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Kay F-1 Fuzz Tone

Based on the Kay F-1 Fuzz Tone· 3 other boards clone it

Category
Fuzz
Controls
Tone
Layout
Unverified · no build reported at Effects Layouts (blog) yet
Tags
Fuzz, Kay, Octave

From the post

Here's the layout for #fuzzfriday! The F-1 Fuzz Tone is one of Kay's budget effects from the 60s housed in a plastic treadle pedal. Essentially it's the poor man's Univox Super Fuzz. The treadle would control the Tone pot, with the overall level of the effect fixed at max. This isn't that big of an issue as output is around unity. The circuit can also produce an octave effect as well. Originals used BCE pinout transistors, but the layout below reflects the more common CBE pinout. Originals also used germanium diodes, but silicon can also be used.

Mods:

If you want to add a volume control, start with a 100k pot (other values may work better, that's just what I'd try first), connect lug 3 to the Out pad on the board, lug 2 becomes Out, and ground lug 1. It may also be useful to add a pre-gain pot at input. Again start with a 100k pot, lug 3 becomes the new In, lug 2 goes to In pad on the board, and connect lug 1 to ground via a low value resistors (470Ω, 1k, etc). No idea how useful these mods would be, just a few basic things that came to mind as I laid it out. If you're adding a Volume control, it might not be a bad idea to put a booster (LPB-1 would work well) between Tone 2 and Volume 3. YMMV

Schematic

This is a board layout, a drawing of where each part goes, and the post may link the schematic it was drawn from. Open the layout at Effects Layouts (blog). No KiCad fragment has been drawn for this circuit yet.

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RefValueNormalizedTypeNotes
Resistors 6
×4100K100kread from the layout by eye
×610K10kread from the layout by eye
×222K22kread from the layout by eye
×21.8K1.8kread from the layout by eye
×147K47kread from the layout by eye
×11M1Mread from the layout by eye
Capacitors 6
×12.2nF2.2nread from the layout by eye
×14.7nF4.7nread from the layout by eye
×2100nF100nread from the layout by eye
×21uF1uelectrolytic; read from the layout by eye
×410uF10uelectrolytic; read from the layout by eye
×147uF47uelectrolytic; read from the layout by eye
Diodes 3
D11N34A1N34Aread from the layout by eye
D21N34A1N34Aread from the layout by eye
×11N40011N4001read from the layout by eye
Transistors 4
Q12N50882N5088read from the layout by eye
Q22N50882N5088read from the layout by eye
Q32N39042N3904read from the layout by eye
Q42N39042N3904read from the layout by eye
Potentiometers 1
ToneB250KB250kPotentiometerread from the layout by eye

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