How To Build A Germanium Fuzz Face - PNP Transistor Selection / Biasing - Short Circuit Episode: 19

e e [Music] oh hello how's everybody I'm staring the chat down every once in a while you know you start the live stream you do the test you get on and people say Your Voice Sounds like a gargoyle so we're just going to check that yay everyone says yay I was trying to play some uh trying to play some like Jaz not Jazz I don't know what I was playing sounds like we're good so let's jump into this I don't see anyone saying I sound like a gargoyle there we go did he fix that guitar hanger no not at all it's broken louder voice louder voice I can't fix that probably everyone has a different opinion on volumes I have my voice pretty cooking in the Stream so um live streams are a delicate Valen I don't want to break anything so let's jump right into this though uh this is part two it's episode 19 of short circuit so if you're new to this there's like 40 hours of circuit classes but last week I taught you how to build the ghs smiley which is a really nice accurate uh early 70 silicon fuzzface so I used the Silicon fuzzface to start cuz it's simple most simple fuzz faces look deceivingly simple I wouldn't say they're simple I would say they're easy but complicated and so we have this silicon fuzz face here let me play it for a second just to remind you what's going on and then I'll make a few announcements but I know that if I don't play the guitar if I don't if I don't play the guitar a lot of you are gonna you're going to ban me from your life all right so here we go all right that is the JHS Smiley uh last episode I told you exactly how to build it and so today we want to kind of go through the fuzz face um a little bit backwards the first fuzz face was germanium but I started with silicon because that product's solid it's a little more sure fire going to work and then today's the germanium which is where most people want to die they try to build a germanium fuzz face something goes wrong and you find yourself living in a van down by the river and um you you lose ...