Doc Music Station Vintage Fuzz BC108

The Doc Music Station Vintage Fuzz BC108 is a fuzz pedal from Doc Music Station, named for the BC108 transistor at its core. It was featured and reviewed positively by Pedal of the Day on May 28, 2015, in the site's Fuzz category, with reviewer Kyle Ragan's write-up introduced as "another great review from our buddy Kyle Ragan."¹

What it does

As a fuzz, the pedal takes the guitar's signal and clips it heavily in the manner of the classic two-transistor fuzz designs. The BC108 in its name points to the silicon transistor type used in vintage fuzz face circuits, as Josh of JHS Pedals put it in a demo discussion of the part: "this is like vintage fuzz faces."² That lineage is the pedal's selling point: a silicon fuzz voiced around a transistor type players associate with the classic British fuzz sound of the late sixties.

For players comparing options in the broader field of fuzz pedals, the BC108 sits on the silicon side of the silicon-versus-germanium divide, which generally means more consistent behavior from unit to unit and with temperature than germanium parts.

Related pedals

Other current-production pedals also build on the BC108 silicon transistor. Chase Tone's Blue Stardust BC108 Silicon Fuzz is one example, and the company's Fuzz Fella Blue BC108C is another, both from Chase Tone's product pages.³⁴

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