For The Love Of Gawd, What Is With This Boost Section

[cdwillis]

I can only imagine someone with no formal electrical engineering education trying to build some kind of circuit from an old textbook and discovering that connecting the emitter directly to ground increased the gain and made it clean up better with a guitar's volume pot.

 

[Feral Feline]

... why is it that most emitters are connected straight to ground, then? ...

This is like standing at the edge of a small bay and saying:
"Gosh, the Atlantic Ocean sure is small..."
...It is a false assumption based on incomplete data.

From my perspective, standing at a different "bay", I see most emitters having a resistor between them and ground;
however, I don't know what's beyond the horizon because I can't see that far.

 

[Ginsly]

This is like standing at the edge of a small bay and saying:
"Gosh, the Atlantic Ocean sure is small..."
...It is a false assumption based on incomplete data.

From my perspective, standing at a different "bay", I see most emitters having a resistor between them and ground;
however, I don't know what's beyond the horizon because I can't see that far.

Well I’m glad Harry is getting a good laugh out of all of this! I’m still just 18 months in here, folks. Gotta ask some dumb questions, and say some dumb things!

And @Feral Feline you’re absolutely right- I guess I was just taking about the transistors in your standard Fuzzrite and some other fuzzes I’ve looked at recently. Kinda misspoke!

 

[mybud]

Well I’m glad Harry is getting a good laugh out of all of this! I’m still just 18 months in here, folks. Gotta ask some dumb questions, and say some dumb things!

And @Feral Feline you’re absolutely right- I guess I was just taking about the transistors in your standard Fuzzrite and some other fuzzes I’ve looked at recently. Kinda misspoke!

It’s all part of the learning curve, brother.

Jack Orman’s book on the Big Muff (Amazon Kindle) explains the effects of bias clearly (in such layman’s terms that even I understand). Worth checking it to assuage your curiosity, perhaps.

 

[Feral Feline]

Well I’m glad Harry is getting a good laugh out of all of this! I’m still just 18 months in here, folks. Gotta ask some dumb questions, and say some dumb things!

And @Feral Feline you’re absolutely right- I guess I was just taking about the transistors in your standard Fuzzrite and some other fuzzes I’ve looked at recently. Kinda misspoke!

I'm still asking and learning and saying silly things, I've got a few years on you from when I started but probably less builds .

Saw a post on another forum about a guy who plugs straight into his amp because he finds pedals tend to affect his sound — yup.
I guess that's why they're called effects pedals. At least he knew when to use "affect" and "effect".


I wouldn't say you misspoke, you simply relayed your experience; I was just pointing out there's more out there to be experienced.


Okay, I'm off to stir up trouble elsewhere on the forum...