Re: Great Jumpin Germaniums! (Ge Diode and Transistor Reviews & Discussion)

Posted by Beaker on Sep 12, 2014; 10:33am
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/Great-Jumpin-Germaniums-Ge-Diode-and-Transistor-Reviews-Discussion-tp13256p13269.html

Nice work Zach!

I'm with Vince on this as some of these Russian germanium components don't seem to obey the rules. Some transistors work superbly, with a HFE reading that is 80% less than the gain of some layouts suggested silicon transistor . For example I'm getting consistently good results subbing MP38's with a gain of around 60, for 2N3904's with a gain of over 300.
MP20's work great in Fuzzfaces too.

So sod what it says on the layout- try it and see if it works.