Bones need sawing...

[jessenator]

Which one end up your favourite out of curiosity?

Probably HAIRY or CRUNCH CITY PART II --- you can use any low-gain NPN in Q6, the A5T ones are unobtanium, but there might be some MPS6512s around. PM me if you want a set. Maybe I can send them in a flat mailer on the cheap 

Sorry to have taken over your build report... Here's my drawing:

[benh]

Which one end up your favourite out of curiosity?

Probably HAIRY or CRUNCH CITY PART II --- you can use any low-gain NPN in Q6, the A5T ones are unobtanium, but there might be some MPS6512s around. PM me if you want a set. Maybe I can send them in a flat mailer on the cheap 

Sorry to have taken over your build report...

Nothing to be sorry about, those discussions are great !

Today I finally brought my build to my son. Tele in, joyo 5F1 clone out. It sounds awesome:-)

While I am allowed to fiddle and make another different one, I am forbidden to touch that one further :-) My Q6 measures around 190 with my GM328 (the other ones are closer to 120). Still far from a 2N5088 :-)

I'll see what I can find around here before I bother you with shipping to Australia :-)

Also for the Ge diodes, I used some black band allegedly -1N34A (from stompboxparts iirc) with a Vf around 0.3V. I'll play around with other options on the ProtoBoard for build #2, I have some D9E's that have been great with Misfit around 0.35 and allegedly-1N34A around 0.4V. They seem to all have a bit of reverse current so maybe legit Ge....


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[jessenator]

I really like the D9E and D9D in this one. I also tried silicon here but it was really harsh, but breadboard it; you might like it    Here are a few other NPNs that have that are pretty low, <100 hFE mostly. I measured these with a T7 component measurement tool:

part num	type	min	max
MPS3394	NPN	60	90
MPS4274	NPN	70	90
MPS5131	NPN	20	100
MPS6512	NPN	30	90

Swap in "2N" for "MPS" and they may show up that way, too.

[jessenator]

Another thought was you might try piggybacking two NPNs to get a lower value. It'll make an already thick circuit a bit thicker, but worth trying.

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