I’ll record something later, but the transistors read really close to the real deal, Q1 hFE 33, leakage close to 0, q2 hFE 55, leakage in the 80-100s, Q3 hFE 200, leakage around 180 (all measured yesterday, a cold day around here)
Here is another mojo-tastic build. Used a pair of Tungsram AC128 for this - I hate this transistor on Fuzz Faces, but sounds great on a I.5!
And a short video showing its clean up:
I made a project for a smaller sized wedge enclosure with the jacks on the same profile as the other hardware and board goes, because I was always annoyed with wiring floating between the two parts of the regular Bender/Zonk enclosure. For the circuit I used a vintage specs stripboard I got made...
A customer who works as a sound engineer/producer at Globo (the most important Brazilian tv channel) asked me to build him a dual Shallow Water so he could run it in stereo. The build took me the almost 10 hours (and it included some troubleshooting in the PCB that goes in the lower side 🤬) but...
Got some heavier gauge solid bus wire from Amplified Parts and felt the urge to try my hand building one of those again. This time I went with Philips BC109c for the transistors. It’s a great sounding fuzz for such a low parts count pedal!
I had this knobs for almost a year and never got something cool to do with them, but got the idea for the red lines in the artwork, over a dark background and things started to look good!
The low leakage of the transistors are key for a low noise floor here, OC139/140 sounds really good too...
I really love treble bosters and I’ve been experimenting with Range Masters and Red Roosters for a few months and wanted to do an Sabbath related artwork. The transistor of choice was an Tesla 156NU70. Sounds really good with a really low noise floor.