Friday, July 26, 2019
Foxx Select-A-Fuzz
Happy Fuzz Friday, everybody! The Select-A-Fuzz is a pretty interesting fuzz box from Foxx. It has a rotary switch to select the input cap (the larger the cap the fuzzier the effect), followed by a Fuzz Face-esque stage and an extra gain stage. Here's the schematic for reference with some good notes on alternative transistors and voltages. D1 is silicon in the original unit, but a germanium diode will take the edge off a bit.
Works. Used the MPSA06 transistors with hfe = 175. I don't have enough gain controller, "fuzz" pot affects the frequency character. Perhaps it is worth putting pot 100K on input (as in EQD Dirt Transmitter) or replace R4-3K3 with a pot 5K (as FuzzFace). I'm going to give it a try. Sorry my english.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the "Fuzz Face-variant" is not working. A potentiometer on the input (change the volume of the guitar) works well.
DeleteThe "Fuzz Face" looks like it has a bit different circuit from what I can discern. I think the "Fuzz Face" fuzz knob would be roughly where the 3k3 resistor is on the Select-A-Fuzz...
DeleteIt remeber the seymour duncan tweek fuzz.
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