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finished a germainium fuzz
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 10:56 am
by chisa
fuzz face circuit tweaked, pretty low gain, smooth though.
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:32 am
by 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
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:45 am
by 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.
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 3:50 pm
by 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.
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 5:34 pm
by Skip
you seem like your lovin building those babies-- i want to- i am just so unmechanical/ elictrical inclined
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 6:04 pm
by chisa
Skip wrote: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
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 4:42 pm
by Gabriel
chisa wrote: the first 4-5 i built were either not working or had some problem
I'm nearly there then
