Guilherme Collateral
Well-known member
Here in Brasil we have the sad tradition of trying to copy USA fashion in lots of areas… music, movies, sports, politics (
) and gear. And most of the times it makes no sense at all… like, we have some unique and beautiful wood but people here import Ash and Maple to build guitars. And guitarrists here import lots of fuzzes from USA, specially germanium stuff. And, well, for the most part, our climate is really different… most of repairs I have done on imported Germanium fuzzes were related to changing transistors or re-biasing them, simply because the temperature where it was made and where it was being used is too different.
Though the years I spent a lot of money on germanium transistors and I have hundreds of thousands of various models from Japan, USA, Germany, UK, URSS, you name it, and have loads of low leakage germs that are really stable and sound awesome on hot days and also on the coldest we have around here; so I decided to make a Fuzz Face derived fine tuned to the tropical weather. I went full mojo on this project, 1/2W Allen-Bradley carbon comps, Philips axial polarized and a plethora of different transistors, all following the low leakage rule. The led resistor is a smd under the board and I also have a 220pf smd RF capacitor from input to ground and pads for B-C capacitors if I have any weird noises or excessive treble. I’m really pleased with this project, both on looks and sound, and I hope you guys enjoy it too!
) and gear. And most of the times it makes no sense at all… like, we have some unique and beautiful wood but people here import Ash and Maple to build guitars. And guitarrists here import lots of fuzzes from USA, specially germanium stuff. And, well, for the most part, our climate is really different… most of repairs I have done on imported Germanium fuzzes were related to changing transistors or re-biasing them, simply because the temperature where it was made and where it was being used is too different.Though the years I spent a lot of money on germanium transistors and I have hundreds of thousands of various models from Japan, USA, Germany, UK, URSS, you name it, and have loads of low leakage germs that are really stable and sound awesome on hot days and also on the coldest we have around here; so I decided to make a Fuzz Face derived fine tuned to the tropical weather. I went full mojo on this project, 1/2W Allen-Bradley carbon comps, Philips axial polarized and a plethora of different transistors, all following the low leakage rule. The led resistor is a smd under the board and I also have a 220pf smd RF capacitor from input to ground and pads for B-C capacitors if I have any weird noises or excessive treble. I’m really pleased with this project, both on looks and sound, and I hope you guys enjoy it too!
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