The original Fuzz-Face circuit used old fashioned germanium PNP transistors. Their circuits frequently had a positive ground.
Have you seen how distorted it is? It has clipping at the top and bottom and the bottom has much more clipping. So it has odd harmonic distortion from both top and bottom being clipped and has even harmonic distortion because they are not symmetrical.
A little 0.01uf capacitor is never polarized. A big 2.2uF capacitor is frequently a low cost polarized electrolytic type. The input capacitor will have its + terminal at 0v and its - terminal wikll have the negative base voltage of the first transistor on it.
Negative feedback biases the circuit a little.
Here is a simulation of the circuit slightly modified and with silicon NPN transistors:
It shouldn't, it's just an over driven amplifier, if it's clipping the bottom so much more like that, then it's biased wrongly. But bear in mind Audioguru has used different transistors, and the resistor values may still be those for the original germanium devices.
It shouldn't, it's just an over driven amplifier, if it's clipping the bottom so much more like that, then it's biased wrongly. But bear in mind Audioguru has used different transistors, and the resistor values may still be those for the original germanium devices.
They wanted the Fuzz Face circuit to clip the bottom much more than the top so it produced even harmonics in addition to the odd harmonics from having both top and bottom clipping. Then it had harmonics all over the place.
The circuit we are talking about and one of many mods to it including the version with silicon transistors came from this Fuzz Face article: http://www.geofex.com/Article_Folders/fuzzface/fftech.htm
The article analysed that it has assymmetrical clipping.
(It used AC128 germanium transistors. Remember them?)
Although they were mainly output transistors for small amplifiers (in push pull with the AC127, and later the better spec AC176), such as used in radios etc.
The NKT275 transistor is too old for its datasheet (with a labelled photo of its pins) to be online. If you connect it wrong then it might blow up or not work.
The 8.2k and 330 or 470 resistors form an attenuator that reduces the output level.