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Hey Team, so I finally have the parts to finish my Harbinger Two board I got a while ago except the NSL-32's. They aren't overly common to come by in New Zealand and anywhere that does do them have minimum spends or huge shipping costs.

Is there anything else I can use/make ( even temporary ) to get the unit up and working until I can find some. I've heard you can use an LED + LDR in a pinch but no idea where to start with that.

Cheers

Hi Guys,

Hoping someone might be able to help me. I have finally got round to building the Germocide fuzz, the Dragonfly pedal that you can use up some old low HFE germaniums. Now I have got it going, but I can't seem to get q4/q5 to -4.5v if it set the trim pot to all the way clockwise it gets -2.7v max. Is there a resistor I can change to give me more adjustment? Also the Gain pot seems to be acting funny, at 0 there is nothing, at 12 o'clock there is fuzz and at full there is nothing.

Any advice would be awesome, the thread over at tagboard is mostly dead. Schems attached.

Cheers

Hey team,

Just wondering if anyone has any cool ideas that I could use any of this silly amount of NOS vintage caps for?

Old wah's? amps? (I have used the mustards in Marshall clones in the past )

Photo attached. Cheers

Hey guys,

Just got my past / present project blog up and going finally and would be cool to see what you guys think.

http://www.bassybeats.co.nz/

I have a few more things to put up, namely the resource section and a few more older projects.

Cheers
Jimmy

So I am trying to decide on some bulk JFET purchases and am after some alternatives. 2N5457, J201 and PN4393's seem to be hard to come by genuine ones. Looking at building some of the 'Amps in a box' style pedals (soldano SLO/Dr Boogie/Laney Superlead) from Tagboard effects.

So does anyone have useable equivalent's (i've heard J112, J111's etc) or a reasonably priced source that can send to New Zealand?

I don't mind eBay if its confirmed to be not fakes like Tayda etc.

Cheers

Hey guys, just after some clarification on something. I am looking at doing a Beavis Audio Fuzz Lab style project and liked his idea of having transistors on 'flying leads' on a DPDT toggle switch to switch between Ge/Si or two different types of Ge's.

Now I have a crap ton of Ge stuff from ordering parts for builds for friends and was trying to figure out a way to use a 3 Pole 4 Position Rotary switch to swap between four transistor options. Any idea if this will work and how to wire up a 3P4P switch like this from tayda?

http://www.taydaelectronics.com/electromechanical/switches-key-pad/rotary-switch/rotary-switch-3-pole-4-position-alpha-sr2612f.html

Trying to figure out what the Vibe is that Luis Maldonado uses on the Remachined cover of Maybe im a Leo. It sounds great.

Screen shot doesn't show much from 'the making of' youtube clip.

So just finished my Weener Wah board and used the Dunlop inductor from another wah and a Dunlop HotPotz II 500K (already had it).

It has True Bypass and the pedal passes signal but when you engage the foot pedal it only volumes swells. I realised from another post that the dunlop inductor needed some trickery to get the rights pins lined up. But it didn't change anything.

Have I wired the Hotpotz wrong or is the inductor knackered..? Any quick voltages or places to check..?

Was wondering if anyone would have suggestions of what to put inside a fuzz build to make it play nice with other pedals. Ive used an lpb-1 either side off my Ge fuzzes before and it helped. But would a buffer be better.

Was thinking of making it true bypass switchable.


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Does anyone has the zip file for the old mangler pcb..? I was wanting to run off a couple of PCBs. Can't be bother making up vero's.

The link http://www.madbeanpedals.com/projects/Mangler/docs/Mangler.zip doesn't work anymore.

Does anyone know if there is a good pack of vector elements to use in layout diagrams..? It looks MB use something like illustrator to draw up the layouts. Possibly schematic elements too.

Wouldnt believe what i just wired up (for a mate) and worked first go. Electric ukulele with rail humbuckers, push/pull pickup selector, built in phase 45 and built in fuzz factory.

So I have a crap ton of PNP (and NPN) Russian germaniums. And trying to find a good base pcb where i can put trim pots all over it and swap out and try out all these transistors. Attempting to breadboard one out but don't know which is best.

thoughts?

So my harbinger is working but has insane treble. Could I have a component wrong? wheres the best place to start / which one is it likely to be..?

Is it possible to remove the fuzz section from an Octavia pedal? I have a 3 knob tycobrahe (however it is spelt) clone and want to remove the fuzz part.

Is it do-able?