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My first post- bear with me.

I'm wanting to start understanding how individual portions of circuitry work together to make certain sounds. As much as I know how the BYOC kits and the like might be a better place to start, I doubt I'd feel as accomplished to step-by-step a LEGO Muff as I would making something unique that took some level of understanding.

TL;DR: I'm hoping to build the "Fuzz II" circuit from the Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz, hardwired to be full-tilt with maybe a level pot. As far as I can tell, it's modelled after the Univox SuperFuzz. I can see the similarities in the schematics, but can't quite isolate what part of the chain is my target.

I'm not looking for a handout schematic (that would be so rad...), but if someone could point me in the direction of some reading material or help me figure this whole shebang out, it would be much appreciated.

you can start with a breadboard. you will get instant results with understanding what each resistor or transistor does as you socket them and swap them out. start with something easy like a bazz fuss. or you could do what I did and start reading craploads of forums and books on the subject. I also learned from the breadboard but I can tell you that the reading helped more. you can breadboard to find the transistor and component values that work best in that circuit but you really need to read some things before you can design a circuit from scratch. I can't tell you everything in this post cause I would be here all day. just start reading. start here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_emitter and just click on any blue word if you don't know what it means. other than that, http://www.geofex.com/ and http://beavisaudio.com/

good luck!