I have a boutique 69 fuzz face I built.. and bypass works, and when I switch to effect mode, it sounds clean, like I'm playing through bypass. I can slightly manipulate the signal (mostly volume) using the pots, but something is obviously wrong.
Where there is supposed to be a 10k trim pot, I just put a 5k resistor. Would that explain it? Would being able to adjust that trim pot make that big of a difference in the tone?
I'm using germanium trannies from small bear with transistor sockets.. Should I try getting rid of the sockets? Audio probe doesn't help because I don't have any signal loss.
Good to see you back, deep blue...
Check all of your connections all over the place. That sounds like a problem...
And yeah, you do want a trimpot in there, if you don't have a trimpot lyting around , just use a norrmal pot, although I can't see that as the source of your problem.
-Colin
My connections? Alright, I'll give my wiring another looksee. I used sort of crummy wire, which might be a problem.
Thanks for the welcome, by the way. I was getting sick of all these random pedal parts all over the place, so I finally went out and got myself another soldering iron so I can dig back into this jazz. :)
Did you look at the transistor pin's voltage readings?
Does it do the same thing withought battery conneccted?
I would, but I don't have access to a multimeter of any sort.
I'm using a DC jack instead of a battery... And, actually, at the moment, I can't get it to work at all. I'm sure it's just shorting in various places - I've got it half out of box, half in, so it's sort of a mess. In any case, I'm gonna go ahead and rewire a bunch of it.