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[Marcel]

I had an Ah ha! moment there Doc.
Clicked on the link you posted -- It is amazing how your perception can change if a circuit is drawn even slightly differently.... and the explanation certainly helped too...

[DrNomis_44]

I had an Ah ha! moment there Doc.
Clicked on the link you posted -- It is amazing how your perception can change if a circuit is drawn even slightly differently.... and the explanation certainly helped too...

No worries, I like it when those little "Ah ha!" moments occur, especially when you've been working on something for a long time, makes it all worthwhile.

The Fuzz Face circuit is a deceptively simple circuit that functions in a pretty complex way, I think I've probably spent a lot of time analysing how it works from an electronic theory point of view.


There's nothing like having a decent and clearly drawn schematic available to help when it comes to faultfinding an electronic circuit.


Whether through deliberate design, or perhaps a happy accident, the way I see it, the Fuzz Face circuit appears to have been designed to behave in a non-linear way on purpose, normally a circuit designer would try and design the circuit to produce the least amount of distortion possible, the original designer of the Fuzz Face circuit is probably unknown.