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Suggestion: Take a pic of the guts, mirror it and use that for a decal on top. Damn that's pure hawtness.

The first thing to do is get a digital multimeter and measure the voltages on the pins of all the 8-legged chips and report them here.

I think I'm going to have to quit my job so I can keep up with building all the cool circuits you come up with, Chuck. Love everything about this one. That breadboard setup is super slick, too. Are the aluminum rails glued to the board? Don't see any screws.

$6 and Limit 3? Gotta up your game, Electric Goldmine. Imagine the sheer elegance of your Fuzz Face in one of these $1 salad bowls from the Dollar Store:

Say, Chuck, where would you buy components back in those days?

I probably watched that demo 20 times when you finished that thing. One of my all time favorite amp builds.

Dunno about yours, but what I've got on my board is eerily low noise.

Would it be worth it to add a small resistor in series from D1 to C9?

My best friend lives near Houston, but his kids wanted to go with their friends to a weeklong summer camp in Montana. Met my buddy in Missoula, and after we dropped off the boys, hit the road for a nearly 3,000 mile, 5-state ramble. These are my two favorite pics for contrast. The first one is...

Great stuff. I literally smacked my face reading that bit about flattening the Muff stack by making the values match. It's so obvious when you put it that way, but I never thought about it like that before.

Did my own project. I'm talking about the MacGUffin build. Tube preamp pedals are getting more popular and there are more options out there. Two notes even makes their own line and you can get them reasonably cheap second hand. There's also a DIY'er with a company called sushi box FX and at...

Mentioned this in another thread, but I love my Two Notes Cab M+. I use it with a tube preamp I built. The Cab M + and Iridium are both DSP. I chose the M+ because it costs less and lets you bypass the built in preamp so I can use my own. Headphone out is very good and has an aux in for playing...

Hakko 888 would be my suggestion. Amazing bargain for about $100.

I'm still using the Two Notes Cab M+ and highly recommend it. There's no DIYing something like that, though. They have some very sophisticated reverbs built in and it's pretty easy to tweak them to get a lot closer to the sound of being in a room with an amp. The sound quality is better than a...

Sometimes you just get lucky - very lucky. 6+ months later and this thing is still going strong. I've even accidentally left it powered for more than 24 hours straight more than once and had no issues whatsoever. I'd probably like to do another one or two preamps like this down the road - maybe...

Got mine updated to the latest version this morning. I tried to set it up so the bias pot full on was loudest/smoothest and all the way off is 80's toy "8-bit" sound. Fun. As. Hell. What I did is swap the bias pot the other way around, turn it all the way up, then adjust TR1 until the collector...

Found an AC176 today, threw it in there and sounded/worked great. It's worked with every transistor I've thrown at it. I've got one that noticeably lower gain, but it still works and sounds pretty good. Unfortunately, one of my AC127s crapped out. Was playing nice for about 10 seconds, then...

Sorry, I should have expanded a bit more. I didn't try to get the transistor hot. It felt just a bit warmer than the air. Rushed it back to the breadboard, popped it in, and the fuzz sounded the same. Yeah, not all scientific, lol. However, in the past, I've noticed even a 5-10 degree change in...

I held Q1 up against a hot tube and put it back in and got pretty much the same result.

Nah, the film is C1. I used electrolytic for C6, but I could try an MLCC for that. Only had one 2u2 film cap.