the pcb is attached to the Fuzz pot and the volume of the Zen drive + about a dozen other spots with my jumpers bent at right angles. for the transistors i was planning on getting some clear heat shrink tube and put it around the body of each transistor to keep them from touching. using germanium transistors forced me to adjust the Q1 biasing resistor R2 i had to drop it down 15k for my Q1 to hit around .7-.8v i didnt have to change anything for Q2 i was able to hit 4.5-5v with the trimmer , Q1Hfe is 84 Q2 Hfe is 140. i have played a bit on it and it sounds really nice but i need to go over the clipping section on the Zen Drive once more its not sounding like it did on my breadboard, i think i put my Bat 46 in the place i wanted a Bat 41 also im wanting to adjust a couple other values i thought i was happy with on the breadboard but not so much now .
C4 is kinda odd, ive seen a few schematics show C4 going to ground as a low-pass filter not as is a high pass filter as PedalPCB has it . that change seemed to make the circuit more stable on my breadboard . but because i wanted to sepperate the two circuits i needed to keep C4 as a decoupling cap/highpass then added that 100nf low pass in parallel with R4 on the bottom of the pcb .i wanted to blend from FF tone to range master tone so i changed the C2 100nf input cap to a 4.7 and use the blend pot i added to go between the FF/range master tones the R8R18/R9R19 is just a voltage divider. i think of it as a fixed volume pot. its to make the output of the fuzz match the input of the the Zen better so it doesnt go crazy and make a bunch of noise.
that big blue cap sounded so good on my Breadboard i swear LOL , when i put the fuzz into range master mode it kept a bit more low end . now it seems its way way to much low end so im going to slim that 1u down to the recommended 100nf .
C4 & R9 make a corner freq at 13Hz. If you can hear the difference between that and 1.3Hz, then your hearing is better than mine.
In that case I don't trust the Dover Drive schematic.
THAT schematic I trust.
If you are referring to the 200lbs of Gold, Its a separate Boost Circuit.
this whole time i thought it was an electra type in the front end. i almost tried to add an electra boost to the front of my Dover with a third foot switch , lol im glad i didnt do that. thats way different from what i was thinking. ill have to breadboard this to hear how it sounds in the DD. TY for the schematic , im surprised at how close the Dover drive is to the 200lbs of gold.
