Re: Vox Distortion Booster = Colorsound one knob fuzz?

Posted by Marbles on Mar 14, 2016; 7:49pm
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/Vox-Distortion-Booster-Colorsound-one-knob-fuzz-tp28841p28865.html

So... I built this:

http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.nl/2012/10/colorsound-one-knob-fuzz.html

But changed all the values to this:





I'm terrible at reading schematics (noob!), but from what I can read, I can change all the resistor values. But omitting the 1M. I think that is the pulldown resistor to stop it from popping?

Plus the 220p cap is not in the schematic, so I omitted that one.


It's exactly the same, right?



I don't have the 2N2924s yet, so I tried BC550c's and 2N3904 cause I have those lying around. The fuzz is fine, though not special, but there is a lot of hiss. Is that because the transistors I use are way too high in hfe? Or is the schematic I interpreted wrong?




PLease correct me if anything of the above does not make any sense, I'm trying to wrap my head around schematics and part-functionalities...