so i built my fuzz face with germanium transistors after i was lucky enough to find a couple that actually had the right gain ratings and it sounds amazing and all great but when i turn the volume ON MY GUITAR down low it gets me a wierd noise like feedback that you would get from a marshall amp in full volume if you would turn with the guitar in front of it but as i turn the volume on the guitar up the noise is gone and it's all fuzz again. what could this be? i checked this at a friend's house as well and the same problem all over again so it can't be the guitar, amp or cables.
any ideaS?
ok your FF is oscillating...
im not 100% on how to fix this, but put a small value cap (100pf, 220pf) across the collectors of the transistors. see how that goes.
cheers
Jim