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I've built rullywow Queen of Bone 2 with russian D9 diodes for a friend's birthday. I liked the way it turned out.
https://soundcloud.com/sportloto82/kot?in=sportloto82/sets/sssss

Hi guys.
Yesterday i've built Princess Rawr PCB by Rullywow, which is Catalinbread Katzenkonig thingy . And overall it sounds very good, but the hiss is kinda annoying. Transistors are 2n3904 around 360 HFE. The most hiss I get is from Gain Knob.

Here is what I tried to do:
1. Decreased R5 from 10 k to 1 k. Was kinda helpfull to decrease hiss for the input knob.
2. Omited R8 (150Ohm)


After that i've installed a 20k trimpot instead of R10, and got quite nice sounding gated effect with no hiss by cranking gain knob. But using lower gain it still goes hissing.

So, maybe someone, has built it without these noise issues?

Best Regards,
Ivan

Hello. Here you have it.
Chorus = Хорус
Vibrato = Вибрато
Rate = Частота
Depth = Глубина
Level = Уровень 

Someone send this guy a pcb and a pint of vodka.

I'm already quite drunk with my bear 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOLc3BpxspU&t=149s
Did a small Dirtbaby vid demo with two chords and looper.

Hello. Here you have it.
Chorus = Хорус
Vibrato = Вибрато
Rate = Частота
Depth = Глубина
Level = Уровень or you can call it Volume (Громкость)

Once you do that, if you still have issues, try bumping up the value of the -9V filter caps. I've had Tonebenders that oscillated with a 10uF filter cap, but once I bumped it up to 22 or 47uF it went away. Seems to be an issue that sometimes crops up when running PNP germanium transistors from a charge pump.

Thank you, Kevin. I changed the value for a 47uF and poof! the hiss is gone.

So, the frequency boost is supposed to take it from 10k (what you are hearing) to around 50k, IIRC. Are you using the SCPA version or the CPA version of the 7660? You need to use the SCPA version. If you are, then you might try a different inverter. The MAX1044 or TC1044. Just so it's more confusing the correct MAX version is the CPA and correct TC1044 version is SCPA.

Thank you, Brian. I'll start with trying tc1044 (the scpa one).

Hi. I've tried to build the Aion Solaris PCB. But, after trying the pcb the signal goes oscillating. And sound is quite noticeable about 10kHZ freq.
The IC Pump is ICL7660 with frequency boost feature, but it doesn't seem gets engaging. Tried to mess with the caps, but it doesn't get better.
Is there any way to eliminate that noise?

Wow 

Hello.
Here is my build of Brian's dirtbaby delay.
The wiring on this board is awesome, and overall sound is so spacey especially with the modulation on.
I feel kinda shy about the gut, but it sound good
[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/jouveivan/cosmic[/soundcloud]
Also this one is a runt - my fav overall gain pedal by now.
[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/jouveivan/whitesnake-jam-jouve[/soundcloud]
And this one is a silicon take on fuzz factory made by my father, for my birthday last year.
[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/jouveivan/break[/soundcloud]
[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/jouveivan/dikiy[/soundcloud]

I was fast enough to order the doggie But not a horsie one 
But instead of that ordered 2 Kingslayer pcbs 

I'm just excited about it. Recently i've built Brian's Runt - and it just sounds awesome. Seems like i'm all in for alpha dog and a horsie one 

I did a Green Bean and Rabbit Hole(Green russian BC550) combo recently in a 1590BB box. And it sounds nice.

Hello from Moscow!
Hehe. I thought it was some kind of forum engine bug. Used my TOR browser to read the forum 

A couple of months ago I put a ban on new registrations from .ru email addresses. This was due to a high amount of spam coming from .ru. Seems I accidentally banned all .ru accounts though and did not realize it. I was not trying to start a new cold war here...just a dumb mistake. I've removed all bans for now so everyone should be able to log in.

There was a period this summer where we were getting hundreds of fake registrations every day but I changed the registration criteria so hopefully there will not be any further problems.

Thank you, Brian for your awesome projects and promt international shipping.
And all of you guys for your knowledge sharing. I like reading this forum, especially build reports. That's very inspiring.