Maestro Super Buzz?

[zener]

Just finished building the Maestro Super Fuzz from GGG. The circuit have two type of fuzz, one from the lower half of the PCB and the other in the upper half.

Using the fuzz at the lower half of the PCB, balance at the end of the turn, sustain at the lowest,  I got nasty buzz as if there's a giant bee. There's also gating and the note doesn't die smoothly. When I play a note, the sound changes as if I made a pull-off or slide one to two fret lower. Adjusting the sustain knob to the fullest makes the giant bee disappear but replaced by a robotic sound like those you can hear from very old computer (not PC) games. There's still the gating effect and the pull-off or slide sound when playing a note.

Using the fuzz at the upper part of the PCB, balance at the end of the turn, sustain at full, the nasty buzz is still there but seems to have lost it boost (or bass) unlike the previous one. Other problems are still there.

From those problems, I can tell how great the fuzz sound only if it works fine. I used 6 2N5088, tried to replace the Q5 and Q6 with 2N3904 and nothing happened (it even become noisier).

I hope someone can shed some light to this. So far, this is my most expensive built and badly wanted to have it work.

Thanks for any help :wink:
Zener

[idlefaction]

http://www.rathergood.com/giantbee/

maybe measure the voltages on the pins of the transistors, and post them here with a link to the schem?  i'm too lazy to go look it up on ggg, so i'm sure others are the same  

(plus it's black and green draws more of my boss' attention to the fact that i'm not working than diystompboxes!) :twisted: [/url]

[zener]

http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/v2/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=93&op=page&SubMenu=

I hope JSleep can help me with it.

Still waiting for a multimeter to be brought by my dad.

[jsleep]

This is the classic Fuzz-Tone Sound, who needs germanium transistors!  I get a lot of _Satisfaction_ out of this Fuzz-tone.

I just built it a couple weeks ago.  Haven't boxed it up yet, and I had a loose wire on one of the pots.  When I fixed that, it seems to sound pretty much like the original.   The low range on the sustain causes some sputtering, and this happens on the original to some degree.  I'm still looking into that.

Here are the voltages I have:

Q1
C  4.3
B  1.3
E    .6
Q2
C   8.8
B   2.8
E   2.2
Q3
C    .9
B    .6
E    .2
Q4  
C  8.7
B    .4
E     0

Q5 & Q6 are clippers and have small voltages running.

Zener, I told you earlier that I had some gating and sputtering, once I fixed the cold solder joint it went away.  Check your voltages and look for bad solder joints, etc.

JD