Retro Channel - The Fuzz [traced]
- Hides-His-Eyes
- Tube Twister
Probably uses Hollis' autobiasing circuit
Testing, testing, won too fwee
- Greg
- Old Solderhand
Is it Germanium ?
It doesn't actually say it is.. not I can see anyway.
It doesn't actually say it is.. not I can see anyway.
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If this is something unique, then I'm a teletubbie
But indeed - sounds shaggy
But indeed - sounds shaggy
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$180? at least it's prized right. I think I know what's my wifes next birthday present. She can be little bit mad, as she can't play guitar, but intension matters!
- Hides-His-Eyes
- Tube Twister
That's the one. It's really fucking clever.
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- ckyvick
- Resistor Ronker
Yeah but the op wanted a mkii bender that isn't affected by temperature changes so he could just build the si versionKHELSTROM wrote:The fact that they use the term "proprietary circuit" leads me to assume it's more than just using SI transistors.
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ckyvick wrote:Yeah but the op wanted a mkii bender that isn't affected by temperature changes so he could just build the si versionKHELSTROM wrote:The fact that they use the term "proprietary circuit" leads me to assume it's more than just using SI transistors.
It is Si
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showth ... p?t=865609
Q - Hi Lance does it have Ge old stock transistors or Silicon or hybrid? thanks
A - silicon...
We do our magic
Proprietary
stuff to make it all good...
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and you thought it was Hollis-esque.
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Might be a bit like poker-face design from our friend aquataur
Low gain Si transistors -> similar sound to Ge
Pre- and post- buffers, carefully designed not to ruin FF response
here's the link:
http://user.eduhi.at/aquataur/aquataur/ ... heory.html
Low gain Si transistors -> similar sound to Ge
Pre- and post- buffers, carefully designed not to ruin FF response
here's the link:
http://user.eduhi.at/aquataur/aquataur/ ... heory.html
- fosnal1950
- Breadboard Brother
Document contains no data !
Is there another link ?
Is there another link ?
Works for me, but let's try once more:fosnal1950 wrote:Document contains no data !
Is there another link ?
http://user.eduhi.at/aquataur/aquataur/ ... heory.html
or go to his (aquataur, he/she is user on this forum, link to his page is also in his profile) page:
http://user.eduhi.at/aquataur/aquataur/index.html
has some quite interesting articles.
hope it works now.
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so they really got some fuzz chips made?? doesn't that cost a fortune? why would you bother to do something like that other than for use as a marketing tool? ease of construction I could see, but if they are getting it all assembled smd anyway, what's the point?
oh yeah, to stop people from reverse engineering it and finding out it's most likely a Si fuzz face.
oh yeah, to stop people from reverse engineering it and finding out it's most likely a Si fuzz face.
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- KHELSTROM
- Solder Soldier
I doubt they're"fuzz chips". Probably just a matched transistor array in a SO-14 package.RnFR wrote:so they really got some fuzz chips made?? doesn't that cost a fortune? why would you bother to do something like that other than for use as a marketing tool? ease of construction I could see, but if they are getting it all assembled smd anyway, what's the point?
oh yeah, to stop people from reverse engineering it and finding out it's most likely a Si fuzz face.
Prob. like one of these:
(the ones I reference are DIP-14 packages good for us diy'ers)
4 Matched PNP, hfe 75
http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/THA ... 2bi5wyo%3D
or
2 Matched NPN hfe 100, 2 Matched PNP hfe 75
http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/THA ... kVYQ%3d%3d
These are made by "That Corp." http://www.thatcorp.com/THAT_IC_Products.shtml. It was founded by Les Tyler and Gary Hebert who both formerly worked for DBX, I know atleast one of them is a guitar player and gear head too. They actually make alot of cool audio IC's, stuff like VCA's, preamps, line drivers, line recievers. A lot of big names use their stuff too. I believe the Seymour Duncan compressor is based around one of their VCA's and DBX uses their stuff too. I actually work about 5 min from their headquarters so I stopped by about 5 months ago and got a bag of free samples. After reading about the matched transistor arrays and noticing their nice low gains I immediately thought about using them for fuzz experiments. Haven't gotten around to it yet, been really busy working on other people's gear, but hopefully I'll have time soon. Can't wait to see the pics from ibodog2 and figure this one out and verify.