I posted something about this circuit (https://forrestwhitesides.com/germanium-bazz-fuss/) a while back. It's a Bazz Fuss (of course), but with a pair of geremanium transistors in a darlington configuration. I used the oddball 2N1101 NPN transistor from Smallbear because it's available, relatively cheap, and nobody else is doing it. 8)
Added a gain control and some filtering here and there. I think it still needs a little tweaking, but it's got a decent sound as is.
The enclosure is from Love My Switches and I laser-etched the art. Then I used acrylic paint to back-fill the etched out parts (pickdropper taught me this technique). This was my first time doing this technique, and I think it worked pretty good. As always, getting good alignment is the devil in the details, but it's not *that* hard. Pretty nice look you can do 100% at home and on the fly. Here's my post right after I finished it so you can see it pre-drilled: https://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=32273
I can't find my SMT parts stash, so the indicator LED doesn't work until I either find that box or my new resistor kit arrives. :/
I got some wacky colors of paint I'm going to try next (sparkle purple, etc). I'll post my findings.
(https://i.imgur.com/zvfgioy.jpg?1)
(https://i.imgur.com/JQRSMnL.jpg?1)
Looking spiffin! Great build and etch and all!
aww, bear!
The bazz fuss really is a useful circuit.
This laser and backfill technique is something I would love to do. This looks really nice. Great job.
Thanks guys!
Very cool. I love the Bazz Fuzz, lots of good learning can be done with that simple circuit.
Is this one going to become the next Function F(x) product?
Quote from: Matmosphere on February 17, 2021, 09:39:01 AM
Is this one going to become the next Function F(x) product?
Negative. It's a neat little project, but not really something we would do as a branded product. :)