Your favourite non-NKT275 Ge transistors for a fuzzface?

[Coolhand78]

What's your favourite non-NKT275 Germanium transistor for a fuzzface?
There's a few out there doing different things ATM Steve Williams has been using OC81s and NKT MT75F's of late I believe? Caesar Diaz used NTE103's which there doesn't seem to be much info on? The Joe Bonamssa FF by Jorge Tripps uses some NOS Russian military ones...

But in your experience what's been some of your favourites?

[Doc Holliday]

BC183L are cool

[freddy_von]

Whatever Marc-Eric used in the Stone Skull work well. The pedal sounds great!

[Idle South]

Mine from Mr. Castledine can't be beat. OC72's

https://youtu.be/UaGF7l1KhDk

[superslidetail]

I like the NTE103, 2N404, CV7003, and CV7005.

[Laundromat]

I've found a lot of types that get extremely to my two Fuzz Faces, as long as the parameters are right. I've used AC128s, OC7x and OC8x series, plus some CV variants. NKT, Mullard, Philips, Valvo, TI, ASM, what have you...
Personally I'd rather use ones with the exact values I like, rather than try to force the "correct" type to work. Of course I'd rather use NKT275 every time, but I prefer using another part if it gets me spot-on soundwise.

[Radiotron]

Good experience with: AC128, OC42, OC72, MT57F, NKT212, NKT214
Plenty of great sounding Japanese transistors out there too.

[Doc Holliday]

I suppose also it depends what you like from your fuzz face.
I've had a variety over the years. All good but if I could have mixed a few tones from pedal to pedal. Always lacking something that I was searching for...
the cut of a castledine with Texas instrument trannys, the bass response of the Cornell first fuzz, the clean up of a sweet sound Monterey fuzz, and I'm not mad on when they sound like an Octavias been added to the mix.

I'm just to hard to please with a fuzz face

[Radiotron]

I like to tune mine for a bit more clarity and cut as I find the stock circuit to have a bit too much low-end muddiness for my taste.
That also very much depends on the transistors of course. OC42’s for instance have quite a bit more high-end presence than, say, the AC128 or the NKT’s.

[Coolhand78]

I like to tune mine for a bit more clarity and cut as I find the stock circuit to have a bit too much low-end muddiness for my taste.
That also very much depends on the transistors of course. OC42’s for instance have quite a bit more high-end presence than, say, the AC128 or the NKT’s.

by "tuning" do you mean that play around with different values of resistors, possibly the biasing ones? or caps as well?