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At least you picked up the $9 discount, lol

Report back on the readouts for all 8 legs of the chips starting with the upper left corner and working CCW.

Do you have a multimeter? That will help check voltages on the chips.

Clean the tracks with your iron. There look to be some bridges in there or it could just be the pick. Has the layout been verified?

Poster tack or Velcro. Boards can be easily moved with either

Reflow your solder joints. Some of them look cold or not enough solder. See if you can trim down some of those some more for, you know, neatness. I’ve got this board in my backlog, so I’m hoping you get things working and post a build report.

To learn the basics of opamps try breadboarding a mini muffin fuzz (inverting) and a Dist + (non inverting). There are breadboard tutorials in the Test Kitchen here to guide you in the right direction.

There’s only 1 place for hate around here

Post a link to this build in the PHB thread for this to count as a submission. Otherwise it YABR (yet another build report)

Just so I understand correctly, if I have a buffer before a FF (say a buffered bypass tuner) I counter the effect of the buffer by putting a small resistor in series before the input of the FF?

This forum is weird when posting pics directly from your phone (assuming that’s what you’re doing). You’ll need to edit the pics, rotate them in any direction, save it, re-edit and rotate them back to the original orientation, and save again. Pics should post just fine after that

Dumb question, but what does this circuit do?

Layout looks ok to me

You may be right. I don’t have enough experience with leakage and Germaniums to confirm. I tend to just use more modern components. Maybe that’s why all my fuzz faces suck

Base needs some dc voltage to turn the transistor on and open the channel between collector and emitter. Take a look at a lpb-1 or muff stage to see what I mean.

You’ll have a tough time squeezing 2 diode leads in one hole. Might want to rethink your layout. Also curious how it works without biasing the base pin.

What is the definition of “gain” here? For example, in a distortion circuit gain in reality is compression in conjunction with signal clipping.

Increase R7 or R4. Or change the diodes with lower Vf

I haven’t heard anyone talking about homestarrunner in years! Nice build.

Thanks, guys. I'm always on the lookout for some good chugs. The Black Eye may be my next project (after my lead solder OD of course).