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Fuzz Face - without the Face

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8/21/2000 8:40 PM
Man o'Blues	Fuzz Face - without the Face I like the fuzz face, but its too bulky to carry around and would take up too much space on a pedal board. Does anyone make a copy of this pedal (exact same circuitry) but in a smaller box? Thanks in advance for any replies.

8/21/2000 8:55 PM
PTJohn	I bet you can find a good one at the GEO site, if not R.G. may have some good suggestions as to building one. Or, you could buy one and put it into a BUD box. I've done that one, and it works fine.

8/22/2000 12:44 AM
Frank Clarke	PNP or NPN?. I have an excellent PE Face Lift which has one extra component to the PNP. They do an NPN version. Other ideas: JH-2S JIMI HENDRIX CLASSIC FUZZ http://www.jimdunlop.com/electronics/jimi.html http://www.geofex.com/Article_Folders/fuzzface/fffram.htm

8/22/2000 2:34 AM
Steve Daniels (Small Bear Electronics)	You may want to look at my Bear Face: Http://home.netcom.com/~smallbearelec

8/22/2000 2:51 AM
Gord	....or just get a used reissue (they do sound good), get a hammond 1590B box, do some drilling, and move the parts into the new box. Not a bad idea when you consider that it will still cost a fraction as much as a boutique box. AFAIK, Fulltone uses the same transistors as the Dunlop reissues. Gord

8/23/2000 3:16 AM

Daniel R. Haney

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"AFAIK, Fulltone uses the same transistors as the Dunlop reissues."

Not quite. Fuller does the same thing we do - sift moldy PNP germaniums for low leakage and the right gain spread.

The Dunlops use unknowns rebranded as NKT-275 and will be happy to sell them to you for $40/pair, i.e., they don't want to sell them to you.

Between Steve Daniels, RG, and friends, we can all toss together a dynamite FF clone without any help from Dunlop.

-drh
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8/23/2000 2:59 AM
Andrew	I probably could get the circuitlry into a smaller box if you sent me the schematic.

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