How To Build The JHS Pedals 3-Series Fuzz - Short Circuit Episode: 21

How To Build The JHS 3 Series Fuzz.
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[@plinketharry7469]

Josh this series has just been the best thing. I've learned so much and just wanna say how greatfull I am that this is not paywalled in anyway. In this day and age of the internet that is something different. Thanks so much to you and the team.

[@MrHandleman123]

Ditto that.

[@ErwinS81]

@@MrHandleman123 triplo that! :p

[@nemoqubits3736]

Great live stream. I’m definitely gonna make this fuzz. My vote would be at some point to show us how to do a simple Para EQ pedal or do an actual real spring reverb pedal with a real spring.

[@thyreapermc5948]

Just hook it to my whammy bar!

[@ravenslaves]

I vote for the spring reverb. I once helped a friend take apart an old Vox reverb. ...it was a spring soldered to two (old) cheap, phonograph needles. They even had the lifting arms still attached.

[@Xopher1111]

Missed the Live, but 2nd for the EQ!

[@grberendzenproductions312]

Okay, I came to the party 4 days late and I haven't watched any of the preceding episodes. I am aware of how transistors work and I understand why you're using the system that you are, to avoid soldering . I intend to build this using my soldering iron and a standard board. I thank you, Josh, for explaining your gain structure, I found the initial Fuzz Face problematic and sort of mystifying. I'm thankful for this video. I'm amazed you're sharing your knowledge for free. I'll have to buy another JHS pedal to make it up to you as long as I can make this work. I can't imagine why I shouldn't be able to. Gotta get the Electronics Supply catalogue and make up an order. Again, Thanks!

[@riklionheart23]

A show on how to transfer a finished bread board layout into an enclosure would be good.

[@mojekh]

I love your sense of humor, I think you've just extended my life by at least another 45 years😄

[@rustygardhouse7895]

This topology gave birth to so many variations that have their own character. I'd like to see you breadboard a couple of the more influential versions and explain why it has its thing. With your experience it maybe obvious but to me it's learning. Really enjoying this series!

[@DubZero1]

Absolutely love the 3 series fuzz... Cornerstone of my current shoegaze/90s indie tone.

[@ErwinS81]

this is absolutely my favorite series on KZbin! Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge with us Josh, you are the greatest.

[@Lenny-xs8nr]

Recently got into pedal building and this series has been a massive help! Also please never change your intro song!

[@notbenh]

As to the question at the end: I think that I keep coming back to this series more for the theory, like =why= does {this} mod work for this circuit. If you find it simpler to explain a concept by doing a breakdown of a specific pedal, awesome. If you think that a simpler mod an existing pedal is a better illustration of a concept, rad. While I think that the history of a circuit is interesting, I think that the short circuit angle is =why= the parts make the sound they do and how that fits in to the larger scope of musicality.

[@postpostpunk]

Love my 3 Series Fuzz. Nothing but sweet spots.

[@amiriteshyalaman]

I have been somewhat intimidated by pedal building but this makes me feel like I can dive in. Fuzz makes sense.

[@jhspedals]

yeah!! you can do it! 💪🏼

[@schwag512]

For the next video, can you also describe in more detail how you translate schematics to actual layout when constructing a pedal. Thanks as always. You are very generous with your time and knowledge.

[@ondooga]

Being an owner of a 3 Series Fuzz, this was a great episode!! A couple of little surprises in the setup of the circuit, which make total sense, when comparing the shortcomings of the original FF circuit. Considering all of Josh's obsesses, I’m surprised that the flow of the Coppersound breadboards being opposite of schematics, doesn’t seem to bother him! It’s my only gripe with an otherwise amazing line of products. Keep up the great work!!👌👌

[@jacksonreazin6042]

JHS is the Big Clive of guitar pedals and I love that.

[@ZaneQuebec]

Hi Josh. First i want to say that you made me start exploring and building curcuits for the last 6 months. I retired last year after 40 years in the computer industry and I just love building things, For a next Short Curcuit episode, could you get into OpAmps and build something like your Hard Drive ? Maybe start from a simple Over Drive and tweak it up. Thanks !

[@ThePicturesofyou]

Great episode dude !!! Thanks for sharing your pedal wisdom !!!

[@TheBlund1971]

thank you for being awesome

[@writewheel]

Built a Notaklon ... a brilliant kit and a fun fast build. Thanks Josh. :):)

[@Byron_Blue]

Nice breadboard!

[@thisisnotapipe6878]

Haha! Yes. I like the P. F Chang’s Seared Tuna appetizer thinger. I could order three of them in place of an entree

[@jtkidd7345]

One of my favorite fuzz pedals. Tied with the Wampler Leviathan.

[@RobbyMatthias]

Thanks' for these videos',Josh!Ordered my 'copper-sound-board' and 'power-supply',plus 'jumpers'!🥂Would love to see you do a 'JAX' fuzz!A Buddy of mine had a 'JAX', years' ago and it sounded phenomenal!You could get that (Greg Lake,ELP )"Barbarian" Fuzz-bass sound with that pedal.😉

[@poptopunderdog9690]

I'd love to see some more mods of existing pedals. I'd also like to see some tips on boxing the circuits.

[@shanealun]

I prefer the breadboard-from-scratch episodes instead of the mod-a-pedal ones

[@JeremyAndersonBoise]

New intro music and graphics go super-vapor hard

[@joermnyc]

I went nuts and tried the Sweet Tea on bass. I’d heard demos of the Moonshine, but not the Angry Charlie… holy cow the Angry Charlie is great for bass! I also like how stacking the Moonshine after throws so much clipping into diffrent clipping it sounds like a synth. (Moonshine first just sounds like stacking drives usually does.)

[@lucskywalk01]

Thank you so much for this series!! It has truly inspired me to dust off my electronics knowledge I learned in electrical trade school and apply it to pedal building. honestly it was quite humbling to know that pedals are harder to build as it seems, took me like 20 times to get a big muff curcuit working and I had to look like 100 times in each of the earlier live streams to see where I went wrong. Now as an aside, when will you get into building basic op amp curcuits? Would be interesting to see your take and kind of mindset when approaching building. Thank you for this incredible resource 🙏

[@DB-ob4so]

Please do the FF one knob variants! Maybe compare the more commons versions

[@ICanRideMiBikeWithNoHandleBars]

I’d buy a JHS DIY kit for all your series 3 pedals if you made those available. I enjoy soldering things. Please and thank you.

[@mikesalmo]

The Catalinbread Knight School series might be your jam. PCB, parts, and enclose with good instructions. I did their Jordan Bosstone style fuzz and love it.

[@davidowle3772]

WOOO WOO! New short circuit. Looks like I just missed the stream though. 😢

[@SoundObsessionSWE]

Love this series so much - I've watched every episode many many times over. I'd love to see You do Coloursound stuff, LOVE the sound of those (just found a tru-fi after years of looking for one in europe) as well as modifying/upgrading some dirt cheap noname ones. Question: Will you buy the Jack White Tricaster? best chris

[@hisproperty1438]

G'day Josh, Thanks for another great video. I had a question for the video's Q&A section, regarding the bypass signal for this circuit. Since I was late to the show, I checked out the Coppersound site, and found the bypass is part of the board's own circuit. I don't remember if you've mentioned it in the past, so it was a question. Maybe you could mention it in the future, including an extra circuit diagram showing the breadboard's part of the circuit. I would like to request that you leave the Fuzz Face circuit, and move on to a 3 or 4 transistor fuzz circuit. Maybe a lesson showing the Tone Bender Ver 2 circuit. Just a fuzz with a tone control, and NPN transistors. Thanks once again for a great video. I'm looking forward to the next SC show. Andrew

[@TjByers369]

1:36 Stream start

[@heathbarnhart1092]

Any chance of a video on how to take a circuit from a bread board and put it into a pedal?

[@toofusnook]

DO A VIDEO ABOUT FRANTONE!

[@dylanchristie1003]

Will you please show us how to build a Red Llama?

[@Aaron_Kep]

The Haunt Circuit is where the Ectoplasm Sauce is stored. 1:16:36

[@ekw555]

today I learned that JHD pedals is an anarcho-syndicalist commune . . .

[@thyreapermc5948]

For the next circuit, something Bucket Brigade based or channel blend.

[@Iskelasome]

Would it be possible for you to make a video about modding the Rat pedal?

[@terryeaster1]

I bought a bag of parts that's a tube headphone amp. I want to make it a tube blues driver type pedal

[@TheKvon]

Nicely done. Either option, but vote for schematics on vb-log with explanation (the gist) and breadboarding some mods. My attention dialed when you mentioned a the rat mod(s). Thanks JHS

[@jhspedals]

Thanks!

[@MichaelMadcock]

How about a reverb/chorus/tremolo type circuit next?

[@erichsixnine1796]

I'd like to see a Tone Bender 1.5 Just a thought

[@Aaron_Kep]

1 serious Q, 1 serious statement: Was the Discord server code given in this livestream? As for sticking with fuzz face and derivatives or moving on, I would be good with moving onto the next pedal that gets you motivated; we could always loop back to Red Crayon 🖍️ & Tone Bender. 1:19:35

[@jhspedals]

the link was dropped, but here it is again! discord.gg/tkpWBB43

[@taylormoon3561]

I love my 3 series fuzz but find the bias doesn’t quite have the range I want (the minimum setting is still too gated). Obviously changing the series resistor would help, but I’m wondering if there is enough variation in the transistors used that a different unit might actually have a slightly different range?

[@jacobblumenthal2545]

Oh I've been through the desert on a pot with no knob...

[@StryngsMagee]

Interesting how the breadboard is built right to left, while the schematic and electronics convention for signal flow is left to right. The original fuzzface and wha pedals have the input on the left and output on the right. I wonder when and why this convention changed as pedal design progressed thru history.

[@Sidpooply]

The evolution of enclosures would be a cool video

[@ctremblayservisys]

So right handed musicians doesn’t get tangled in their guitar cable.

[@thyreapermc5948]

@@StryngsMagee There is no left to right bias for electronic nerds, the rest of the world just found its own way interpret. ;)

[@russstedman]

How about a TB MKII? The first pedal I ever tried to build. I don’t recommend it as a starting point. 😂

[@littlehcollective]

Are there good points along the way to stop and test the signal? I’d rather know halfway through the circuit if something is connected incorrectly. EDIT: And then you hit the volume pot and tested!

[@schwag512]

Tone circuits. Show us tone circuits. 😊

[@JimMetzendorf]

I love my 3 Series Fuzz. I do have to dial the fuzz control slightly back from wide open. If I don’t, it picks up AM radio stations.

[@KyleDunnMusic]

Does it have to be an el pato can for my jumpers? Lol

[@jhspedals]

yes, absolutely. that's what makes it sound the best.

[@I.M.Guitar-Nerd]

Mod a Rat!

[@jtkidd7345]

Modify a rat. Give him two heads and two tails.

[@Ralymusic]

You are copying my dad Jacques Pedals, he just started to do this kind of video and now you do the same… And I know you had a story with him with his delay pedal the Prisoner too…

[@diodesDankessAndDives]

500th like woooooo

[@NoHandle-s1h]

So am I the only one who thinks if feels like sacrilege to put a control on the pedal that you could do with your guitar?

[@Seekandtune]

It's not exactly the same thing. There is a difference.