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Title: Fuzz Fail
Post by: MrBump on November 13, 2010, 10:08:13 PM
Buoyed up by talk of build-your-own effects pedals, putting aside all my historical failures in this area, and spurred on by links on this damn form to musikding.de, this morning I had a crack at the Sliicone Fuzz Face.

Why do I do it to myself?

Hours of my life wasted, precious time that I'll never get back and can scarce afford to lose given that I'm pushing the big 40. 

Why do I continue to delude myself that I'm technically capable of building these things???  All the evidence suggests I'm shitee at it, my spare room is littered with the half assembled corpses of BYOC or other such nightmares.

And people on this forum actually claim that they LIKE building pedals!!!  Liars or masochists, every last man-Jack of them.

I'm never, NEVER going to buy another pedal kit as long as I live.

Ever.

Mark.
Title: Re: Fuzz Fail
Post by: gwEm on November 13, 2010, 10:14:04 PM
pics or we will consider this project a complete success
Title: Re: Fuzz Fail
Post by: Ian Price on November 14, 2010, 11:46:20 AM
Yeah - get some pics up. I've always been 50/50 on a BOYC or similar kit.

If you've so much stuff that you won't get round to finishing you should whack it up on seconds out. I'm sure a few would be interested.
Title: Re: Fuzz Fail
Post by: HTH AMPS on November 14, 2010, 10:35:20 PM
and it would sound something like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVmwOfBghJA

Title: Re: Fuzz Fail
Post by: sgmypod on November 19, 2010, 08:00:39 PM
love your fuzz HTH, also what is the little amp thing
Title: Re: Fuzz Fail
Post by: sgmypod on November 19, 2010, 08:01:57 PM
Ahh watched the end credit...a 3w amp...mmm nice....how easy to build one of them
Title: Re: Fuzz Fail
Post by: HTH AMPS on November 19, 2010, 10:15:57 PM
Quote from: sgmypod on November 19, 2010, 08:01:57 PM
Ahh watched the end credit...a 3w amp...mmm nice....how easy to build one of them

easy when you know how, that easy I suppose, ha ha  :lol:
Title: Re: Fuzz Fail
Post by: sgmypod on November 19, 2010, 10:19:29 PM
so no secrets given away LOL
Title: Re: Fuzz Fail
Post by: HTH AMPS on November 24, 2010, 03:28:14 PM
Quote from: sgmypod on November 19, 2010, 10:19:29 PM
so no secrets given away LOL

its just a Fender Champ circuit, very early one when they used a pentode preamp valve (6SJ7) rather than a dual-triode (12AX7).

Title: Re: Fuzz Fail
Post by: sgmypod on November 25, 2010, 12:20:30 PM
mmmm will have to look up
Title: Re: Fuzz Fail
Post by: CaptainDesslock on December 01, 2010, 04:28:43 AM
you could always just buy a fuzz factory and save yourself the trouble!

oh and on a minor note fuzz sucks through my new grado 325i's, I tink i'll have to be returning them :(