spare parts fuzzrite complete

[joelindsey]

I built a Fuzzrite spur of the moment last night with some spare parts, so I figured I would share it. It's not pretty, but it sounds beautiful. Total 60's psych. Complete with Sharpie graphics!




I used the schematic from Fuzz Central, except I replaced the 470k collector resistors with 50k trimpots. I also put a very small cap from the input to ground to reduce noise. It cuts the high end a little, but it doesn't bother me since I play through a Twin Reverb which has "enough treble to peel the paint of the walls" (as my guitar teacher put it once). Transistors are just 2n3904's. BC107's were cool too. 

If anybody is interested I can sketch up the perfboard layout I made, though there's probably more efficient layouts out there. 

The enclosure was originally going to be for a Super Hard On clone which I never got around to building, which is why the stomp switch is in the center. I'd like to clean up the wiring at some point, maybe if I ever get around to re-housing it. To me nothing beats the bent steel wedge-shaped enclosures!

[Derringer]

nice work, a cool sounding circuit and I dig the box layout

the only thing I'd recommend is to use less rigid wire. I always ran into intermittent signal problems from flexing solder joints when I tried used thicker gauge single conductor wire.

[LucifersTrip]

I used the schematic from Fuzz Central, except I replaced the 470k collector resistors with 50k trimpots.

always cool to see another Fuzz Rite...." replaced the 470k collector resistors with 50k trimpots"   500k trimpots?

ps: hope you remembered the 22K

[joelindsey]

500k trimpots?

Nope, 50k's. It seemed like some people prefer to use 10k's. ...but maybe that was for the germanium version...

470k didn't really do it for me on the breadboard though. The 50k trims give it lots of flexibility tone-wise.

Derringer: I agree. The thinner wire is way the heck easier to work with. I'm fresh out, unfortunately.