Fuzz Face Clone

[Jinx]

Built a fuzz face clone.  Used tonepad and smallbear germaniums for the project.  I found that the sound is quite muffled.  Is that a normal characteristic of the fuzz face?  It sounds smooth and has a nice gritty fuzz but it seems to roll the treble away considerably as if it were you covered the speakers with foam to block out some sound?  just trying to describe the sound.  trhanks  Jinx

[AdamB]

The fuzz face is a really tempremental circuit, especially if it's germanium. Changing values of the input/output capacitors etc. changes the tone of the beast, I think the higher values roll off more high end or something like that, try swapping out different values until you find the sound you like.

Also, germanium transistors change there sound depending on their temperature, so depending on how hot the room your playing in is it'll sound different (silicon transistors don't do this, but generally don't sound as soft as germaniums).

[petemoore]

 I found that the sound is quite muffled.  Is that a normal characteristic of the fuzz face?  It sounds smooth and has a nice gritty fuzz but it seems to roll the treble away considerably as if it were you covered the speakers with foam to block out some sound?
  Well not really, a FF can be trebly...the capacitors in a standard FF rolloff bass amount, depending on their size...so a misvalued cap wouldn't cut highs, a miswired one would..
  I always check bias on a FF, but misbias would mostly cause gating.