Bazz Fuss Demo - DIY guitar pedal

Bazz Fuzz Demo - produced by Josh Singer on 20Dec09.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bazz Fuss
• guitar
• pedal
• DIY
• transistor
• fuzz
• electronics
• 60's
• Cream
• Clapton
• stompbox
• rock
• distortion

[TheBigMclargehuge]

What's so womany about Clapton's tone?

[joshik72]

@TheBigMclargehuge - ha! I know... I finished the whole thing, heard it when I played it back, and thought "what the hell was I thinking?!"

[giorgosellas]

sory for asking again, is important for cap to be 50v or 100v?

[joshik72]

The rule of thumb is to find parts that are rated roughly double the voltage of your project. This pedal (and most pedals) runs on a 9v battery. So each component must be able to handle at least 9v, or else it will burn out. I'm looking at some caps right now that are 16v, more than enough for a 9v circuit. A 100v cap will work, but it will probably be the size of your THUMB! Go to FUZZBOXWORLD and order the BEGINNER'S KIT - it's the BazzFuss, with all the parts you need, for about $35.

[dinglegonzo]

my bazz fuss sounds like a fart

[projectno5]

hey. im doing this exact same pedal from the exact same schematic and i find i get a bypass signal but no actual live signal. could anyone help?

[joshik72]

@miyaaaaw - I can't post a link, but do a Google search for "Bazz Fuss" and you'll find a JPEG of the schematic.

Follow the schematic, check each component with your meter before you install it (10u vs. 100u!), make sure everything is in the proper direction... - remember, in the JPEG, the red squares show where you need to make breaks in the bus running across the board - be sure to scratch off the trace at these points!

[miyaaaaw]

@joshik72 Great tone and great demo

Ive build pedals before and after that i saw your video ive tried to build this one but it didnt sound right ,there was the guitar's sound but there was no buzz ,ive tried 3 ways to build this pedal but couldnt get any buzz , is there a way that you could get pictures of the board ? i mean pictures of the placing and soldering, i couldnt find them anywhere it would really really help

[TheBigMclargehuge]

I tried this one.  Mine doesn't freaking work, it just goes BUZZZZZ, though I can hear a tiny bit of guitar under the ear splitting hum. Maybe I can start a new style.

[JoshuaBoDean]

I just built my first one. A friend came over as I was working on it, and he kept hurrying me up. It took me hours to figure out what all I did wrong. Turns out I had a capacitor and the transistor wired backwards. Then I still couldn't get it to sound right. Turns out, my resistor wasn't actually a 10K. Crap, I had read the codes wrong. I changed that one little resistor, and it sounds perfectly wonderful.

It sounds a little different than yours because I used an S9014 transistor.

[Ombrenuit]

@isomikieee buzzing is usually a grounding problem as far as I know