Some loose cuteness and some nib beauties..
With specs and instruction sheet..
One still sealed and another, opened box
The first fuzz box.. The Satisfaction horns sound, the star of so many fuzztonic records. I had to make myself the perfect clone! Yes i built a couple of these before, but i wanted to build it properly.. This is what i came up with:
Finding 2N270 transistors to buy was HELL. Impossible, hard to find, someone who sells them. Rca’s here in Europe, NONE. Forget it. Until…
I did find them! A small stash of them actually! And i didnt have to sell my body to get them. Not RCA’s, but NOS 2N270: leaky, gainy, nasty 2N270s!
Next, i set up this testing board with a nice ZIF socket!
First good set-listen:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/odzftcbdcp2mi1e/maestro%20fz1.m4a?dl=0
Q1 hfe 79 lkge 0.12mA
Q2 hfe 168 lkge 0.53 mA
Q3 hfe 131 lkge 0.70 mA
I tried inverting Q3 and Q2 but the distortion was oscillating..