a Q on TB...

[rx5]

Just a quick question:

can a Ge Tone Bender be sub'd with silicon transistors for q1,q2, & q3?? without any change in circuits??

thanks....


-RAlph

[petemoore]

If you did let me know what you think...
 If nott...you're almost certain to have some biasing issues...I didit once [read review] and got one nasty Fuzz out of it though...Fierce, rough and Gatey!!!

[RDV]

Just a quick question:

can a Ge Tone Bender be sub'd with silicon transistors for q1,q2, & q3?? without any change in circuits??

thanks....


-RAlph

The problem is the first transistor will not be biased correctly and most likely you will get no sound. In Schematics 2 there is a NPN Si Tonebender Mk. II by me that uses a trick from Runoff Groove to correctly bias the 1st transistor. I'll also include a link to the Runoff Groove article.

Regards

RDV

http://www.runoffgroove.com/tbmk2.html
http://www.diystompboxes.com/pedals/schems/NPN_Si_TB_Mk.%20II.pdf
And Mods
http://www.diystompboxes.com/cgi-bin/webbbs_scripts/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=395
http://www.diystompboxes.com/cgi-bin/webbbs_scripts/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=425[/url]

[rx5]

thanks for the reply..

maybe usng ge for Q1 would solve the problem? and Q2,3 as silicons....


-Ralph

[RDV]

thanks for the reply..

maybe usng ge for Q1 would solve the problem? and Q2,3 as silicons....


-Ralph

Or this



Regards

RDV