Fuzz Face and Buffers 

I subscribed years ago in highschool and now that i'm studying mechanical engineering I feel like i'm finally beginning to understand some of this

This is really years and and years of confusing explanations rendered down into 6 minutes of clarity! Thanks!

Great explanation, thank you and YES want to see more videos like this. Regards.

Great explanation! Great videos. Keep’em coming!

You just gained a subscriber. I've learned so much from this video. Thank you.

I always thought it was the low input impedance of the FF that brought down the gain when using humbuckers. Thanks for explaining this!

Thanks for the great explanation. Easy to follow. Up the irons!

Really interesting analysis. Thanks!

Very nice video, thank you!

Great content! Can you make a tutorial on whammy preset switch for up and down? I made an extra plug to connect to a preset switcher. Thank you!

Great explanation, thank you! The thing with the missing volume control cleanup...does that mean adding a potentiometer between the transformer and the fuzz input would simulate this effect? If yes, which value would you recommend? 250k or 500k like in a guitar?

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The best reason is the benefits of a reactive load in a fuzz face. The fuzz output from the same humbucker pickup wired series vs parallel.. Say it's a 16k ohm series... The 4 ohm parallel arrangement will react with more fuzz and possibly oscillations enough to need to turn the fuzz pot down. Parallel into a fuzz face will be louder than series. Turning the tone pot back to just before oscillation will cause a treble spike. A single coil at 8k ohm will work nicely but the series of humbuckers does more of a gain drive thing with less fuzz. So certain pickups work better with fuzz. Dearmond foils. Filtertrons and hot humbuckers in Parallel.. (4k ohms is low limit). This entire video is summed up to describing the "Attack" control in the Fuzz Factory. The gate mod and bias mods are more useful.

What about a JFET into the two germanium transistors? JFETs clean up great.

i am guessing a Tonebender does not suffer as much either.. I really like the fuzz face but its a pain with this as even the WAH has a buffer and stuffs it, put the WAH after and it sounds terrible

When you say "put a buffer behind the circuit" does that mean, between the guitar and the fuzz pedal? Is front and back of circuits the opposite of guitar pedal amp signal chain?

I never ride the volume knob on my guitar. Maybe I'm missing out on something by not utilizing that… All these years, should I have been setting up my "normal" sound with my volume knob turned down? Just seems like a trick Jimi and Jimmy figured out based on necessity.

is it possible to wire a transformer to a switch and have a buffer friendly mode that can be toggled on and off?