Vintage Fuzz Master volume problem

[nieh]

I was advised to post this here,

I just got my VFM in the mail and I love it, but even with the volume maxed its just below unity gain. Are all VFMs like this, or is something wrong with mine?

[stanimal]

hey man,
i had this happen on a GZ once... when i was modding it i blew out one of the trannies (mpsa18 i think) and had to swap it.... you ever build a probe? not the kind you stick in your bottom.... but the kind you use to follow the circuit path and find components that are crapped....? kind of a pain but a good tool to have....

[Toonster]

hey man,
i had this happen on a GZ once... when i was modding it i blew out one of the trannies (mpsa18 i think) and had to swap it.... you ever build a probe? not the kind you stick in your bottom.... but the kind you use to follow the circuit path and find components that are crapped....? kind of a pain but a good tool to have....

I ordered a BYOC probe sometime ago, never made it, couldn't find the manual on their website anymore

[Teej212]

its just a .1uf cap connected to the tip of the jack, and the ground connected through alligator clips to the sleeve of the jack

[Gone Fission]

While keeping an input on it, try backing some stuff on, particularly gain and clipping. Don't know the pedal, but sometimes a distorting device can swamp itself to the point that it drops output. You might just be getting too much of a good thing.