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pretty much, yep. unless one day i decide to start doing some noisecore weird shit with loopers and whatever else on a collapsing card table hahaha cheers 🤙🏻

admittedly, i really didn’t need to build this. not sure why i got sucked into dropping it in the cart. maybe it was the sight of the troubleshooting threads and thinking, surely it can’t be that much of a big deal. or maybe it was the build documentation that really sells this as a whopper...

well, to be fair, it does have a leg up over the multimeter for measuring pF values, and a lot of scenarios where using leads isn’t convenient.

alright here's the MkII layout the GT404Bs - at 11x18 mm, are not small, so arranged the layout assuming clearances for them to lie down on the board.

that’s pretty much all i’ll be able to with it. but at least it does silicon BJTs alright. i wouldn’t be recommending them to people though.

mine won’t even recognize germanium transistors as BJTs. just comes up with diodes. fucken waste of $20

works for cheese!

if you want big low end - you want the fuzz face/1.5 - it will handle and retain it. MkII does cut some lows. my experience with MkI is that it just lays down on the train tracks begging for the sweet mercy of death at the sight of any low end content. if you've ever seen that description...

well, someone has to love it. just went through some more demos and i’m hearing a common theme from this family of Mk1/Zonk: - somewhat gated - overly saggy - that ‘velcro’ / stickyness descriptor - ducking under power chord / big low end. none of which are things i look for or enjoy in a fuzz...

i'm the reverse, used to love my old DS-1 (bought in 2005). first pedal i ever bought. played the heck out of it and made it do everything into a solid state bass amp when i was too poor to get a real guitar amp. but now the love just isn't quite there. i bought one to re-check and yeah nah. is...

never considered that moisture could get inside these lil guys. what about silica beads?

not sure, I haven’t tried that one yet.

my first attempt at mkii a few months ago didn’t go so well, and i reckon it’s 100% because the transistors i was using didn’t have enough leak (and gain probably), cos yeah it was gated and shitty. but this time, i’ve got heaps more sustain and wiggle room in the bias/voltages and now its...

following the success and satisfaction i’ve had playing with the fuzz face, i thought i might have a go at a mk1 tone bender.... 😅 i’d recently got a bag of GT404B NPN Ge, measured them up, with good gains (60-110) and relatively high leakage (160-200ish). (although these values might be a...

heck yes 🤙🏻 horizontal layouts rule!

oh. i see what you mean. good call. yeah nah, it’s wired as per the schematic.

are you sure about that?

since I felt this circuit was worth highlighting, i decided it was most relevant to post about it on this thread. firstly, many thanks to @Robert for making the schematic available so soon 🙏 initial speculations on the circuit/build discussed here...

doubtful that it matters. i could plop some different opamps in the one i’ve breadboarded and see if there’s any difference? so far 4558 and LF353 sounds prettty good!