Good PNP Silicon transistors for fuzz face?

Started by claytushaywood, December 02, 2013, 01:56:42 PM

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claytushaywood

I have a 5 knobber 2 switcher fuzz face built from madbean's old zygote board.  I currently have 2 germanium PNP's in there and I was thinking itd be cool to try out some silicons.  Though it seems like the common transistors for silicon fuzz face circuits are all NPN.  Rather than mess with a bunch of changes to convert to NPN,  are there any PNP silicon transistors that would work well in place of PNP germaniums for a fuzz face type circuit?  and my bias pot is 20k, maybe that would need to be changed to bias the silicons?

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Quote from: claytushaywood on December 02, 2013, 01:56:42 PM
are there any PNP silicon transistors that would work well in place of PNP germaniums for a fuzz face type circuit? 

the model # won't matter as much as hfe...just try to keep the hfe's under 200 with Q1 lower than Q2...if you want it more synthy and compressed, choose higher hfe

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and my bias pot is 20k, maybe that would need to be changed to bias the silicons?

most likely
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