Breaking down JHS's Japan Fuzz // Gray Bench Electronics

Welcome back to the bench.
This week we're having a look at the JHS "Japan Fuzz", a modified fuzz face with some unique...omissions? Check it out!

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[LP-qihs]

Great video. Fuzz pedals are simple but small details make huge differences....

[LollygaggerFX]

Dude!! You should do a play through on every pedal you break down and you can explain the sounds that we are hearing as pertaining to the circuit you just went through.

[antipusrises]

I would love a whole video on breadboarding. There’s a certain intimidation factor there that doesn’t exist for PCBs, and some instructional info would be way cool.

[tbobbyelectric]

Best video of yours, that I’ve seen, so far! Great work! Glad to actually make much more sense out of things, than normal.

Cheers, Mang!

[pacificplazacircuits]

Ah dang I was hoping you'd do the output cap and bright cap in circuit together! This was a really cool breakdown, hope to see more circuit investigations and breadboard experiments!

[ToneRangerAudio]

The veroboard is all done! Voltage inverter and output cap included

[gmcoates]

Great video, thanks really helped explain a lot and full of ideas for playing with that circuit. I am new to this and really enjoying messing, at the moment some makes sense and a real lot doesn't but time will change that (I hope). More videos please.

[robnic]

Great video, a demo including the missing coupling cap would be interesting.

[MacGriggle]

JHS Color Box v2 would be cool to see you break down

[MonPyxis]

Amazing video keep it up ! I learned so much thank you :)

[scramblesthedeathdealer]

I just breadboarded my first pedal, a Copper Sound Pedals Silicone Fuzz DIY kit... now I just need to figure out how to adapt it into an old Boss compact pedal enclosure.

Maybe next, I will try one of these with Germanium transistors, like Josh, but I want it to be AC powered.

[brendanliegey]

do you have the gerber files for the pcb that make breadboarding a bit easier? thinking of usint this for my schools pedal club

[JulioNusdeoIII]

greetings from buenos aires, argentina. man, i learn a lot from your videos and really want to thank you for that! i know this is jhs take on fuzz face schematic, but i'd like to understand why the signal path is being taken from the 1k resistor and not from de q2 collector as on every other common emitter amplifier. i'd really appreciate that info. cheers!

[dazzlenconfused]

your videos are awesome and your breadboard is wicked any chance of the location i can buy one?

[timofenimem]

Good afternoon, can you save the schematic file for downloading?? How can I download a picture with a diagram? Thank you!

[JonnySoundSounds]

when i watched josh build his i wondered why he did some of those things which to me makes the circuit sound worse and like you said the volume would some what effect bias with no cap it was a wierd pedal for someone who creates so many circuits i was kinda sad at his japanese fuzz, honestly theyre lizard queen was kinda a weak build as well

[gmcoates]

Where did you get that board from and can I get one or maybe 2 or 3 please?

[leeroyfunk]

why wouldn't you include an output cap