Analog Man / Sunface Fuzz BC 108 Silicon / 2010's / Effect
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We have some BC108 silicon transistors, and have been making silicon Sunfaces for a few years now. The BC108 are in small metal cans. Silicon fuzzfaces came out in about 1969. They are fuzzier than the germaniums, and brighter. The silicon transistors have much higher gain. They don't get totally clean by turning the guitar down like the NKTs but they do clean up quite a bit and are sensitive to your dynamics. Check out the sound sample below to hear this.
The sundial is not really needed as the silicon transistors are not temperature sensitive. But you can use the sundial knob to dial in different sounds if desired. We do put the BIAS trimpot on the inside of the two-knob sunfaces so you can still tweek it if desired.
Silicon fuzzfaces are negative ground, so you can use a power supply without fear of melting it down. But it still may sound better with an old style battery. The FUZZ knob on the silicon version usually sounds and works best if you turn it down a bit (on the germanium I usually like it up full).
I got four old 1960s Fuzzfaces in for repairs and tweeking in early 2008 from a collector. Two were BC108 silicon so I compared them to a BC108 Sunface that I just finished. I was very happy when I found the sounds were almost identical except the sunface was a little clearer sounding. The other two old fuzzfaces were NKT275, one was decent but the other was really dull and woofy. Our NKT sunface was better than both but he wanted to keep them original so we left the original weak transistors in them.
They are built in small gold boxes or we can use a 1970s MXR paperweight boxes, with our own SUNFACE circuit board which was made small enough to fit in almost any enclosure. As you can see, this is a VERY high quality board the same type as used on our other pedals. It is better quality than any other fuzzface clone you will find, with shielding, plated through-holes, etc to meet military specs. It also has an internal CLEAN trim pot which you can see on the top left. This trim pot acts just like turning down the VOLUME knob on your guitar, to clean up the fuzz. It can be used to preset the sound if you prefer the sound with the volume knob rolled back a bit. It can also be used to kill Radio Frequency Interference, which may be a problem on high gain pedals in some areas, by turning it down a hair. like all our handmade pedals, the Sunface has true bypass, so when off they do not alter your sound at all.
Analogman Sun Face BC108 review from Gimourish.com
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