Perhaps I could find a brass enclosure for a Fuzz Factory build...

His Vexter series goes a long way towards rectifying some of that, but even still, he charges a pretty solid $50+ "novelty and image" fee above what would be more realistic, especially for something that is manufactured overseas...

His US pedals are simply absurdly priced.

For realz. They are like effects pedals for the Apple-bred expensive novelty device crowd.

I guess as long as people keep buying them.

I feel we should overthrow him.

Revolucion.

Also, I need Germanium transistors to build this bitch. Those I actually have to order.

Trudat. Though, the ones i have in mine, i got locally. If you have a proper electronics store around(as opposed to yer average Rat Shack) you might get lucky and find something suitable in a pair of PNP(important!) germanium transistors. The ones i found are NTE 102As.

Now, the word on the street, is that the circuit can possibly work reasonably well with silicon transistors as well, and at some point i am going to experiment with that i think.

ALSO. Though it is not listed on any of the layouts, here are the hFE (forward voltage gain measure - useful as a rough indication of how "hot" a device is) readings from a dood's original Vex unit:

Q1 - 2N3904 - Anywhere from 200 to 800 will work fine.
Q2 - PNP Germanium - somewhere around 90+
Q3 - PNP Germanium - somewhere around 120+

Which will be useful, if you are presented with transistors that have been measured. I don't have any way to measure mine, so i wound up using the one of the pair of NTE102As that seemed hotter in a boost i made way back, as Q3, and the other as Q2.

The 2N3904, i just used the first one that came out of the bag.

I played with this thing most of the day, but forgot to make clips. I also pulled out some of the pedals that never see any use ever from me to toy with, including a flanger, and a fucking stereo chorus pedal.

But i still really like what the Fuzz Factory does. I have to run more tests, because its character really changes a lot depending on whether it is after a buffered pedal, or oddly, if certain distortion pedals are after IT. Some kind of wacky impedance shit i think. Can make some cool effects happen, and can really thicken the sound produced by the FF itself.

I also really enjoy making that classically fuckedup velcrofuzz noise with it.