Thanks Josh, for another fascinating instructional video. I’ve said it here before, but I’m a 62 year old civil engineer. Though, I’m very comfortable in my world (math, structural analysis, etc), electronics have always baffled me. That said, I love learning new things and really enjoy your videos. You’re a wealth of knowledge and quite good at teach it to others. Great job and thanks again!
This channel is amazing, you get to hang out with a master crafts man, learn cool stuff, try it your self and people win awaome prizes! My favourite place to be once the kids are asleep!!!!!
I’d like to thank you and Wampler for getting me into breadboarding and building my own pedals. I’ve been making two-in-one treble booster/fuzz face pedals. You guys really help a beginner understand the basics of what’s going on with these circuits.
I wish I saw this two days ago 🙂 I just spent several days figuring this all out. I built a Tone Bender MK1.5 slash Fuzz Face Fuzz pedal on a bread board. These are great videos looking forward to the PNP fuzz circuit! 👍
I swear, if I end up learning this circuit stuff enough to start building pedals, versus simply buying JHS, Keeley, Wampler, Beetronics, Boss et al pedals,…I swear I going to loose my freaking mind! lol. I had one of those rudimentary circuit kits as a kid of about 10-12,…around the time the Commadore 64 came out,…and I did not learn how to do circuits. I don’t need this nerd crapacitor info in my head. But dammit Josh Scott, your educational videos are getting addictive. I watched 1.5-2 hours last week of you trying to build that broken fuzz Stew Mac kit and darn near lost it when it still didn’t work! The most frustratingly relaxing Friday evening in a long time! 😂
I've been putting off building one for a couple years, but I have so many scalped components and inherited a ton of 1970s/80s era parts from a friends audio system install/repair shop that it's actually ridiculous I haven't built like 20 pedals yet. just intimidated, so thank you for this push at it.
I guess I was fortunate... my Sunfuzz I built a month or so ago worked first time, despite me letting my 14 year old grandson do the majority of the soldering on the PCB. He must have had a good teacher LOL. 😊😅. I did the paint job as seen in the pic in my review on the Stewmac website. (5 kits sitting on my scratch built 5E3.) Santa brought me the Ghost Drive for Christmas. I may have to buy a Notaklon for comparison. As a relatively new pedal builder... I've learned a lot watching your videos. The failed fuzz build (hopefully) taught a lot of folks about trouble shooting. Some of the crazy or duplicate suggestions proved that some folks were just not paying attention. I think you did an awesome job of maintaining your composure under stress! 😅😂Keep up the great work!
Why can you not have a -belated giveaway for guys like me who seem to always miss the live shows? Would adore winning a London Fuzz. Let us begin... call me😂 Glenn Snoddy will always have a soft place in my heart for Fuzz invention.
Thank you for letting us know that you survived the foggy circuit breakdown on the previous show. Glad to see you made it to the other side. Had full confidence in you - especially with Robert Keeley on the phone in equal conundrum flummox. Cheers/ Slainte for 2025. God bless you and your great team for the teaching, smiles and Pedals… Roctor in love and peace forever
This is what I dreamed of when I first started watching you. Now I know most of this stuff. Well, the schematic pieces. I couldn’t pick which NPN transistor to use from memory, but yeah. Still it’s amazing watching this workflow. It both validates what I do on my table in my home office (hidden from Zoom) and gives me ideas. I’ll admit. I tried a fuzz face as my first breadboard to enclosed pedal thinking fewer parts = easier and failed miserably. An OpAmp overdrive or distortion is much harder to screw up. You don’t have to measure every part (mostly). An oddball recommendation if you do want a simple OpAmp circuit is the original Muff Fuzz. Not the OpAmp Big Muff (bla bla Smashing Pumpkins) but the ill fated single OpAmp “fuzz.” Never seen one in real life, but I’ve built a few from the schematic I’ve seen and tweaked values on. It’s kinda like a cranked RAT. Somewhere between distortion and fuzz. Terrible and beautiful.
Not surprised about the board. Out of the 50 or so boards ive built out over the past year or so, I found 2 boards (2 were pedalpcb board) that had broken traces internally. He did take care of me in this situation, but just goes to show that the unlikely scenarios sometimes happen
I believe the function of the caps after the input and before the output are to block DC current from the signal. The effect on the frequency response is secondary.
Gimme a FACE so I can FUZZ it! I wish I could get that pink cursed fuzz… Damn, I missed this episode. Not that I understand all these tech talk, but I would love to be the lucky one and get the pink guy… Next time, I hope…
Does the "half the voltage to the transistor" rule also apply to Fuzzrites, Tonebenders etc? After your Third Man Fuzzrite video i assembled a kit from Fuzzdog. Love the sound of that Fuzzrite kit. Would love to see more of that one
My Christmas gift to myself was the JHS 3 series Fuzz (the Notaklön and reverb were lonely) and I believe it sounds better than the cursed fuzz. Love the channel love the products!
Just 🙏 Thank You! Will you make a vid with the pnp-version? I’ve made a PCB of that circuit in Kicad and i am aware of the polarity and PNP trannies but it just won’t work. I’m thinking wrong somewhere. I love this format. You can just watch the vid and follow along piece by piece like a braindead fool and build the circuit and get it to work. THEN you can do the thinking and watch the vid again in the background and actually listen and thinking about the circuit. I’ve learned electronics, kicad and have built a modular synth with youtube as my only teacher. Nah, i own one book actually. ”Make Analogue Synthesizers” by Ray Wilson. AMAZING book if you want to understand what’s actually happening in audio circuits. It’s cheap too, 15$ maybe. It’s a great time we live in with all this free knowledge. Thruu my learning experience i always misses vids like this though. This is so helpful. It’s not about learning this specific circuit, that’s just a bonus really. If you’re thinking about trying this out, just do it!! You will make it. If you get really stuck somewhere, just put that project to the side and move on to your next circuit. Or bin it and start over! The practical side of electronics is very logic, simple and often intuitive. Anyone can do it! If anybody is interested in this kind of stuff but with synthesizers i recommend that you check out Moritz Klein here on YT. Aaron Lantermann is a professor in electronics with his whole courses uploaded to YT. He Teaches courses in amp/pedal/synth-building… Thank you Josh. Please never quit this series. I look forward to the rat-episodes. That circuit is 😎. I call my version Splinter.
I dont like that low pass transistor on the switch. Personal preference i know. The 5k transistor for 4.6v was crazy though. I would have like to hear more resistance options in the lower transistor before stopping
Heres a question for next time maybe. Im wondering if you could put a similar circuit together using the kind of transistors that have, instead of "EBC" pins, rather, "Gate, Source and Drain" are these FET I believe, Im a novice but are these compatible with this Fuzz Face type circuit? Other transistor fuzz circuits?
Josh is really quite incredible. Most businesses will do whatever they can do to shut down their competitors, but here's Josh giving up his time and energy to actively train possible competitors and teach them how to properly build his product, and all for the love of the game. Of course, I have a theory, he's running out of pedals to collect so he's trying to get people to make new pedals so he can keep getting that endorphin hit of finding and buying new pedals. Either way, what a champ.
Germanium transistors absolutely sound better in a fuzz face. The only way I can explain it is it’s like there’s more information there. I’ve done lots of tests and Even the worst cheapest germanium transistor with the lowest gain sounds better than the best silicone transistor.
FYI Smallbear has a How To on their site that shows EXACTLY how to breadboard a Fuzz Face circuit. They show you STEP BY STEP, PIECE BY PIECE, PICTURE BY PICTURE. Its even easier than this. All you have to do is look at their picture and place your components exactly where theirs are. 🤦🤦🤦
Thanks Josh, for another fascinating instructional video.
I’ve said it here before, but I’m a 62 year old civil engineer. Though, I’m very comfortable in my world (math, structural analysis, etc), electronics have always baffled me.
That said, I love learning new things and really enjoy your videos. You’re a wealth of knowledge and quite good at teach it to others. Great job and thanks again!
This channel is amazing, you get to hang out with a master crafts man, learn cool stuff, try it your self and people win awaome prizes! My favourite place to be once the kids are asleep!!!!!
I’d like to thank you and Wampler for getting me into breadboarding and building my own pedals. I’ve been making two-in-one treble booster/fuzz face pedals. You guys really help a beginner understand the basics of what’s going on with these circuits.
Josh has reached a level of cool that gifts him vocal fuzz
Built-in bit crusher.
I wish I saw this two days ago 🙂 I just spent several days figuring this all out. I built a Tone Bender MK1.5 slash Fuzz Face Fuzz pedal on a bread board. These are great videos looking forward to the PNP fuzz circuit! 👍
I absolutely love this series!!! thanks for the knowledge!!
Fun way to start my Saturday morning.
I swear, if I end up learning this circuit stuff enough to start building pedals, versus simply buying JHS, Keeley, Wampler, Beetronics, Boss et al pedals,…I swear I going to loose my freaking mind! lol. I had one of those rudimentary circuit kits as a kid of about 10-12,…around the time the Commadore 64 came out,…and I did not learn how to do circuits. I don’t need this nerd crapacitor info in my head. But dammit Josh Scott, your educational videos are getting addictive. I watched 1.5-2 hours last week of you trying to build that broken fuzz Stew Mac kit and darn near lost it when it still didn’t work! The most frustratingly relaxing Friday evening in a long time! 😂
Missed it live again, but I’m excited for this one
excellent josh one of first clones i put together fuzz face forever
I've been putting off building one for a couple years, but I have so many scalped components and inherited a ton of 1970s/80s era parts from a friends audio system install/repair shop that it's actually ridiculous I haven't built like 20 pedals yet. just intimidated, so thank you for this push at it.
I guess I was fortunate... my Sunfuzz I built a month or so ago worked first time, despite me letting my 14 year old grandson do the majority of the soldering on the PCB. He must have had a good teacher LOL. 😊😅. I did the paint job as seen in the pic in my review on the Stewmac website. (5 kits sitting on my scratch built 5E3.) Santa brought me the Ghost Drive for Christmas. I may have to buy a Notaklon for comparison. As a relatively new pedal builder... I've learned a lot watching your videos. The failed fuzz build (hopefully) taught a lot of folks about trouble shooting. Some of the crazy or duplicate suggestions proved that some folks were just not paying attention. I think you did an awesome job of maintaining your composure under stress! 😅😂Keep up the great work!
Josh, kudos. Just slamming that sweet sweet Fuzz Face knowledge straight into the brain-pan today! Thanks a ton!
Why can you not have a -belated giveaway for guys like me who seem to always miss the live shows? Would adore winning a London Fuzz. Let us begin... call me😂
Glenn Snoddy will always have a soft place in my heart for Fuzz invention.
Thank you for letting us know that you survived the foggy circuit breakdown on the previous show. Glad to see you made it to the other side. Had full confidence in you - especially with Robert Keeley on the phone in equal conundrum flummox. Cheers/ Slainte for 2025. God bless you and your great team for the teaching, smiles and Pedals…
Roctor in love and peace forever
I concur. I'm in a completely different timezone so always miss the livestreams.
Yes! Free stuff for all of us!😠
This is what I dreamed of when I first started watching you. Now I know most of this stuff. Well, the schematic pieces. I couldn’t pick which NPN transistor to use from memory, but yeah. Still it’s amazing watching this workflow. It both validates what I do on my table in my home office (hidden from Zoom) and gives me ideas.
I’ll admit. I tried a fuzz face as my first breadboard to enclosed pedal thinking fewer parts = easier and failed miserably. An OpAmp overdrive or distortion is much harder to screw up. You don’t have to measure every part (mostly).
An oddball recommendation if you do want a simple OpAmp circuit is the original Muff Fuzz. Not the OpAmp Big Muff (bla bla Smashing Pumpkins) but the ill fated single OpAmp “fuzz.” Never seen one in real life, but I’ve built a few from the schematic I’ve seen and tweaked values on. It’s kinda like a cranked RAT. Somewhere between distortion and fuzz. Terrible and beautiful.
Not surprised about the board. Out of the 50 or so boards ive built out over the past year or so, I found 2 boards (2 were pedalpcb board) that had broken traces internally. He did take care of me in this situation, but just goes to show that the unlikely scenarios sometimes happen
Thank you Josh
YES YES YES !!!!The mach 1.5 Tone Bender...I'm so excited I can't wait!!!!!
Josh i love this video... You're a pro in the game (and your pedals are great).
I like design, quality and sound...
(And names 😜)
I sooo needed this push to get out the old bread board and build a fuzz face with switchable bias. ❤
Video starts at 6:59
You're my hero ❤
fixed. this is now incorrect.
Something about that statement makes me laugh really hard.@@jhspedals
Thanks
This was perfect, I'm looking to build a fuzz face after building a true bypass fx looper. Thanks for sharing the knowledge!!
so happy to be getting into this fuzz face deep dive. Thanks Josh!
It’s NOTASMILEY until you build it!
Man, I'd love a pedal with that sound from the beginning!
Imagine waking up one morning and your ground plane is floating all over the place
I'm looking to build a fuzz face this is perfect thank you for sharing the knowledge!!
Josh, I’m sure glad you found the problem with the StewMac kit board. I know it was frustrating for you during the Live broadcast.
👍😎👍🎸
I believe the function of the caps after the input and before the output are to block DC current from the signal. The effect on the frequency response is secondary.
Yes. I've covered this in detail on prior episodes
Cool. I just started watching a few episodes ago. Love it.
Absolutely brilliant :)
Gimme a FACE so I can FUZZ it!
I wish I could get that pink cursed fuzz…
Damn, I missed this episode. Not that I understand all these tech talk, but I would love to be the lucky one and get the pink guy… Next time, I hope…
Brian Wampler would be proud. 👍
New JHS Vocal Fuzz pedal at the start of Steam?😃 The Gargluzz Supreme
Does the "half the voltage to the transistor" rule also apply to Fuzzrites, Tonebenders etc?
After your Third Man Fuzzrite video i assembled a kit from Fuzzdog. Love the sound of that Fuzzrite kit. Would love to see more of that one
You’re going to have to review/comment on the new Berhinger pedals eventually. I’m interested in your take.
Im going to go broke with all the ideas from jhs
My Christmas gift to myself was the JHS 3 series Fuzz (the Notaklön and reverb were lonely) and I believe it sounds better than the cursed fuzz. Love the channel love the products!
Live From Kansas City…. It’s Friday Night surprise stream!!!!
Aweright Josh. I had a s### Christmas, i had the flu like most of scotland.. be safe.
Very interesting even watching this after the fact! Does anyone use LTspice to help get a sense for how the circuit interactions work?
22nd December is my Daughters birthday - do I get the giveaway? It would be my first pedal! Love the show.
Just 🙏 Thank You!
Will you make a vid with the pnp-version? I’ve made a PCB of that circuit in Kicad and i am aware of the polarity and PNP trannies but it just won’t work. I’m thinking wrong somewhere.
I love this format. You can just watch the vid and follow along piece by piece like a braindead fool and build the circuit and get it to work. THEN you can do the thinking and watch the vid again in the background and actually listen and thinking about the circuit.
I’ve learned electronics, kicad and have built a modular synth with youtube as my only teacher. Nah, i own one book actually. ”Make Analogue Synthesizers” by Ray Wilson. AMAZING book if you want to understand what’s actually happening in audio circuits. It’s cheap too, 15$ maybe.
It’s a great time we live in with all this free knowledge.
Thruu my learning experience i always misses vids like this though. This is so helpful. It’s not about learning this specific circuit, that’s just a bonus really.
If you’re thinking about trying this out, just do it!! You will make it. If you get really stuck somewhere, just put that project to the side and move on to your next circuit. Or bin it and start over!
The practical side of electronics is very logic, simple and often intuitive. Anyone can do it!
If anybody is interested in this kind of stuff but with synthesizers i recommend that you check out Moritz Klein here on YT.
Aaron Lantermann is a professor in electronics with his whole courses uploaded to YT. He Teaches courses in amp/pedal/synth-building…
Thank you Josh. Please never quit this series. I look forward to the rat-episodes. That circuit is 😎. I call my version Splinter.
I dont like that low pass transistor on the switch. Personal preference i know. The 5k transistor for 4.6v was crazy though. I would have like to hear more resistance options in the lower transistor before stopping
That's the beauty of breadboarding. Build your one and do what you want!
7:07. You’re welcome
Thank you!
Fixed!
Respect on the El Pato pencil holder. #tava
“Reverse polarity, from the north…”. - Rush
Josh, That's my favorite Color. !! Austin please pick me.
Are the power supply cables custom?
would love a soul food ehx mod.
Heres a question for next time maybe. Im wondering if you could put a similar circuit together using the kind of transistors that have, instead of "EBC" pins, rather, "Gate, Source and Drain" are these FET I believe, Im a novice but are these compatible with this Fuzz Face type circuit? Other transistor fuzz circuits?
Sounds like it’s in the signal path with voice and guitar.
Gibs us the secret sauce recipe. 🤘🎸
Is there any Coppersound distributors in Europe other than musikding?
You would do this in front of audiophiles… lol.
Josh is really quite incredible. Most businesses will do whatever they can do to shut down their competitors, but here's Josh giving up his time and energy to actively train possible competitors and teach them how to properly build his product, and all for the love of the game. Of course, I have a theory, he's running out of pedals to collect so he's trying to get people to make new pedals so he can keep getting that endorphin hit of finding and buying new pedals. Either way, what a champ.
Sounds smiley.
Father was watching Linus Tech tips for a second
Germanium transistors absolutely sound better in a fuzz face. The only way I can explain it is it’s like there’s more information there. I’ve done lots of tests and Even the worst cheapest germanium transistor with the lowest gain sounds better than the best silicone transistor.
I've heard, played, and repaired garbage sounding Ge fuzz faces. 🤔
Clipping and slap echo on your voice Josh. Hard to handle
FYI Smallbear has a How To on their site that shows EXACTLY how to breadboard a Fuzz Face circuit. They show you STEP BY STEP, PIECE BY PIECE, PICTURE BY PICTURE.
Its even easier than this. All you have to do is look at their picture and place your components exactly where theirs are. 🤦🤦🤦
Ì want to build a pedal so much.....soon
Short circuit ?
It's not live anymore. I lost the giveways
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I gotta be honest, it doesn't sound good to me at all. Fun watch though.
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