NPD: Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face

[Little Pigbacon]

So I picked up one of these.

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I’d never played it, but I had played one of these.

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And I liked it.

But unlike the Classic 108 Fuzz, the JH-F1 gives zero ****s about your pedalboard. No DC power jack. 9V battery only. Screwdriver needed to access battery. No LED. Input and output reversed. Never mind that it’s a 7” diameter landmine looking thing that probably won’t fit on your pedalboard anyway. So naturally I had to have it.

 

[Thundermtn]

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Lol

 

[johnthomas]

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Details Bernard!
This thang noisy? Before or after wah? Before or after od/distortion?

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[Little Pigbacon]

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I haven’t plugged it in yet. Too busy ordering stuff and shopping for fuzz pedals.

 

[PFDarkside]

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That’s a great pedal.

 

[MetalManiac]

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I have probably the same Fuzzface, but it was rebuilt with a kit of Allen Bradly Carbon Comp resistors and a old stock genuine Mustard cap with original BC108 ..thing? Naturally mine sounds better...way better... exponentially better..inconceivably better. Mod Kits are less than 20 bucks ordered from Italy( off ebay). I picked up mine used & modified for was less than a new one.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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I could buy three upgrade kits with what I saved on my used Fuzz Face and have enough left over for a box of those Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches I like.

If I do this, I’m buying another pedal so I can have one of them factory issue. I generally don’t go for modding pedals. I’d rather buy a good pedal in the first place; it’s probably easier to do that than improve a crappy pedal.

So what did you do with the extra resistors?

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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Jerry! Is that kit supposed to be a one-for-one parts swapped into that Hendrix pedal? Because it looks like you’d have leftovers.

 

[PFDarkside]

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Are those sorted for exact values? Putting wildly out of range old components in a Fuzz Face gives a terrible pedal. I trust Jorge Tripps and Mike Pierra.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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You know, I could try the stock pedal and see if I like it first. But then, I am perhaps sometimes too easily pleased.

 

[MetalManiac]

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Jerry! Is that kit supposed to be a one-for-one parts swapped into that Hendrix pedal? Because it looks like you’d have leftovers.

No sir. Thats a double pic of the same item. I assume they are matched for output as per the original specs, but IDK.Just joking about it sounds so better. Mine sounds great but LPB's does also I'm sure.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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No sir. Thats a double pic of the same item. I assume they are matched for output as per the original specs, but IDK.Just joking about it sounds so better. Mine sounds great but LPB's does also I'm sure.

I know it’s a double pic, and there are still too many resistors. Take a look at this:

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[MetalManiac]

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I don't rightly know. Heres the list of Components in the kit.;

""""""The kit includes:

1 X 470R Piher 1/3W Carbon film resistor
1 X 470R Stackpole Jan resistor (militar specs) 5%
1 X 8,2K Allen Bradley Jan resistor (militar specs) 10% selected at 5%
1 X 8,2K Piher 1/3W resistor 5% (if you want experiment another resistor in that position)
1 X 33K Allen Bradley Jan resistor (militar specs) 10% selected at 5%
1 X 100K Piher 1/3W resistor 10% selected at 5%
1 X 100K Allen Bradley Jan resistor (militar specs) 10% selected at 5%
1 X 2,2uF 63V BC components (Philips) axial capacitor
1 X 22uF 25V BC components (Philips) axial capacitor
1 X 10nF 160V Mustard axial capacitor

Consider that is not always easy to find vintage carbon comp resistors still in tolerance, with these you'll haven't problems, since they're all TESTED at 5%.
The most important carbon comp resistors for the sound, are Allen Bradley JAN, the best sounding CC resistors available
The 2 NOS vintage Philips capacitors, are REFORMED, this mean that they've been put under tension until the electrolyte has come back to its original specs, they're like BRAND NEW. Just consider that the tolerance of that vintage electrolytic was very large, I select them to be max - 10 + 30% (that mean from 2 to 2.85)""""""

BTW, have you fraking seen what the original Analogman Sunfaces nkt fuzzfaces clones are now selling for? I guess Anaolgman ran out of the good stuffings. I bought one for $275, and sold it. Now they are going for upwards of 4 hundred dollars. It goes without saying I should have kept mine, probably sounded better than my funky kit Fuzzface by a wide margin. Oh well, live and burn.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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I don’t know, man. There’s always going to be something better out there. I’m a big fan of gear that’s really great for what I’m willing to spend, gear that’s well-suited to my needs.

About this JH-F1 Dunlop pedal: The other side of that board is PCB with four surface-mount devices (SMD) — a resistor, a capacitor, and two tiny trim pots. So much for the hand-wired shtick.

 

[GoldenVulture]

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I don’t know, man. There’s always going to be something better out there. I’m a big fan of gear that’s really great for what I’m willing to spend, gear that’s well-suited to my needs.

About this JH-F1 Dunlop pedal: The other side of that board is PCB with four surface-mount devices (SMD) — a resistor, a capacitor, and two tiny trim pots. So much for the hand-wired shtick.

Or being true to the original circuit.

 

[Zombiwoof]

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As I recall, at least one of those little trimmers is a bias pot. I had to adjust mine to get the pedal sounding its best.
Al

I don’t know, man. There’s always going to be something better out there. I’m a big fan of gear that’s really great for what I’m

willing to spend, gear that’s well-suited to my needs.

About this JH-F1 Dunlop pedal: The other side of that board is PCB with four surface-mount devices (SMD) — a resistor, a capacitor, and two tiny trim pots. So much for the hand-wired shtick.

 

[PFDarkside]

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Mark the factory setting before adjusting. (Or even better, put a multimeter on it to determine the bias voltage as shipped)