A. Russell, Fuzz Box, in: Practical Electronics - May 1972 🇬🇧
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Schmitt trigger fuzz, huh? I don't think I've seen this one before. thanks! one more for freefuzzboxes.org!!
btw- I love the last paragraph. they always had those "warnings" in these old magazine articles.
btw- I love the last paragraph. they always had those "warnings" in these old magazine articles.
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I built this one back in 1972, talk about bringing back memories.
Politics is the art of so plucking the goose as to obtain the most feathers with the least squawking. - R.G. 2011
Jeez, she's an ugly bastard, she makes my socks hurt. I hope it's no ones missus here. - Ice-9 2012
Jeez, she's an ugly bastard, she makes my socks hurt. I hope it's no ones missus here. - Ice-9 2012
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Me too. It sounded horrible then and even worse now! I found my old 0.15" pitch Veroboard version of this thing recently, and tried it out. I quickly realised why it never got put into a box!deltafred wrote:I built this one back in 1972, talk about bringing back memories.
"Why is it humming?" "Because it doesn't know the words!"
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It's all coming back now, 0.15 verobaord that was made with really dark brown paxolin.mictester wrote: It sounded horrible then and even worse now! I found my old 0.15" pitch Veroboard version of this thing recently, and tried it out.
Do I remember correctly, was the 2N2926 colour coded according to gain, with the (G) versions having a green spot on them. It's a long time ago!
I think I still have mine somewhere, and I boxed it up, but cannot locate it but as far as I recall it was pretty nasty sounding.
I am sure someone will like the sound of it, it is maybe what Guitar Carl is looking for to give the "I want it to sound like bees buzzing around in a 55 gallon drum..." sound.
Politics is the art of so plucking the goose as to obtain the most feathers with the least squawking. - R.G. 2011
Jeez, she's an ugly bastard, she makes my socks hurt. I hope it's no ones missus here. - Ice-9 2012
Jeez, she's an ugly bastard, she makes my socks hurt. I hope it's no ones missus here. - Ice-9 2012
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Does it have any controls? Maybe I'm blind but I see nothing on the schemo...
Thanks for it, you did those scans? Can I use it on my websie?
Cheers
Thanks for it, you did those scans? Can I use it on my websie?
Cheers
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There are no controls! I put a 50k log pot on the output to tame it a bit, and wired a DPDT switch for "true bypass". It's still crap!sinner wrote:Does it have any controls? Maybe I'm blind but I see nothing on the schemo...
Thanks for it, you did those scans? Can I use it on my website?
Cheers
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Thanks Chrismictester wrote:
There are no controls! I put a 50k log pot on the output to tame it a bit, and wired a DPDT switch for "true bypass".
so I'll pass, fuck itmictester wrote:It's still crap!
Yeah I scanned it, use it if you want, any scan from a magazine or whatever is fair game for use by anyone once it's uploaded.sinner wrote:Does it have any controls? Maybe I'm blind but I see nothing on the schemo...
Thanks for it, you did those scans? Can I use it on my websie?
Cheers
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I guarantee it can be tweaked to sound cool....and you can be sure, I won't "over indulge" !
thanx for posting this. it's great to see an odd one
thanx for posting this. it's great to see an odd one
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btw, the BC169 has pretty high gain (380 min)for the time.
http://transistor-spravochnik.ru/descri ... 169c/23728
the 2N2926 has hfe min 100.
http://transistor-spravochnik.ru/descri ... 926-g/2670
http://transistor-spravochnik.ru/descri ... 169c/23728
the 2N2926 has hfe min 100.
http://transistor-spravochnik.ru/descri ... 926-g/2670
Although that does look sort of familiar, I thought it had a few more components.
I had a look for it today , And turned up loads of cool stuff ( which I'll have to scan and post here ofcourse !)
But, It's hiding from me for the moment.
I had a look for it today , And turned up loads of cool stuff ( which I'll have to scan and post here ofcourse !)
But, It's hiding from me for the moment.
- Renegadrian
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The links in the first post are missing, I guess from the description that it's the same Schematic I made a vero layout of...so here the schem
and my layout - please note that my layout is for CBE transistors!
and my layout - please note that my layout is for CBE transistors!
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I edited the first post, which only contained dead image links
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Is my layout correct!?
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Yes, it is correct but the pin order of the transitors in the schematic is E-C-B in the layout C-B-E.