Holiday PIF Fuzz and Dr. Boogie

[jprizz]

I was fortunate enough to be the lucky recipient of a pair of transistors as part of the holiday PIF goodness from JakeFuzz (Paul). Long story short: I stumbled into pedal building accidentally. I am not a fuzz pedal user to begin with but for whatever reason when I found out you can do DIY pedals I wanted to try and clone a Hartman GE fuzz pedal. So here is my attempt.

Paul paired up a Mullard era General Electric (the British GE not the American one) GET113 in Q1 and a goldpin HEC 2N404 in Q2 to get me to that Hartman tone. The only modifications I made was to add the pre-gain mod and socket C3 for easy tweaking. I shamelessly copied the Hartman look too. Enclosure is Hammond 1590D finished in transparent copper from PPP. This finish MUST be done on a Hammond enclosure! My knock-off enclosure in this finish can not even compare.

This is my first fuzz so I'm not sure what, if anything I need to tweak. Time and playing will tell. A big THANK YOU goes out to Paul for his holiday spirit!

-Josh

[jprizz]

guts

[jprizz]

Dr. Boogie: straight forward here. Friend made the white vinyl sticker for me. Sounds mean.

[jprizz]

guts

[fish22]

sweet!

I LOVE the Dr. Boogie. The decal and matte black look great IMO!
I really need to build one of those.

[wolfingsworth]

Top notch! The wiring in the fuzz is outstanding!

[jimilee]

Man, that's great!

[midwayfair]

Excellent work.

Hartman's Ge fuzz is what led me to want a Fuzz Face on my board. My local guitar center had one for $90. I went home to think about it overnight and it was gone the next day.

[jkokura]

I got a red dot NTK275 Hartman Fuzz...

So awesome.

Jacob

[zapme]

nice boogie build

[JakeFuzz]

Yes! I am glad to see these in a build! There are few better transistors for Q1 than that GET113, it is really smooth and dark. One tweak I have been playing around with is to vary the value of the 470R resistor; I think Mike Fuller did it with his 70's fuzz and called it mids. It adds a sort of weird boominess and midrange of course but it makes it sound fatter. Excellent wiring!

[jprizz]

Hey Paul, I just hope I can do your transistors justice! How much are you varying from the 470R?

Excellent wiring!

Thanks! I feel like it looks too cluttered up with the extra wiring from the RoadRage, at least not as simple as a FF should look.

[ch1naski]

Did you build it from the schematic, or is there a layout floating around...

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[JakeFuzz]

I usually use a 47R lower limiter and a 1K trimmer. I think it is a 1K in the 70's too but I don't really remember.

[tiagojoy]

Very good!!