You Can Build A Fuzz Face (StewMac Fuzz Face Kit)

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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[gregheaney]

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.

[CarolMatzPiano]

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!

[producerman]

You’re the Bob Ross of pedal builders. "Change the transistors, it's your world"

[chilidogcowboy]

Dude-thanks for teaching people how to catch their own fish.

[krisbradford]

As someone who's just started building kits I love this

[DrJeebles]

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.

[matthewh]

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! 🤓

[rhymeswfamous]

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!

[bldallas]

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!

[mattwesthaver]

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

[JulianHolmSteensen]

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! 👾

[themattlewisexperience]

The theme song and logo is outstanding!

[sparksnguitarsmike]

I've built 3 Stew Mac kits and have 3 more to build. Absolutely a blast to build. Thank you for this video.

[mrstrypes]

Wow! This is SO helpful! Even after having built around 25 pedals, I still learned things watching Josh!
More, please!

[LeeMurrman]

Ive been building for years and already see 5 things Im going to change in my process. Im gonna love this series.

[RobUttley]

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.

[dannyphantom]

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!!!!

[seangarland]

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.

[stoatystoat]

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

[TribalScience]

I build electronics professionally, but I've only made one pedal from a kit. This is super cool!