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Old 17th Sep 2017, 1:14 pm   #33
Argus25
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Default Re: Transistors for Fuzz Pedals.

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Originally Posted by mictester View Post
There are audible differences between a Fuzz Face made with germanium and silicon transistors, but addition of a couple of small value ceramic capacitors to the silicon version will make them sound (and measure) identically.....
Yes, as Craig Sawyers pointed out the fT is an important parameter for the application, but as you say a silicon transistor's fT is easily shifted downward by adding a small amount of base to collector capacitance to make it behave like a germanium in terms of its frequency response.
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