Monday 2 January 2023

Dylan159's Boot Fuzz

2023. How the heck are we still alive.. No matter. Let's do another layout or two. This time, another nice, loud little circuit from Dylan159's Unrealeased Circuits - From the source:
Boot Fuzz. I found this simple old-school microphone preamp, and noticed the similarity with the Fuzz Face, also claimed to be based around a microphone preamp, but in this case the second stage is an emitter follower bootstrapping the load of the first for big gains. So I thought why not fuzzing it up by increasing the gain? This ends up being similar to an Escobedo circuit, but with a different, more stable biasing. 


4 comments:

  1. Always glad to be here!
    Some more backstory on this one: it's a mangled project 13 from sound-au (any excuse to name that great site) which I built and use as better preamplifier for my portable recorder. That was the inspiration to turn it into a fuzz.

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  2. really nice, built it from scrapped parts except one transistor and one resistor

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  3. Been building pedals from this site for about 2 years now ( built over 40 and boxed 21) and started to get a bit more adventurous. Mark this one as verified, worked first go and sounds quite good. I've also done a layout of the "Violets are Blues" schematic from the link mentioned in the intro above and it sounds very good. I will try to post it on the forum if thats OK.

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