The circuit is simply two bf in series, but the second bf stage uses a germanium diode rather than the usual silicon. I finally did the bazz fuss v3 too but i didnt have much gain and the pot controls the overall volume and not the amount of the. Building a bazz fuss fuzz pedal diy strat and other guitar. I did this with the thought that i could always use my guitar volume as the gain control, but it really sounds best at full gain. May 6, 2018 bazz fuss eyelet layout transistors and beer stay safe and healthy. We can add a modification for adjusting the gain of the effect by adding a potentiometer to the circuit, a device that increases resistance as you turn the dial. The constructed version of any given circuit may have one or more deviations from the original schematic. Heres the bazz fuss from earlier but with an added volume control. Even better, make it a pot hey presto, a drive control. I added a gain control thats pretty much how it works in a fuzz face ac bypass. Simple kit, and suited to experimentation and modification. Sep 08, 20 as detailed previously in the other bazz fuss builds, i was using a single transistor which caused the signal to be gated sooner than i wanted as the transistor would close due to not having enough voltage passing across it to keep it open and allow the signal to pass. Anyway, its been a long time since i posted anything gear related. Added gain and a tone filtershaper control, which also affects some of the fuzz characteristics with respect to the frequencies being filtered.
Its a super simple build and it creates some great tones. This incredibly simple circuit is my starting point check out the sound. The light knob controls the amount of treble in the circuit and can be used to take the edge off of. Though my pedal doesnt have a ton of gain, it sounds pretty good using the. The bazz fuss effect on a breadboard with labeled controls. Is there a way to use the pot as a blend control with my dry signal. Bazz fuss clip 1 54k mp3 clip 2 93k mp3 clip 3 189k mp3. The amp is essentially the application example in the tda7267a datasheet. The heat knob controls overall gain and can take hypatia from singing, sustaining fuzz and distortion at one extreme to crunchy, textured overdrive, as its rolled back. I tried to add a gain pot to control the fuzz from the pedal rather than the vol knob on my guitar but couldnt get anything other than an annoying white noise sound so i ditched that idea. I may pull the tone control and build in a devolt for the power supply instead. Homewreckers bazz fuss page has a version of the circuit which incorporates a transformer to simulate a pickup and preserve the tone when the input signal is buffered. If you have a very low leakage pair of ge, say hfe50150 and leakage below 3050ua you can improve your bazz fuss a lot. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts.
Circuit has volume and gain controls and can be tweaked to model other existing amp characteristics e. Used in this way, it acts a bit more like a clean boost. Its certainly fun showing up at a jam session with no pedals, and then breaking into a. Bazz fuss fun im ordering parts right now to build two in series with a diode switch, muff filter, and voltage sag added to one. The first thing i did was add gain and bass controls heat and meat, which greatly expanded the versatility of the circuit. Solid, almost synthlike fuzz on tap across the volume range. Along with fuzz, it is probably the most built, purchased, and popular effects pedal type. The gain control 14 replace the jumper cable between the transistors emitter and ground with a b5k pot. Log in or sign up to leave a comment log in sign up.
Ive not got around to building anything since i put a new pickup in my strat sounds so good. Thats kind of strange, the general rating of any given bipolar transistors gain can be found by looking up hfe on the datasheets. It is two bazz fuss circuits in series, one with germanium diodes that outputs to the second circuit which uses red leds. A treble booster can be considered a type of overdrive. It also works great in front of the bad bobmini booster. I want to add a pot to my bazz fuss to control the fuzz level rather than using the vol pot on my guitar. For fuzz friday this week i give you the dusky electronics hypatia. Embarrassingly, at this point, i did some more googling and found the deluxe bazz fuss circuit which does pretty much the same thing. I know that some of the older fuzz circuits were based around low gain low hfe transistors such as the ff. This super little fuzz couldnt be easier to put together.
Might make one of these and box it up sometime in the future as i quite like single knob pedals. Building a bazz fuss fuzz pedal diy strat and other. Explore the rdiypedals subreddit on imgur, the best place to discover awesome images and gifs. Being able to summon effects from your guitar controls can inspire new musical ideas. I suggested the bazz fuss as an easy starter project. Sep 04, 2012 another application of the bazz fuss design is the buzz box, also designed by christian. Dusky electronics hypatia fuzz overdrive distortion pedal. Unlike its younger brother, the mini fuss, the fuss box comes equipped with an extremely versatile gain control. The bazz fuss is a great beginner fuzz circuit because it contains so few parts and still sounds great. Another pedal i just finished during the covid 19 confinement is a modified bazz fuss using a gbof board and 3pdt board. The circuit produces a nasty in a good way, explosive octaveup fuzz similar to the scrambler and green ringer.
Hmmm, if i hook up the tone control as diagramed i get no change in tone. Although ive successfully built it, im not sure how exactly it works. It has a tone control on the input and a master volume. Again, compare the layout with the schematic and be sure that you understand how the control works. There are low gain, 12 gain, and high gain overdrives. As this pedal would be used for mostly bass, i decided to go with revision 3. Hemmotim escobedo bazz fuss heres a diy classic, tweak the diodes, tweak the input and output caps, tweak everything. Big muff tone control beavis audio stompboxed the guitar pedal builders repository. Bazz fuss because it was originally conceived as a bass effect. The gain is pretty darned high, so it distorts along with the diode clipping. I built the bazz fuss circuit onto my breadboard and implemented the modifications discussed in the specification list. Seems like a really easy project that still offers a fat stack of fun optionsgood for a building noob like myself. Germanium darlington bazz fuss with gain control reddit. It gaves a nice kick to the final gain and increase the brightness, but the bazz fuss spirit is lost.
It arrived in late 1966, in its iconic big, red and round enclosure. Gain control mod for the 7 min fuzz bazz fuss buy a 7 min fuzz kit here. The gain and tone pots are changed to and the rest of. Jan 29, 2019 i have been playing around with my american fuzz pedal by substituting different transistors for q.
Or you can just swipe a populated circuit board from any number of diy pedal kits. Can you think of any other examples of recentcurrent offerings that based on the bazz fuss circuit. Since this is a highly dynamic circuit, i get all the gain control i need just by adjusting boosts, treble boosters, and onetransistor fuzzes such as the bazz fuss. Feb 14, 2014 gain control mod for the 7 min fuzz bazz fuss buy a 7 min fuzz kit here. The hemmos bazz fuss is one of the best sounding, yet easiest to build fuzz circuits in existence. With it you can dial in some killer fuzz all the way down to the tiniest amount of clipping imaginable.
The bass version, the bassweet, can also be built on this board with just a few value changes. Im wanting to know how i would exchange the volume. Oct 21, 2012 if you check out this webpage bazz fuss fun, youll see that there are a few different variations on the circuit. What im going to call the bulk fuzz is a variant on a popular diy project known as the bazz fuss. I figured that the 3rd gain stage transistor really didnt matter except for the overall volume of the pedal, but changes at q1 and q2 might make a difference. Apr 21, 2018 this is a bazz fuss circuit i made from some easy to source and cheap to fund components.
Bazz fuss circuit with switchable clipping diodes, volume and gain pots, and an. Its only 5 components and a pot and it sounds good too. The first fuzz face was the one that started it all. The above perfboard layout, while drawn for the bazz fuss v1, can be easily adapted for use with the v2 or v3 simply by using sockets for the capacitors, transistor, and diode. A little more conventional, with low impedance driving a filter. Bazz fuss eyelet layout transistors and beer diy guitar. Also, doublecheck that you have the pins in the correct spots. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and. The bazz fuss has an infinitely more aggressive, modern heavy seem into it, as the fuzz face compared is much more of the noisy, chaotic fuzz thats both very versatile and attentive to style of.
But i wanted to be able to experiment with caps, so i built this box with some recycled parts, i also made it so that i could probably swap out other circuits to try out in a similar way using mostly sockets on everything. Apr 05, 2018 the hemmos bazz fuss is one of the best sounding, yet easiest to build fuzz circuits in existence. It is two bazz fuss circuits in series, one with germanium diodes that outputs to the. The original design, by christian holmberg aka hemmo p, is so basic that it only requires 2 capacitors, 1 transistor, 1 resistor and a single diode. Anyways, its deffo going on my board so happy days. Some people set the gain dirt control to zero and max out the volume control. You already gathered from the title that a gain control is not a volume knob so what is it. I figured the bazz would be a great place to darlingtonup these lowgainers.
Ive read that fuzz pedals can sound odd or lifeless if a buffer or other boost is placed in the signal chain in front of them. Has anyone else experimented with the transistors in the american fuzz. May 10, 2012 the bazz fuss has an infinitely more aggressive, modern heavy seem into it, as the fuzz face compared is much more of the noisy, chaotic fuzz thats both very versatile and attentive to style of. Feb 20, 2014 anyone know of any bazz fuss mods that help with sustain issues. Its a nice front end for the bazz fuss as well, providing bass cut and drive controls. Is there a dual fuzz pedal that has a big muff on one side. Automatic gain control agc, is a closedloop feedback regulating circuit in an amplifier or chain of amplifiers, the purpose of which is to maintain a suitable signal amplitude at its output, despite variation of the signal amplitude at the input. The bc108 is a higher gain 125 900 than the 2n3904 100 300, so it looks like some parts in your circuit may need tweaking. The bazz fuss is a superb beginner fuzz circuit since it contains so couple of parts but still sounds. Pqs most gain effectsboosters, distortions, fuzzes, and compressorshave relatively low current draw, and unlike ambient and modulation effects, they can still sound great when the battery starts to lose its charge. Im also in the process of building a bazz fuss v3 pedal so i thought i could put that little circuit in the amp to have an overdrive channel. Building a tda7267a guitar amplifier with overdrive.
About a month passed after building the bazz fuss, and i was using it as my main fuzz during that time. After testing the combinations of sounds that could be achieved using the controls i have decided that the gate knob will not be on the final pedal as when combined with the other modifications it did not create the desired. Building a bazz fuss fuzz pedal diy guitar pedal, guitar pedals. The circuit has a boardmounted pot for minimal wiring and simple enclosure mounting. Get ready for a crash course in amplifier gain controls. I am relatively new to the world of guitar pedals, and i have recently after a few failed attempts built a successful bazz fuss. I am extremely new to this and im still trying to learn why what parts do what. A great car audio system requires proper tuning and gain controls are a big part of that.
First, lets take a step back and understand the amplifiers structure. Mar 04, 2012 hemmotim escobedo bazz fuss heres a diy classic, tweak the diodes, tweak the input and output caps, tweak everything. The tones a marshall head combined with a good germanium fuzz face produce can verge on divine. A fellow brother in arms has asked me to modify his version of the janglebox for a volume control recently, so i thought id po. As you may be aware, ive recently been helping my friend adam with a few guitar projects and he was keen to get started on pedal making specifically a fuzz pedal. Im also in the process of building a bazz fuss v3 pedal so i thought i could put that little circuit in the amp to have an overdrive channel the idea is to put the bazz fuss in front of the tda7267a and use a switch to bypass it for the clean. I also added a tone control which acts as a low pass filter. The bazz fuss has a much more aggressive, modern heavy sound to it, while the fuzz face in comparison is more of a noisy, chaotic fuzz thats both very versatile and responsive to playing style. Lucketts circuit is the same thing as in the fat bastard, where the gain pot is the resistance for the high pass filter i referred to. I re read the directions and re installed multiple times. Ive been bread boarding some bazz fuss variations and am going to do a build with the mpsa and 1914 diode. This allowed bizarre octaveup effects with tone high and big muffesque tones when low. How you connect the tone cap and potentiometer to the volume control has a huge.
Fig bazz fuss deluxe layout used in the previous project korg stomp vocaloid guitar effects. So i have decided to try my second veroboard build on a bazz fuss. Another application of the bazz fuss design is the buzz box, also designed by christian. Its based on the bazz fuss, but with a whole lot more control added gain stages and buffers.
Each circuit has its own gain control and the idea is that balancing the gains. I know the circuit is a modified fuzz not wrong circuit, with an extra gain stage after the fuzz control. This is a write up of the second of my two recently completed projects. Update germanium darlington bazz fuss with gain control. The meat control adjusts the lowend of the gain circuit, producing a synthlike square wave all the way up and then melting to reveal refined upper mids and highs as it is dialed back, bringing the gain closer to traditional overdrivelike character. Bazz fuss transistor substitute telecaster guitar forum. Each circuit has its own gain control and the idea is that balancing the gains will blend the two fuzzes. I made a deluxe version with a dirt and thickness control as well as the volume. Nov 15, 2019 for fuzz friday this week i give you the dusky electronics hypatia. Clean sounds in the middle of the clip are the hj, gain still max, guitar vol. Does anybody know of any mods to help give more sustain for higher notes. Based off of the hemmo bazz fuss, this pedal boasts massive output with gain galore.
Kit is available with a standard sized 1590b enclosure. This is a bazzfuzz with a big muff tone control with no volume or gain. Adding resistance to the emitter of the 7 min fuzz transistor will reduce the gain of the circuit. May 18, 2014 based off of the hemmo bazz fuss, this pedal boasts massive output with gain galore. Gonna be building it again on a board and hope this time i do it perfectly. A minor difference is my gain control doesnt crackle. Oct 28, 2014 other circuits that work well with no knobs include orange squeezerstyle compressors, fuzz faces, clean jfet and mosfetbased boosts, treble boosters, and onetransistor fuzzes such as the bazz fuss.
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