Guitar talk, and easy guitar lessons from beginner to jazz with Birdsnake Brown
This was one of my favorite fuzz faces. I ended up selling it on reverb but I do have a set of these transistors left for a rainy day.
I used a .1uf poly cap for the input, and a .01 for the output, so it’s not as bass heavy as a stock fuzz face.
The 2G308 transistors clean up really well with the guitar volume knob, but they also get a huge sound with the volume all the way up.
You can call it a Telestrat if you want, or even a Strelecaster, but either way, it’s the best middle setting on a Stratocaster!
Using the strat neck and bridge together is one of the greatest Stratocaster tones and it isn’t even an option with the standard switching.
You can get a great funk tone, and it also does a great fake Telecaster sound.
More like trouble bleed. When you have a treble bleed circuit in your guitar, the fuzz face doesn’t clean up with the volume knob the way it’s supposed to. This isn’t just a fuzz face thing. A lot of vintage fuzz pedals interact with the volume knob and the trouble bleed will have an effect on the tone.
In this lesson I demonstrate the fuzz face with and without the treble bleed circuit. I like it a lot better without the treble bleed.
I really like that cool strat quack tone on the 2nd and 4th setting. In this lesson I share tricks to setting your pickup height or even matching different pickups to make your stratocaster have that quack sound on the in between settings.