Coming from a poor man who enjoys this hobby..
I'm wanting to pick up some germanium based fuzzes, namely the tone bender mki and the hoof/reaper, however germanium transistors seem to be extremely difficult to come by, and where they are, seem extremely expensive for what they are. So the question is, is it possible to just sub out germanium transistors for silicon, and just re - bias them to account for leakage?
To my understanding, the biasing of the tone bender's transistors is set to account for the leakage, meaning that it can be re - biased for low - leakage silicon transistors with a similar hfe, right?
I'm wanting to pick up some germanium based fuzzes, namely the tone bender mki and the hoof/reaper, however germanium transistors seem to be extremely difficult to come by, and where they are, seem extremely expensive for what they are. So the question is, is it possible to just sub out germanium transistors for silicon, and just re - bias them to account for leakage?
To my understanding, the biasing of the tone bender's transistors is set to account for the leakage, meaning that it can be re - biased for low - leakage silicon transistors with a similar hfe, right?