finished a germainium fuzz

[chisa]

fuzz face circuit tweaked, pretty low gain, smooth though.

[Mike]

Very nice. It's fun this pedal lark innit? Did you get some Banzai matched Ge's or some random ones?

If you don't care about making your pedals look a bit more neat inside, just ignore the below.

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Try measuring how much you need for each wire in the case and trimming to size, it'll keep things a lot neater.

I gather you're testing these things out of the case and that's why you're ending up with loads of excess?

I use a breadboard to test my pedals. I make the board and leave all I/O, pot wires and power connections as flying leads with stripped ends. I connect these to power, a breakout box with a bypass switch and jacks for i/o and to pots via the breadboard (I have a bunch of common value pots with leads tacked to them for testing). So I can test my boards "dry" without soldering them to anything, then when you come to solder them to the case components you can do so "in situ" and get a neater result.

It certainly helps when you get onto more complex stuff

[chisa]

yeah i need to sort the wiring out but at the mo just making for fun. i got some matched ac128s from here http://markhindes.easywebstore.co.uk/
and i also picked up a mullard ecc81 for my twin.

[Gabriel]

I managed to fail at building a fuzz face 3 attempts and still the most I can get is a big buzzy noise, I'll give it another attempt at some point. I've just faced it that I should probably work out what I'm doing than just copying a diagram.

[Skip]

you seem like your lovin building those babies-- i want to- i am just so unmechanical/ elictrical inclined

[chisa]

you seem like your lovin building those babies-- i want to- i am just so unmechanical/ elictrical inclined

so am i, but i can follow a diagram. as for it not working - the first 4-5 i built were either not working or had some problem

[Gabriel]

the first 4-5 i built were either not working or had some problem

I'm nearly there then