Sunflower Fuzz

Well it's useless unless you want to use more than one pedal. The whole point of adding a positive ground power supply running off a regular negative ground power supply is convenience. With a few power supplies these days you can mimic the effects of a cheap battery by reducing the voltage going to the pedal. The benefit can be tonal - you can dial in the exact amount of crapitude you want and its easily repeatable. If you rely on the "sagging voltage battery" you may get a great tone - until the battery finally craps out.

And copyright isn't an issue in these pedals. Analogman is just using an ancient Fuzz Face circuit with a few simple, common-knowledge kind of modifications.
 
Well it's useless unless you want to use more than one pedal. The whole point of adding a positive ground power supply running off a regular negative ground power supply is convenience. With a few power supplies these days you can mimic the effects of a cheap battery by reducing the voltage going to the pedal. The benefit can be tonal - you can dial in the exact amount of crapitude you want and its easily repeatable. If you rely on the "sagging voltage battery" you may get a great tone - until the battery finally craps out.

And copyright isn't an issue in these pedals. Analogman is just using an ancient Fuzz Face circuit with a few simple, common-knowledge kind of modifications.
I also have a vintage fuzz face that I use with battery that’s why I said it’s useless for me.
 
If the diode is removed, there is nothing protecting the circuit from reverse polarity. It's really easy to accidentally touch the terminals of the battery connector backward. There should be some method of polarity protection (diode in series, parallel, MOSFET, etc.).
I don't know why this on my mind after 4 and a half years (🤪), but if I pull the jumper I have for D1, and add the 1N5817 listed on the build doc, it will be protected from me accidentally touching the wrong battery terminals?
 
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