Description
Eric Johnson didn’t just slap his name on a stock Fuzz Face — he sat down with Jeorge Tripps and reverse-engineered his own beloved vintage units until the circuit matched them note for note. The EJf1 uses hand-selected BC183 silicon transistors chosen for extra gain and harmonic bite, so the fuzz stacks up thick without turning to mush. Dial the Fuzz knob back and you get a woolly, vocal drive that still lets pick attack through; push it and the top end blooms into that swirling, saturated haze Johnson associates with his earliest Hendrix worship. Because the gain structure is so touch-sensitive, this pedal rewards players who dig in and back off with their picking hand rather than relying on knob tweaks alone.
- Footswitch: on/bypass
- Volume: sets overall output
- Fuzz: dials in fuzz intensity
Dressed in a vintage-correct hammertone finish with custom repro ’68-’69 knobs, it looks the part sitting near the front of a board — right where a germanium-style fuzz belongs, ahead of any buffered pedals or wah, since Fuzz Face circuits are notoriously fussy about what’s upstream. Runs on a single 9V battery accessed via the bottom plate; unplug your cable when not in use to save it. True hardwire bypass keeps your signal clean when the effect is off.
Specs: Input impedance 10k, Output impedance @ 1kHz 2K, Max output level -1.4 dBm, Max gain 500uA @ 9VDC (all figures ±10%).
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