You Can Build A Fuzz Face (StewMac Fuzz Face Kit)
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2023
- This morning, Josh is starting a new series on the JHS Show called Short Circuit, where he is going to be doing some DIY projects and working on circuits! If you're into building pedals, if you want to know how they work, if you want to learn about electronic parts, this is the show for you! Today, Josh will be working on a Fuzz Face kit from StewMac. Basically, we're sitting at home with Josh while he works.
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I'm only a few months into pedal building and I've never heard a more reassuring phrase than "This is the part of the build where things start disappearing." It feels like at some point your parts and tools just sprout legs and toddle off and it's nice to know it's not just me.
Love the last name, I'm Brian Heaney
Worry not. Happens to all of us. LOL.
Sometimes mine just falls into oblivion.
Haven't gotten into pedal building, but I have assembled things before with small parts and one tip is to use small containers to categorise and keep things in. That way, when those small containers sprout lets and go walk-abouts, at least you'll have the peace of mind that the little pieces aren't alone.
@@C33Fernandez Smart. The buddy system is a classic for a reason.
Dude-thanks for teaching people how to catch their own fish.
Any time!
Thank you Josh for the free pedal! Chose the 3-Series Fuzz, of course. Watching you solder was really helpful...I see what I've been doing wrong. Thanks!!!! Great content... more please!
I think when that tool is in use, it should be called Carol Cam.
The Carol Clamp!@@davidpekarsky2977
we actually learned in electronic school you shouldnt bend the legs underneath on the solder side because if you need to chage something its pain in the ass and the solder doesnt flow as parallel
You’re the Bob Ross of pedal builders. "Change the transistors, it's your world"
😄👍
Look at all the happy little components!
Bob Ross of fuzz... who made a video about the Ross Fuzz... which made my head bob along to that song he played... coincidence?
As someone who's just started building kits I love this
Yeah, I hate it too
As someone who has built kits I love this
You are the Bob Ross of pedal building. Today we're gonna build a happy little fuzz...
I had to walk away from the live stream for a few minutes so it didn't let me vote on the poll.
My answer is YES. Please keep doing this series.
Equipment suggestion: You could use an Ipad (or non apple equivalent) to take a photo of the small component in front of you so you would instanly have a 10" picture of it you could point at various parts with human sized fingers. You could then just put the ipad out of shot and come back to it later if you think of another point or have another tiny component.
Or a dedicated Tiny Objects camera with a Tiny Table and Wee Pointy Stick
Josh is truly a gift to humanity! His desire to share his passions and his humble nature make it easy and enjoyable to watch. Guess that makes me a nerd! 🤓
Using a multimeter to test the resistors is essential for those of us with red/green colorblindness. It can be really difficult to discern the different colors of the bands.
I have a little fixture made for this exact purpose. It's basically a bit of PCB with 2 copper lands with banana plug leads soldered to them so as I go I can just touch a resistor off the pads, get a reading and carry on. Much handier than dealing with probes.
Good Lord this! They print tiny little numbers on other components, why can't they just put numbers on resistors?
Just in time, I'm meeting a builder tomorrow to do my first build , a fuzz face circuit from scratch. This video is the perfect prep!
I build electronics professionally, but I've only made one pedal from a kit. This is super cool!
This is the best reality show that I've ever watched.
Organic & Natural.
That is a good band name too.
Your wife and Belle play a huge role in this episode. At last, we believe that you're a human.
I've built 3 Stew Mac kits and have 3 more to build. Absolutely a blast to build. Thank you for this video.
Love the 80's opening, solid!
Josh you have literally impacted my life today, I watched from beginning to end. Yes, I took a 3 hour nap with my wife halfway through because it really is ASMR. But I finished it and I was SO EXCITED to hear how quickly you could change the sound of the fuzz, and once I saw you go through the bin of capacitors and continium transfunctioners I lost my marbles. I knew I was going down a beautiful, colorful, spiky, rabbit hole filled with unsoldered resistors and transistors and insistors and desistors and prosisters covered in germanium gelatin. I have a small shopping cart on amazon with a work mat, a soldering iron (a decent one) and some solder and remover wick. I just wanna find a cool pedal and build my first one. It also got me curious about modifying my pickups, and then I saw a video of another guy making a pedal with 12 oscillating capacitors on it to help change the tone of the guitar pickups. Alice, I will find you in Pedal Wonderland!!!!
Came for the Barney songs, stayed for the pedal build. This was beautiful therapy I didn't know I needed. Thank You Josh. 🥰🥰
Cannot wait for the breadboard episode! Thats where I'm stuck, somewhere between schematic and breadboarding.
Also, talking to one self while creating is essential! Thanks, Josh! 👾
Hi Julian! You aren´t from Sweden huh? The surname Holm is very common here in Sweden anyway...
Would you like to tell more precise where you are stuck, with what? Is the breadboarding where it takes stop for you? When you are trying to take a schematic and put a circuit on the breadboard? Is it something specific that you have been trying to do but haven´t been able to overcome? Some circuit you cant get working?
I wouldn´t mind to try to help you overcome the obstacles so you can keep on advancing to your next level with electronics. Getting stuck is so un-fun and bad for creativity so i would be glad to help you with your journey. I´m no electrical engineer but i have made the journey myself with building kits - building from stripboard/vero layouts - building from schematics - making my own schematics and circuits - designing and making my own PCB´s for pedals/synthesizer circuits. I feel like this hobby is the best thing thats ever happen to me, it has been so extremely fun. Everything about it. To learn, create, advance, trying, failing, troubleshooting, getting ideas on the bus i have to draw a sketch of immidiately and try as soon as i come home. It is so rewarding and healthy for the mind and soul. Challenging and interesting.
Electronics is not easy. You WILL get stuck. What i like about it though is that you physically can track down and find the faults. It doesn´t give you a error-code like a computer "FaultErrorUpdate404.exe is computing process corruption, bios delete C:. Erase the Cat. Press Try Again!.
If you get how i mean. If you have a short circuit for example, there will be a physical short somewhere on the 10x10cm board that you will be able to find, sooner or later. In the beginning there is a lot of headscratching when troubleshooting but the more you do it the better will you be at troubleshooting. You will be a lot faster and it will be a lot easier when you have methodical ways and a better overall understanding of circuits so you know where to look when a certain fault is showing its ugly face. As a beginner you have to just be persistent sometimes, find A way. Maybe not the best or fastest way but atleast you now have a way that you know will work for sure, get you to your goal.
It´s a lot easier if you have someone to bounce your ideas off of and talk to when getting stuck, we learn a lot by putting word to our thoughts.
So if you want someone to talk electronics with back and forth and maybe share our current projects and learn from each other you´re more than welcome to send me a e-mail or text me att fb or something. You can find my mailaddress and my name here on my youtube page. I´m curious where you are stuck :-).
If anyone else reads this and wants to talk electronics, feel free to reach out!
Wow! This is SO helpful! Even after having built around 25 pedals, I still learned things watching Josh!
More, please!
I've been breadboarding fuzzes all week so this is just lovely! I'd love to know more about substituting components, and identifying the different stages of a schematic! Thanks for the tone wisdom
Firstly, I love this content so I'm glad you're doing this.
Secondly those instructions from Stu Mac are so visually easy to read, use and are super informative. Congratulations to their team for that.
Could be my favourite video thus far - I've been watching a couple of years now, it's definitely a favourite anyway. More please Josh, this was fascinating and really encouraging.
I built drones for years, It's fun until $500 gets stuck in a tree. I sold them and bought a couple of cheap guitars, which I instantly modified and upgraded. My first build was a TUBE preamp for my board. It was fun, so now after 3 years, none of my guitars or pedals have gotten stuck in a tree. They don't fly away forever, and I don't have to go to a park to play my guitar. This is like a slice of heaven... Thanks for this Josh. I can't wait to get my NOTAKLON, so I'm going to order this fuzz and build it.
The theme song and logo is outstanding!
I'm doing a few workshops on pedal building at my school. One of the options is a modded silicon fuzz face with the fuzz control replaced with a fixed resistor and a bias knob. We are using biscuit and chocolate tins as the enclosures. No circuit boards, just twisting components together, soldering, and praying.
Very cool! Thanks so much for having us along!
It's funny... I was hearing him read off the color codes for the resistors and saying to myself "that's not right, doesn't make any sense." Then I realized he was reading them backwards! 😂
Thank you for doing this video! I hope this series continues.
I absolutely loved this episode!! Not only was it great to watch you build a pedal but it was really great to see you work through any of the minor hiccups you ran into and watch you troubleshoot them. Thank you soooo much!! Can't wait to see the next episode!!!
Just stumbled into this video; not sure how I missed it when it was first posted, but IT’S FASCINATING! I’m a civil engineer, so I’d say I’m fairly intuitive and mechanical, but electronics have always intimidated me. When I initially saw the parts for this build, I thought, yep, no way I could do that. But Josh has such an awesome way of explaining everything, and then to be able to actually watch him doing it, is just so cool! Now I want to build a pedal! Seriously.
On a related note, I have the Notaklon solderless pedal on pre-order and was a bit concerned about whether I could put it together. Not anymore. Thanks Josh, you are an awesome teacher!
Man, you have to love Josh. Common to evil geniuses and pedal designer/builder savants alike, little attention is paid to pesky details and minutiae.
He said he is missing parts, meanwhile there are parts all over his desk into which these "missing parts" could disappear. And I'll bet there are more than a few "missing parts" in that garbage can between his legs under his desk.
He's like the heralded life-saving perfectionist surgeon that accidentally sews his surgical glove to the new heart he's just transplanted.
Love this new series, please keep doing them!!!!!
Loved everything about this right down to the name of the series! Please do more!
That was fun! Please continue the series.
This is great. I don't usually watch videos this long and it took a couple of sessions, but this is great. I hope you keep doing this Josh!
this was awesome to watch - thanks so much Josh!
Spectacular episode Josh!! I really enjoy this NERD-RAMA format of your shows. Looking forward to many more to come. Thanks!!!
definitely love this series! keep them coming!
Definitely keep this series going!! Really looking forward to the breadboarding video of this circuit!!
Please keep this series going! I learned so much!!! Thank you Josh you are the GOAT!
Absolute love this and very stoked for this series!
Please make a thousand of these ones!!! I loved it and learned so much!!!
Ive been building for years and already see 5 things Im going to change in my process. Im gonna love this series.
This is amazing! I’ve been hoping this would happen for a while and it was super educational ✌️
This is amazing!! Great idea!! Looking forward to seeing more, unfortunately I couldn’t watch it live, but really enjoying it!!
OUTSTANDING!! This gives me confidence in building my own pedals, thanks!
Nothing you've ever done has got me more excited than when you announced doing this. I absolutely love this kind of content and I can't wait to see more. I'm a beginner guitar pedal builder with a few pedals built so far and many more in the works.
Loving this new show. Nerding out like crazy. Looking forward to more videos like this 😍😍🤩🤩
I bought this kit a couple of months ago and it's been sitting on my dresser because I've been a little intimidated to jump into it. So excited to build this along with you
Thank you so much for this series! Exactly what I need.
Josh, i LOVE this concept!
Real content warts and all, honesty & sincerity are wonderful traits 🙏
"Failure is not an option, it's essential." - Adam Savage. Recovering from a mistake is an essential skill in the making process.
"Wiring is the boring part of building a pedal. It's not glamorous. Nobody's gonna applaud you." I've seen some wire looming so beautiful and tidy it made me weep; I've seen some messy wiring that's made me cry. It's this attention to detail in assembly that marks the difference between a mass-produced CBS product and something hand-built by Howard Dumble or Ken Fischer.
Dave Jones of EEVblog and Big Clive have done some great videos on hand soldering, both though hole and SMT.
Those anti-rotation tabs on panel mount pots are brilliant, and with modern CNC milling capabilities, I think it's inexcusable not to have holes for them in the enclosure. It's just one bit change in the milling process, and if a face nut comes loose, not having those tabs introduces more potential points of failure.
Thank you for providing this demo video, Josh. I appreciate you taking the time to explain and show how different transistors effect the sound. Very interesting and informative.
This was awesome. Thank You. For such a long time I have been going back and forth (contemplating) on trying my hand at kit pedals or kit amps. I really hope this becomes a series and goes into deep dives on component selection, easy modifications for swapping components, etc. Thank you for the content!
This is wonderful! I've been thinking about building/modding some pedals, and this has pushed me to do so. Thank you!
Thanks for your humility! It's honestly great seeing you do this in real time and make a mistake. Very relatable and validating for me as I create plenty of mistakes too
I’m only a couple kit builds into the craft and I’ve been sitting on fuzz face components. I really want this project to turn out well and this video helped me feel ready to tackle this one. Thanks guys
I absolutely loved this! Thank you Josh! I'm ordering a kit today.
Thanks Josh, this was awesome and I can't wait for the next
received it yesterday... finished build today. Nice tone. Got a nice fuzzy look coming up for it
I talk to myself constantly when I'm doing something.
Fixing the car, cleaning the BBQ, building a kit RC car, anything where I'm concentrating on what I'm doing.
I find it actually relaxes me and by basically talking out what I'm doing keeps me focused and less stressed
This is great dude. Thank you so much for sharing this. I cannot believe the amount of information there is for people that are really into gear. This is fantastic.
Brilliant idea for a series! Love it.
I just got to tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time (as busy as you must be running your company) to educate the masses about this interesting and very rewarding hobby. You my friend are a true believer and King of pedal lore!
That was awesome, really excited for part 2
I build my first pedal this year in march. I ordered a kit for a Fuzz Face clone and a DS-1. I didn't expect much, i never soldered something since university 15 years ago. I f****ed pretty much, but with a little reaserch i found my errors and fixed them. Now i'm totally hocked. Finished my 8th pedal today (ElectricDruid DigiDelay). Give it a try, it is a lot of fun.
Blown away. Love it, mistakes and all. Best way to learn. Totally going to do this.
Josh thanks for doing this. It is important to show both being careful to follow directions but you also had the chance to demo troubleshooting.
Watching Josh nerd out building a pedal - that's entertainment!! Thanks!
I hope more content like this keeps coming JHS awesome job
Please continue this series! Looking forward to the breadboard show
Josh, thanks for doing this. I am excited to start building pedals and you are an inspiration. I love the content you put up. Your whole team is great.
THIS IS SO AWESOME i can't wait to learn more. How the different transistors made such a huge difference was so cool, I am impressed. I was looking for this kind of introduction to building pedals, so neat
I am so freaking into this! I'm a flight simulator technician, I've worked on several military platforms and worked at the FAA's flight standards research and development platform where I was the lead tech. I've wanted to learn to build pedals forever. Thank you so very much for doing this. I hope you'll get way deep in the weeds on how to build great pedals.
Edit: spelling
Thank you Josh, loved this
Thanks. I had a good time geeking out with you. Please keep doing these vids.
Great timing for me on this video. I hope you do more of these and often. I'd love to continue learning about components.
Josh, thank you for doing this. For some reason I haven't been motivated to play. This video has given me some ideas and that gives me motivation. So thank you for reigniting my motivation!
I say, keep this format going!!
This is great! Pretty stoked to ride along and learn!
I really appreciate you making this video, Josh. As someone interested in learning how to create my own DIY pedals this has been a great resource. It helps a lot to see how different people approach their workflow and this makes the idea of creating my own pedals much less intimidating. I hope you will consider making more of these kinds of videos, I really learned a lot and enjoyed it. It's incredibly helpful to see a tutorial from an industry professional such as yourself.
Thanks, Josh!!! I had already built the same pedal. Wish I'd put in the transistor adaptors as you did to play around. Loved it!
thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you and your 3 series fuzz IS my FAVORITE fuzz for soooo many reasons!
So much appreciate this series. This is something I've been wanting to do and not really sure where to start, so im really looking forward to the breadboard episode. I totally get your personality, I'm very much the same. I am so glad i watched this! 😃👍
Love this type of stuff. Please keep it going! Thanks!
One of the coolest videos you've ever put out, no joke. I've never built a pedal (just a collector), but I think I just might try it now!
learning so much from this video. i dont have any electrical engineering background our anything but i was glued to my screen. that socket thing with the transistors blew my mind.
Very educational Josh, keep on doing these types of videos please. Loved it.
I really appreciate you showing us in very good detail good job , thank you
That was very cool to watch, love that kind of electronics! Can't wait to see the breadboard episode.
Loved this!
Going to get kit! Thanks so much
Definitely like this type of video!! Excellent job, and i learned a great deal from this video!!
Possibly my favourite episode so far and I've been watching for almost five years! 😃
Wow! Josh, This is a really cool thing you've done here. Thank you.
Keep modifying the fuzz, really learned a lot. Best video yet
I really hope to see more of these! Thanks
Just recently finished building you-Tuber tonegeek ts10 pedal build… and I am hooked. Josh great information, please continue this series!!
1: thanks for the tip on the Rocket Sockets - I use those for everything pedal and guitar wiring-related.
2: I’d love to see a workbench series exploring mods to pedals which are easily mod-able.
I tried building a Klon replica, and made a lot of mistakes (don’t work tired, kids). I’m still unraveling them while I gather parts for a second round, but I see a number of things I need to do differently. Thanks for all your content, Josh!
Oh yes! Thanks man, I bought a fuzz face clone kit for Christmas and not even taken it out of the bag yet due to time constraints. Now I'm inspired again
I used to buy Archer kits from Radio Shack in the early 70's. First kit was a 7 transistor radio. Second was a 3 channel color organ and the third was a strobe light. I had a TV repairman build my first fuzz/distorion pedal for me for $10.
Kudos to you and Brian, Josh! Knowledge dissemination is what it's all about. 👊