Re: Germanium Transistors, Noise and Leakage

Posted by Travis on Aug 03, 2016; 9:09pm
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/Germanium-Transistors-Noise-and-Leakage-tp32320p32342.html

By the way, a couple tricks that work better than adding a cap from 9v to ground are...

Small caps between base and collector of the transistors. This rolls off high frequencies to eliminate noise. Too big of a cap and you're losing too much high end, to small and you're not cutting enough noise. Look at the DAM meathead as an example

Personally my preferred trick (for a fuzz face esque build with noise issues) is to add a cap to ground at the input, like you see in the Tone Bender MKII. I usually use 10n just like the MKII. This just dumps some noise to ground right at the front of the circuit and usually doesn't have a very noticable effect on the overall sound