Recent content by comradehoser

Out of curiosity... Why germanium transistors, particularly?

Success! Thanks, folks! It ended up being a combo of braid, solder sucker, and gentle persuasion that did the trick!

Yeah, I already tried that twice, but no go and now I'm paranoid of frying the pads. Thanks, though, I appreciate the suggestion

Thanks, folks! Will try your suggestions--I forgot I have desoldering braid, will give it a go. Desoldering needles is a first for me! Dovetails--I totally would have gone the snipping route, but the transformer body is sitting right over everything. I'd have to destroy it and knowing me...

I have a very stubborn 6-pin transformer that won't GTFO of my Neurocyton board. I already had a Neurocyton board that sounded like ass, so I went at it again with a new board, put in the MMBF JFETS in ascending order of IDSS, took special care to solder everything correctly. Aaaaand, being a...

That sounds pretty rad. I will definitely check it out. Might be a while, though. I have a backlog of PTP projects: Boneyard (BY) diamond peak, natch Ok doomer (priority downgrade after breadboarding) Nein fuzz Moonn she Ra Figbuster BY fudge factory BY tube Bender deluxe BY hellbender...

Very amp-like and very responsive to/ expressive of guitar elements. Big range of gain from light edge of breakup to gainy clipping. Can do tight chugs, can do doomy fuzzyness. The bass and treble knobs are key.

Well looky here at what I made this evening with some sweet and massive mojo parts kindly gifted to me by @jwin615 that he acquired from a defunct police radio repair shop. Lots of crazy things like an N-D MOS (???), capacitors rolled in paper, and transistors I've never heard of. And very...

Good to know even legends have their off days.

Update on the fizz and the J201s: I really disliked the fizzyness, so I desoldered the j201s and tried switching the order. Still fizzy. Then I put in some sockets and tried doing substitutions with through-hole J201s (~38-46 IDSS--my through-hole j201s by interfet are much more consistent...

Like so:

Even then, you can just bend cap legs to fit. The cap will sit proud, but as long as the legs aren't touching each other/other metal, it will work fine. I've not paid attention to sizes and ended up having to make "capacitor gardens" before.

Apparently they especially love a good little SMD component

It's basically an earlier version of this, but I never clear coated it, so it's faded. I'll redo it or figure out a graphic that will go along with the extra pot. I do have a tendency to leave my enclosures unfinished, though.

Totally cool, Michael. I appreciate a good derailment. On a derailment of the derailment, I've noticed a high end fizziness especially with the treble boost engaged, with both of my last builds. It is not present in my through hole builds. I really don't like it. Could be the standing...