2N404A pinout?

Started by 10acErnie, October 02, 2005, 10:45:24 PM

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10acErnie

I'm building  the GGG Fuzz Face and I ordered the Fuzz Face transistor pair from Smallbear. One of the tranny's is a 2N404A and the other has what appears to be  1N1DPC (?) on it. Does anyone know the pinout for these trannys?

Sgt_Rutters

The TI 2N404's I have are pinned out with the tab marking the emitter, the center one is the base and the other side is the collector.  I would imagine the "A" wouldn't change the pinout....

10acErnie

Thanks Sgt! That's it.
Got it all together, this pedal sounds amazing!

Sgt_Rutters

Awesome!  You do any mods to it, or just build the normal Fuzz Face circuit? 

10acErnie

This was the normal FF circuit. I put the trannies in sockets so I can try them with other builds. This pair is pretty high gain, 147 & 184 but they sound great, a little muddy on the low notes, but still very cool.
I just ordered a matched pair of lower gain trannies from Pete Roberts. I'm curious to hear the difference.
I've had several original FF's and I don't remember any sounding this good!