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What’s going on with the jumper wires? It looks like the input on the relay PCB and the +9v are hard wired to ground, inter alia. Obviously that’s not what is going on, but I’m curious what is going on.

Same here.

It wouldn’t hurt to post a picture of the inside of the pedal. There are a number of other things besides the semiconductors that could cause the same issue.

I don’t have a bass at the moment, so I have not tried it. I would expect that it would work well, as there is a wide range of input and output capacitors on the rotary switches. It loses a lot of its magic if you place it after a buffer, so just make sure that the bass has passive pickups. I...

Putting the finishing touches on this take on the Hudson Broadcast/Dylan159 Narrowcast. It's got a germanium Q2 (with a few resistor tweaks to accommodate it), a charge pump, and a switch to select between 9v and 24v operation.

It looks like a silicon diode (there isn't the whisker and pellet setup that you usually see in a germanium diode). My Google searches suggest that it's a Sylvania equivalent to NTE116, which in turn is equivalent to the 1N400x family of rectifier diodes.

I think that post disappeared sometime around last October when @Robert made some changes to the Wish List subforum.

If you aren't already, try biasing with a trim pot on either the collector of Q1 or the emitter of Q2 (with the fuzz pot wired as a variable resistor in series with the emitter bypass capacitor). It won't change the tone or output volume nearly as much as using a trim pot on the collector of Q2...

Get yourself a used Herman Miller Aeron and call it a day. Where I live, there is generally a good selection of them on Craigslist for well under $300. I’ve tried a lot of other office/gaming chairs, and none of them have been as comfortable or good for my posture. They’re build very well, too...

Give the R.G. Keen method a try.

Those gains are great for fuzz pedals. I bought a hundred 2N1304 a while back and they had been great everywhere I used them.

Hola, esperamos que no seas un bot, jaja. ¿Qué tipo de circuito es tu proyecto?

You can also put your probe on the end of the resistor that connects to the collector of Q2.

That's been my thinking, too. (Admittedly, I also have mocked up a design for a consolidated I/O and relay bypass PCB, but that's kept me from pulling the trigger and ordering it.) Having separate boards for relay bypass also makes it easier when you're doing something like a Megalith or a Hoof...

I think that @szukalski may have made one like that, so it’s definitely doable