![]() ![]() ![]() But they had stustain and fire to their sound. I built up some NPN silicon prototypes and found that they were kind of noisy and very bright. Most of the vintage samples sounded good one day and crappy another day. I wanted to use the PNP germanium circuit, if possible. I had AC128s, NKT275s, BC108Cs, BC109Cs and a bunch of others. Other people sent me transistors to try out. I was able to borrow some vintage FFs from people. I got lots of input from different guitarists and effects collectors all over the country and in England. In mid-1986, I got the word around that we were going to start making FFs again. ![]() I got them working and sold them off for something like $30.00 each. These things were original stock, still in their boxes from the late '60s. Meanwhile, I also came across two boxes containing Dallas Arbiter TremFaces. So I start to put the wheels in motion for the new FuzzFace reissue. I went to the President and owner of Crest (a wonderful English man named John Lee) and presented the idea. I thought it would be cool to start making them again. It was about a half inch taller than the original FuzzFaces and the transistors were BC109C. It turns out the FF that I was checking out was a reissue from 1976. I cranked it up and I sounded like Hendrix. I tried messing around with the blue FF again and found that by changing the 8.2K resistor to 6.2K, I was able to get a decent sound out of it. I tossed around the idea of the FuzzFace for awhile. I was working for the company that manufactured FuzzFaces in the mid-late '60s! How cool is that! By this time the company had moved on to manufacturing professional high-end mixing consoles and power amps, which they still do today. Dallas Music Industries ( DMI) used to be Dallas Arbiter. My paychecks said Dallas Music Industries on them. It turns out that Crest Audio used to be Dallas Music Industries. From what he wrote, I figured there must be something wrong with the FF that I had tried out. Meanwhile, I found an article in Guitar Player magazine by Craig Anderton which was all about the FuzzFace. I wrote it off as a piece of crap and moved on. If I hit the strings hard, I got a farting noise out of it. I put a battery in the FF and tried it out. The next day I brought in my Fender Strat and Fender Backstage 30 practice amp. ![]() It was blue, nearly two inches tall in height and it said Dallas Music Industries on the mouth. One day while I was looking for parts in the one of the stock rooms, I came across a FuzzFace. I was 21 years old and I had the job of QC technician for their Mixing Console lines, which included new Crest Audio consoles and Kelsey consoles. I started working for Crest Audio in fall of 1984. ![]()
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