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Why, who else says that? Are you referring to the dozen of builders who have spent years working on FFs and tune by ear to match the sound to their reference Fuzz Face sat on the bench beside them? Or do you mean other people who have build their own fuzz face and found by change bits they got it to either work or sound better in their opinion?Spot on...but then the Big Muff isn't one of the 50000 variants of two transistor fuzzes is it?
Forgetting that you continually ignore the fact that these slight variance only come from the Dunlop factory (for the reasons I highlighted), and that Dunlop are notoriously inconsistent at produce good fuzz faces....
Look inside any Analogman, Fulltone etc. pedal. These are guys who have built and modded thousands of desirable Fuzz Faces and you will see the above circuit.
Not strictly true as only two components have a direct effect on the transistor and that is exactly why transistors are sorted and picked for the appropriate value. If you have the right transistor matching you can swap the within the same circuit, regardless of whether they are Ge or Si with only minor tweaks to R2 to fine tune how hot or cold you want to run it.
I.e. matching Ge devices is harder than Si.
Yes finding matching Ge is tougher than finding matching silicons due to the variances, supply shortage and the offset nature of Q1 & Q2s Hfes. Out of a bag of 100-150 transistors we can only pull on average around 10-15 'good' pairs whereas a bag of BC108s Si (for example) will yield nearer to 80% usable and even more so with more modern silicons. This doesn't make a Ge FF any tougher to make than a Si FF once you have a suitable pair. Baring in mind that the OP has a working Ge FF build would it would be safe to assume he had sought out matching pair? I would have thought maybe so.
@LastMantra
Dave, I know you enjoy picking an argument but try confining being a needless antagonist to Speaker Corner. The more you talk the clearer it is that you don't know what you are talking about. I was bought up around the pedal making business. I have myself (at an extremely conservative estimate) built at least 500-1000 FF. The more you try and create an argument just for the sake of trying to look smart the sillier you look and the less help this thread becomes to the original poster.
I remember on the MR days you would flagrantly accuse people of 'hypocrisy' only to clearly demonstrate you were incredibly flaky about what the term really means and when it was actually applicable. It seems the same applies to the term 'contradict' around here.
Like I say if your sole purpose for posting is to start is to start a dick-swinging argument then take it outside this thread and PM me.
Who needs two anyways!