Shin Ei with Germs

[boratto]

Please a fuzzmaniac for draw that vero!

[tjdracz]

Quickly drawn with DIYLC.
http://i62.tinypic.com/16921zr.jpg
http://i59.tinypic.com/2l8i8lx.jpg
Probs can be much smaller but C'est la vie! Now I can see I could move bunch of a stuff to the left but hey, should work

R1: 470K
R2: 1K
R3: 1K
R4: 1K5
R5: 50K
R6: 22K
C1: 10uF electro
C2: 10uF electro
C3: 10uF electro
C4: .002uF (2nF)
Transistors top to bottom: CBE

Fuzz 3 unconnected
Vol 2 to Output
Vol 1 to GND

[boratto]

Uh la la, i need to see that!
The image links seems it´s not working!

[tjdracz]

Really? Works fine here

[boratto]

nope.. i am trying a proxy browser too, and the links are broken (for me)...
is there a chance of insert the images here, if do not bother you?

[tjdracz]

Here ya go

[boratto]

c'est magnifique!
Thank you, it´s in my next building list!

[tjdracz]

You can make it a few columns smaller by moving all the stuff from column J leftwards and decreasing the gaps between components. I've just left them that big to make it clearer. Also C4 with associated cut underneath can go to the other side of Q2, obviously then you run a wire from left side of the board to the volume pot. All should save you up about three rows of space. If you're not fussed just go ahead and build it, should be a comfortable fit everywhere or wait for Miro or Mark to come with their guru layout approach to make it compact :)

[boratto]

It´s perfect, just remove 1 column for the right and it´s has enough space and fits well in a 1590B, and i think there´s enough space for a voltage inverter.

[Neil mcNasty]

I just remembered that I made a layout for this a while ago + a slightly modified version and one with a BMP tone-stack.
I have not built and verified any of them yet, but I might as well post them in case someone wants to give it a go. I will be building these soon as well...

The v.2 of the Germanium layout has some strange pot values, so I wrote down some resistors that you can add to the pot in order to get the values correct. Be aware that this also has an effect on the taper response.
Personally I will try the closest value and see If that works out instead of the odd values.

First a my compact version of the one above:


A modified version:


And the silicon version with BMP tone-stack:

[KT]

Did anyone build one of these already, which one did you prefer? One of my earlier builds was the gig modded FY-2. I want to build a FY-2 again