bazz fuzz pedal transistor type help
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Disease8 said:
Improvement is highly subjective, if you change something it will sound different.
This circuit sounds a certain way. If you want something different why not build a different Fuzz?
There a lot of different Fuzz circuits around the web, all of them pretty simple, and with different flavors.
I agree with midwayfair, why would you try to make this more refined?
If you want a more refined fuzz why not building a refined fuzz in the first place instead of choosing a rough fuzz?
hey yeah its just i wondered if there was anything this would clean up the high end a little like messing with diff resistors or caps, I have a 0.47uf in there but will try a smaller one. One thing I have completely left alone is the diode i dont even know which one I am using. I can buy some of the ones listed in the original spec maybe that will help?... 1n4148 http://personal.inet.fi/koti/holmberg/images/bazz.jpg I am very happy with the results! I am selling my distortion pedal the fuzz is much more in the right area for me. I may build the other christian one which is two bazz fuzzes together (buzz box). Or try another popular circuit. Is there another one you recommend thats a bit more clean and refined?
Here is the sludgy mess that is my pedal lol I like it though but its a bit over the top and there is a lot of harmonics and weird stuff flying around. My playing is sh*t so don't judge haha. (its cold and I cannot crank it up and I am out of practice and I burned my finger tip with the soldering iron)...
This is with the MPS13 transistor not my home made darlington from two s19015 (which sounded even more synth like and grimey!)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx9FzoUcSTTrQUo4UGpacGY4YVU/view?usp=sharing
again with 0.033uf.. much more clarity in the highs maybe try and even smaller cap as it still almost sound like a bass guitar!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx9FzoUcSTTrYVdEOEJqcmplckU/view?usp=sharing
thanks
Here is the sludgy mess that is my pedal lol I like it though but its a bit over the top and there is a lot of harmonics and weird stuff flying around. My playing is sh*t so don't judge haha. (its cold and I cannot crank it up and I am out of practice and I burned my finger tip with the soldering iron)...
This is with the MPS13 transistor not my home made darlington from two s19015 (which sounded even more synth like and grimey!)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx9FzoUcSTTrQUo4UGpacGY4YVU/view?usp=sharing
again with 0.033uf.. much more clarity in the highs maybe try and even smaller cap as it still almost sound like a bass guitar!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx9FzoUcSTTrYVdEOEJqcmplckU/view?usp=sharing
thanks
Sorry to post so much on my own thread! (Maybe it will help another idiot trying ti build the simplest circuit in the world.)
Someone on this thread said I should make sure the whole 9v aren't getting through to the amplifier. I have a feeling my pedal design is giving too much out .. It is going into my line level on my PC and driving it quite well. Also the wave form in cubase is really fault suggesting that its limiting it, its hard walling somewhere. I just want to define the distortion coming from the components from any distortion caused from overloading an amplifier input. When I plug my pedal into my amp the volume has to be nearly 0 otherwise its REALLY loud. Sure its just a cheap amp but its not the same when I plug straight into it. So I could be overloading the input on the amp. It sounds good just it might be a cleaner sound if I make sure its coming out at the right current, voltage and impedance. Thanks!
PS sticking with 0.033uf I think seems still bassey and chuggy but has nice high ends too
Someone on this thread said I should make sure the whole 9v aren't getting through to the amplifier. I have a feeling my pedal design is giving too much out .. It is going into my line level on my PC and driving it quite well. Also the wave form in cubase is really fault suggesting that its limiting it, its hard walling somewhere. I just want to define the distortion coming from the components from any distortion caused from overloading an amplifier input. When I plug my pedal into my amp the volume has to be nearly 0 otherwise its REALLY loud. Sure its just a cheap amp but its not the same when I plug straight into it. So I could be overloading the input on the amp. It sounds good just it might be a cleaner sound if I make sure its coming out at the right current, voltage and impedance. Thanks!
PS sticking with 0.033uf I think seems still bassey and chuggy but has nice high ends too
Maybe you should implement an output volume pot on your circuit,
check the Fuzzface and tonebender schematics, they have a volume pot on the output that let's you turn down the level before the amplifier but after the fuzz gain/clipping stage:
http://fuzzcentral.ssguitar.com/fuzzface/fuzzfacepnpschematic.gif
http://fuzzcentral.ssguitar.com/mkII/mkIIschematic.gif
check the Fuzzface and tonebender schematics, they have a volume pot on the output that let's you turn down the level before the amplifier but after the fuzz gain/clipping stage:
http://fuzzcentral.ssguitar.com/fuzzface/fuzzfacepnpschematic.gif
http://fuzzcentral.ssguitar.com/mkII/mkIIschematic.gif
When I built this it only sounded good when I made a "darlington pair" for it. You can make a darlington pair out of two regular npn transistors. Google "darlington pair" and you'll see how it's done. Substitute this for the single transistor and it might be better. Also, when the circuit isn't in a metal enclosure it'll be noisier.
L´Andratté
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Been there, done that...(and still not too much ahead of you ;D, and it get´s better!)Disease8 said:
Hardwalling the waveform is what fuzzes do. Yes, put a pot after the the output cap (try 100k log) and check what happens with ear and scope!
leadbreath
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I cant get any of the soundclips to play? DAMN! I need to hear "some strange f**ked up deamon fart synth" shit!!! ;D
