Who doesnt love the Fuzz Face?  It’s a CLASSIC.  Its what almost every legendary guitar hero in the 60s started with, and while many of them moved on to other fuzzy landscapes, its hard to deny the universal appeal of these badass little dudes.  If you dont love the fuzz face even a little bit, you might just have something terribly wrong with you.

This guy is a relatively stock germanium fuzz face.  Its not completely stock for a few reasons.  First off, tracking down the vintage AC128 or NKT275 germanium transistors is pricey and unnecessary, in my humble opinion.  Second, these original units were of a reverse polarity from most modern pedal devices, which makes using external power supplies complicated, and that just sucks in this modern world.  So fuck all that.  I used some new old stock 2N1302 germs with smashing results.  Everything else is stock values with Sprague and Mallory caps.

 I liked this one so much that I made another, this time using old-stock Soviet germaniums (ГТ311Б!) of  appropriate gain.  Sounds just as sweet and just as fuzzy.

Both of these lil’ ragers are still available at the time of this post.