is a great fuzz circuit for guitar!

I am still new to this and have been a little frustrated with my first three fuzzes because of a lack of sustain, but this thing has it.  I would definitely suggest building this simple circuit if you haven't.

Here's the links I used
http://home-wrecker.com/bazz.html
http://www.geocities.com/tpe123/folkurban/fuzz/fuzz.html

[mac]

I built one with a home-made low leakage Germanium darlington and it sounds excelent. I wrote something about it. I suggest to use a 25k trimpot to find the sweet spot.
Going to try a buffer at the front or a variable resistor before the input cap so as to make it more compatible with HB pick ups.

mac

[Apehouse]

if dig it then you should check out the Whisker Biscuit:
http://www.runoffgroove.com/whisker.html

it's a Bazz Fuss/Big Muff hybrid. It's AWESOME!
-Greg

[ambulancevoice]

for some reason my bazz fuss doesnt fuzz very much, more acts like a gritty boost
when i pre drive it, i turns in to fuzz/overdrive hybrid, and i think it cause i used the wrong Collector resistor
im gonna build another soon and yeah

[Toney]

Try an mpsa13... that'll get things popping 

[ambulancevoice]

i used mpsa14
twice the gain

its most likely the collector resistor
i didnt know what value i used, i just guessed what it was

[raulgrell]

How would it sound with 2N3904 transistors? They're the only ones I have at the moment and I don't wanna have to move 50 miles just to go get a trannie... If the gain is two low, could I stack a few stages?

[markm]

How would it sound with 2N3904 transistors? They're the only ones I have at the moment and I don't wanna have to move 50 miles just to go get a trannie... If the gain is two low, could I stack a few stages?

Sure!
Well, I'm not sure if this is the same build or not.

http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album76/Bazz_Fuss_LAYOUT

[Toney]

The combo I was most happy with was 10k collector resistor and Mpsa13.
No worries using a 5088 or 3904 but you should increase the collector resistor to suit.
Try 100k.

[tommy.genes]

Note that the Home-Wrecker Bazz Page has a tip for a "homemade" darlington using two 2n5088 or similar transistors. The 2n3904 should work fine in this arrangement as well.

-- T. G. --

[jasonsmusicgear]

How would it sound with 2N3904 transistors? They're the only ones I have at the moment and I don't wanna have to move 50 miles just to go get a trannie... If the gain is two low, could I stack a few stages?

I used 2n3904s to make my own Darlington using this example.

[cab42]

Note that the Home-Wrecker Bazz Page has a tip for a "homemade" darlington using two 2n5088 or similar transistors. The 2n3904 should work fine in this arrangement as well.

-- T. G. --

I tried that, but I never got it to work. I propably did something wrong, but then I found an mpsa13 and used that instead.

I read somewhere that you could put a gain pot on the input to tame the fuzz as requested by the bass player I play with, but i think that would as shame. Instead I will build a blender, eg. Sean M's B.Blender

Regards

Carsten

[Toney]

if dig it then you should check out the Whisker Biscuit:
http://www.runoffgroove.com/whisker.html

it's a Bazz Fuss/Big Muff hybrid. It's AWESOME!
-Greg

Plus one and a bit more.
This one's a killer, guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.
I think it's the ultimate Bazz Fuss variant. Loads of sustain. The bastard lovechild of a Big Muff and a Bazz Fuss.
Easy build too

Here's a layout  

and a simple blend circuit for it... here

[Apehouse]

if dig it then you should check out the Whisker Biscuit:
http://www.runoffgroove.com/whisker.html

it's a Bazz Fuss/Big Muff hybrid. It's AWESOME!
-Greg

Plus one and a bit more.
This one's a killer, guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.
I think it's the ultimate Bazz Fuss variant. Loads of sustain. The bastard lovechild of a Big Muff and a Bazz Fuss.
Easy build too

Here's a layout  

and a simple blend circuit for it... here

yep, i love that circuit.
I made one for a bass player friend of mine who was going for a Cliff Burton 'anesthesia' sort of sound. He loved the whisker biscuit but didn't like it altered for bass so i added RG's Pan in and Pan out circuit so he could mix in a little clean bass. Just enough to give put the bottom end *boom* back. But the combination can give a world of various tone. I called it the Ether Bomb, which was the name of an early anesthesia.
in the pictures thread:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=36392.msg321942#msg321942
(of course i had to put a red led on the whick of the bomb so the fuse looked lit when it was on)
-Greg