Description
Eric Johnson didn’t just slap his name on a stock Fuzz Face — he sat down with circuit-bending veteran Jeorge Tripps and picked apart his own vintage units until every detail matched what he’d been chasing since he first plugged into one at age 12. The EJ-F1 is the payoff: a silicon Fuzz Face built around hand-selected BC183 transistors chosen for extra gain and touch-sensitivity, wrapped in a vintage hammertone shell with reproduction ’68-’69 style knobs.
This isn’t a polite, tame fuzz. It’s the thick, harmonically loaded, slightly unpredictable sound that defined psychedelic guitar tone in the hands of players like Hendrix — dig in and it blooms, back off and it cleans up, all from your pick attack and guitar volume. Johnson calls it the pinnacle of that fuzz sound, and once you’ve rolled the two knobs into your own sweet spot, it’s hard to disagree.
Controls
- Footswitch — toggles between effect and true bypass
- Volume — sets overall output level
- Fuzz — dials in the intensity of the fuzz character
Power
Runs on a single 9V battery, accessed by unscrewing the bottom plate. Unplug your cable from the input jack when it’s not in use to keep battery drain in check.
Specs
- Input impedance: 10k
- Output impedance @ 1kHz: 2K
- Maximum output level: -1.4 dBm
- Maximum gain: 500uA @ 9VDC
- True hardwire bypass
- All specs +/- 10%
This unit is gently used and in good working order — a great entry point into genuine Eric Johnson fuzz tone without paying new-in-box prices.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.