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Dude, the whole gang of you that walked me through the Grunge troubleshooting are basically the reason I'm still making pedals. The first few passes I took at trying to fix that thing befor posting in the forum nearly convinced me to give up on the whole shebang. Glad I didn't!

I should probably post individual build reports as I go along, but when I'm neck-deep in a batch of builds, I tend to get tunnel vision, so here's a quick rundown of what I've been up to for the past couple of months. Full disclosure: I haven't done any artwork yet. I bought a set of acrylic...

So I'm not overly familiar with the statistical likelihood of finding good matches for a particular pedal by buying a random lot of transistors off of ebay, but based on some of the comments above, I'm wondering if this would lead to two usable transistors...

So as I was poking around online, I came across these at Small Bear: https://smallbear-electronics.mybigcommerce.com/2n1302-germanium-transistor-npn-rca/ If I got one in the 51-60 Hfe range and another in the 61-70 range, would these be reasonable substitutes? The internet tells me their...

Hi All, I made the classic mistake of impulse buying a PCB a while back--in this case the Muffin Factory--and while I'm excited to take on such a complex build, I didn't check the components before pulling the trigger. Now I'm realizing that the 106NU70 germanium NPN transistors are pretty much...

This is the one I used: https://drill.taydakits.com/box-designs/new?public_key=aTVxa1BsNnMwZ2t5QklVc0tvcEtrdz09Cg==

I've been making progress on my latest round of builds, but with most of them, I tend to stop once the PCBs are populated and save them all for final wiring and assembly at the end. I could tell about halfway through the 6-Band EQ (slider version) that there was no stopping halfway, mostly due...

I gotta get me some of those!

Thanks for the info! I think I might go with the 1N34A diodes since 1) they're magical, and 2) they've got the cool blue stripe. :ROFLMAO:

I had a strong suspicion this would be the answer, but I figured better to ask than assume. :) A sort of follow-up question, I guess: even if the forward voltage for these two sets won't make a difference, what would the general difference between lower and higher forward voltage be in a hard...

Hi All, So I'm getting ready to start work on my Notakliche, and as I was going through my germanium diodes, I found a couple of options: 1. Two 1N34A diodes with forward voltage of .377 and .388 respectively. 2. Two D9E diodes with exact matching forward voltage of .280. A little internet...

I can neither confirm nor deny that theory. :cool:

That thought has definitely crossed my mind! :ROFLMAO:

I haven't been doing build reports for each pedal as I've gone along, but wrapping up 20 builds seemed like a good moment to stop and share my results so far: I posted troubleshooting threads about a couple of these, and I did post a build report on the Shade of Night pedal, just becAcause it...

I actually just placed my next PCB order: I decided to knock out the remaining JHS clones I didn't have and then start down a few new and interesting paths. I'm particularly excited about the Cepheid Chorus and the Parentheses Fuzz! (I also can never get enough of the Big Muff variants.) :)

This is helpful. I haven't had much reason to sort through the nuance of continuity checking beyond "beep" or "no beep." :) Yeah, I honestly have no idea what the underlying issue was or why the jumper wire fixed it. Given my reflowing and swapping of a few components, I'd like to think it...

Ha! Yeah, it probably would've been slightly more rewarding to finally get my first Klon clone or something like that working, but honestly, one of the reasons I ordered the Butt Head was because I'd read so many articles and watched so many videos about what a bizarre pedal the original Grunge...

PS--While I'm still interested in hearing any thoughts about the noisiness, my own research suggests this pedal is functioning as expected. The weird squeal went away once I fully assembled everything, and the noise, while still considerable, seems a bit more manageable now with some careful...

Okay, so it took a bit longer than I expected to get back to the work bench, but I've got some good news and some additional questions. First, though, here are a few answers I promised (in case anyone finds this thread down the road and wants to follow the bread crumbs): IC1 voltages are as...

I was originally going to go with red, but my wife said that Toothless's eyes are green, so the knobs should be green. As usual, she's the one who's correct!