

Here’s my attempt to “decompose” it: Silicon Fuzz Face schematic (click for larger image) Volume Control It is a deceptively complex to analyze though. The simplest effect I did had just a couple of components less. The effect is super simple – 2 transistors, 2 pots, 4 resistors and 3 capacitors. The pedal used BC109C and BC108C transistors among others, but I’m pretty confident nearly any NPN transistor (with enough gain) will work (the question is only how good will they sound and behave when played). It uses NPN transistors, BC109 in the schematic. In the above schematic, I kind of used the simplest one. If you look it up, there are several versions of the Fuzz Face. I used couple of websites for getting the schematic, here’s the schematic for the effect: Silicon Fuzz Face Schematic Used most famously by Jimi Hendrix, but essentially used by many others like Gilmour, SRV etc.Įven more specifically 🙂, I’ll be doing a clone of silicon version of it, something similar that Gilmour used on The Dark Side of the Moon album. In the next couple of posts, I’ll build a guitar fuzz pedal.
