Recent content by andare

I have a Pinecil, similar to the TS101, and use a 65W 20V phone charger with a PD USB port. This was the maximum power the iron accepted when I bought it.

It's totally arbitrary but to me any value below 100uA is low leakage and any value above 200uA I consider high leakage. Usually if it's about 500uA the transistor will be almost unusable either because of excessive gating or excessive hiss. In my experiments, biasing low-leakage transistors...

High leakage Fuzz Face = Tone Bender 1.5 You should get high voltage on Q2c around 8V. And then you add the first stage and you have a TBII. So you need leaky germaniums to understand what the fuss is all about, none of that silicon riff raff :)

You can also use this daughterboard with built-in boost https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/pcb633/

This is a silicon Fuzzrite so it's thin and it struggles to reach unity. You can increase the 22k resistor to ground for more bass. A good idea is to put it on a switch so you can get a bass and volume boost, the latter depending on your amp. Put it on a foot switch with a dedicated LED maybe...

From what I've seen high leakage (>100uA) gives 7 to 8 volts on Q2c and that makes it sound crispier than a Fuzz Face. This one sounds dangerous! Great work!

No transistor readings and no demo, what a tease! Don't leave use blueballed like this, mano :)

Perfect drilling I say! Did you match the caps and resistors in the octave section for maximum octavageness? My Squidward stopped working BTW. I built it with the Intelligent Relay board to totally rip off the EQD Tentacle but the cheap switch crapped out on me. I trashed the board and built a...

Looks like in later revisions they added the resistor and cap in the power section and the 100pF to reduce noise. I just built mine and it's still noisy like many silicon fuzzes. It picks up faint radio signals and a ticking sound even when it's the only pedal in the chain. No idea where the...

Can't read this without hearing the jingle.

Mike Love for his political views. Josh Scott for the old stuff about Devi Ever and the church?

Are those the pliers you use to bend it? They look so groovy! I wish I had workshop space like you guys...

Wow so clean! The plate is so dope. Is it riveted? How does that work?

Really cool! I have my board ready and I just got a brown 1590BB. No way to do artwork for me but I have the same knob and boy am I gonna use it :)

C1K is just the best for dialing in the amount of fuzz just right, especially for silicon FFs.