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How to add Silicon Fuzz to any tube amp (!) (1969)

Got a good one for you today. Below is a 1969 article from “Science and Electronics” magazine (auth. Herb Friedman) that describes an incredibly simple way to add an adjustable, defeat-able silicon-fuzz circuit to any tube guitar amp. I haven’t tried this yet but i am def excited to. If anyone builds this out, please comment and let us know the results.

chris

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  • The procedure seems kind of hard, fortunately now we can just buy an effects pedal

  • A fascinating read. Chance being what it is, recently exposed me to a very similar article. My father-in-law just recently passed away and as a family we were going through a box of photos and that box was a snippet just like the one on page 68, and the photo on page 70 might as well have been one from his workshop. We are a products of our time.

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