Re: Germanium Transistors, Noise and Leakage

Posted by squirrels on Aug 03, 2016; 9:47pm
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/Germanium-Transistors-Noise-and-Leakage-tp32320p32344.html

I didn't mean switching the caps and connections for noise reasons, I meant as opposed to using an inverter or a battery, like the Oracle and Silicon Fuzz Master. The transistors are random, which is why I wanted to know about testing and all. I just read that reversing the connections could make it noisy. I'll try adding caps to my Oracle and Sunface. Thanks for the tip.

Unless I'm still wrong (which I could easily be) the transistor gain can cause noise, not leakage. So lower gain, lower noise. It's no different than a silicon circuit. I'm going to read up on what RG says about it.