DonPetersen
Fractal Fanatic
when I first cloned my Fire Red Fuzz DIY, I made a little mistake. The Q1 (the first germanium transistor) was way too hot (very high hFE value).
I exchanged the transistor with a AC128 and it sounds much better now.
so I cloned it again.
p.s.
when A/B-ing the pedal against the drive/PEQ-block clone I had made, I kept switching between the two A LOT. At first I was really trying to listen to little things, like the way a note decays or how certain intervals add a certain roughness to the notes, but pretty quickly I was playing and enjoying myself instead of 'working'. After a jam session of about 5mins (I thought - more like 30) I had myself convinced that there WAS something special going on in analog circuits. Something very satisfying and rewarding, a very natural sounding compression and just the right balance between smoothness and an edge, bass, body and clarity.
I was convinced.
Then I realized had been playing the Axe version instead of the pedal...
I exchanged the transistor with a AC128 and it sounds much better now.
so I cloned it again.
p.s.
when A/B-ing the pedal against the drive/PEQ-block clone I had made, I kept switching between the two A LOT. At first I was really trying to listen to little things, like the way a note decays or how certain intervals add a certain roughness to the notes, but pretty quickly I was playing and enjoying myself instead of 'working'. After a jam session of about 5mins (I thought - more like 30) I had myself convinced that there WAS something special going on in analog circuits. Something very satisfying and rewarding, a very natural sounding compression and just the right balance between smoothness and an edge, bass, body and clarity.
I was convinced.
Then I realized had been playing the Axe version instead of the pedal...
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