BYOC confidence boost and ESV fuzz

[arotothen]

I put both of these projects together last night after work, and now I'm sitting here on my day off wishing I had a project to work on.

I know that the BYOC kits aren't really DIY, but I learned how to read the resister values and put them in place without using the cheat in the parts list. I had also never wired up a 3PDT switch and power supply, so I learned alot.

The germanium transistors sound great, but I wish I had a good pair of PNP silicon to experiment with... any suggestions?

Can't take any pics to show off until my replacement batteries come in fro my camera. My Casio uses a lithium ion battery and mine is dead.

[arotothen]

Uh, so this is embarrassing. I thought that because the power supply to the BYOC fuzz face is negative ground that the transistors were PNP, but they aren't. So now I have two sets of PNP germaniums that I'll have to come up with a use for.

[Pirate]

How are the BYOC kits compared to the GGG kits?

[arotothen]

I'm not sure, but I'm thinking about getting the GGG big muff kit, as it comes with all the components to voice it in like 4 or 5 dif ways. GGG is alot cheaper, to be sure, so I am really considering trying it out soon-ish.

My experience with BYOC was great BTW, but price is def a factor. I wouldn't have even ordered the ESV had it not been for the 33% off promotion they ran in Aug and the Confidence Boost for 1st time customers.

Aaron

oh I just salvaged a 2N2102 from an old sound card and put it in Q2, giving the pedal a bit raspier voicing, much more to my liking!!

[metalmariachi]

Very cool.

also check the Tone Machine kit.
Super cool fuzz with an octave up switch.

What are the 2 PNP ge transistors you have?

careful you'll become addicted to building things.


MM

[arotothen]

AC128 and 2N1309

The kit came with a set of AC127 with the box-y radiator, and I thought that the AC128 were the same but newer with the tophat.

I got them from Jack Orman's website.

[Pirate]

[quote="arotothen"]I'm not sure, but I'm thinking about getting the GGG big muff kit, as it comes with all the components to voice it in like 4 or 5 dif ways. GGG is alot cheaper, to be sure, so I am really considering trying it out soon-ish./quote]

Yeah thats exactly why I was looking at it too

[arotothen]

Yeah, and they have the BMP kit at 10% off this month, which should eat up about the price of shipping. ;D