Recent content by kerryfine

Full demo with a few different channels on the Mesa Boogie Mark V90 to show how it adds a lot of thickness to the gain structure.

After building this one on perfboard a few months ago, I finally finished and received the enclosure to complete the build. Relatively happy with the appearance but the text doesn’t stand out as much as I’d like. Also the bottom left “Warning Contains Germanium” is hard to see. Overall good...

Appreciate that! I’m glad it ended up working out as expected and gave me the confidence to build some other combo pedals 😁 thanks for the help when I was trying to figure it out

Nice Build and art! Good taste in fuzz 🤘🏻

Fuzzes sure are addicting. One under the radar one I liked breadboarding was the Elka Dizzytone, although don’t think there’s a PCB here for it

Don’t get so held up on the component number for Ge transistors, just the hfe and leakage. Then try different transistors out in a circuit and you’ll get some different sounds so can experiment to see what you like best.

Search YouTube for some demos then of the different Ge fuzz circuits offered here and see what is in line with the sound you’re looking for. As you mentioned the Harmonic Percolator, that’s always a good choice. Uses a PNP Ge and is still negative ground so you can connect to a standard DC...

It is important to determine whether each is PNP or NPN. Also looking at data sheets to confirm pinouts when building with them. And finally leakage would be an important value to measure for each. Not sure how you determined hfe, but if it was just using a multimeter transistor hfe measurement...

I think that’s probably it. Sounds familiar. I took such a long break from then to starting back up this past year

I miss the days of these fancy colors (I forget where I got them but was back in 2007-8)

Have been on a candy kick- have ordered candy red, candy blue, and candy gold. I think candy pink is next if it comes back in stock

Yea I had to deal with my fiance so I couldn’t spend unlimited time that I wanted, but got very lucky. I’m sure there’s more out there, there’s so many alleys and buildings that probably harbor more goodies. And that’s right, 30 bucks! Here are some other goodies I saw but the price wasn’t right...

Love the colors and style! The sparkle looks great, I’m a sucker for sparkle enclosures.

Lmao let me tell you it wasn’t as easy as Josh (JHS) made it look. I was going vendor to vendor with translation on my phone to “germanium transistor.” No one had any clue, I just had to keep my eyes peeled looking through the glass cases.

Octave up nasty fuzz: