I spent the weekend, reading many threads on multiple forums and doing general fuzz face research to the extent that on Sunday night I decided I should just drop the whole idea, the issue is that I just could not work out which transistors I should be looking for, once I developed a short list I would go searching for them only to discover they were not available or from an unknown source and potentially rebadged, or I need to buy at least 100 to sort through to find the 2 that will create the magic! I looked at matched sets from SmallBear, but living in the UK if I can find something a little closer to home would be preferable.
I've decided my first foray into the Fuzz Face world would be a silicon Fuzz Face with NPN transistors, I'm looking for something that's probably on the smoother side of the fuzz spectrum, and it's the cleaning up with the guitar volume pot I'm keen to experiment with having heard some really nice tones some players get.
So if anyone could name some transistors I should try that are readily available I would be most grateful. My multi meter can measure hfe, but it's no Fluke, so probably a bit of a crude measurement, but hopefully good enough.
By the way, I'd love to trying germanium transistors, but I get the feeling that's a true minefield! How is it that such a simple circuit is causing me such a head ache?
Sorry for the ramble, but any advice would be wonderful.
I've decided my first foray into the Fuzz Face world would be a silicon Fuzz Face with NPN transistors, I'm looking for something that's probably on the smoother side of the fuzz spectrum, and it's the cleaning up with the guitar volume pot I'm keen to experiment with having heard some really nice tones some players get.
So if anyone could name some transistors I should try that are readily available I would be most grateful. My multi meter can measure hfe, but it's no Fluke, so probably a bit of a crude measurement, but hopefully good enough.
By the way, I'd love to trying germanium transistors, but I get the feeling that's a true minefield! How is it that such a simple circuit is causing me such a head ache?
Sorry for the ramble, but any advice would be wonderful.