Hornet and Blackfire questions

[John Egerton]

Hey guys.. I have a few questions...

I own a Fuzz factory and while I absolutley love the sound of the drive pot on max.... The pedal hisses like mad when plaugged into my wireless guitar transmitter... I believe that this is becuase the pedal is designed to 'see' the guitar pickups.... Ive tried everything including using transformers to simulate the presence of a pickup in the signal chain however I've had no luck...

My only choice now is to try a different pedal...

I've been looking at the hornet and this looks quite good... Will it also perform in the same manner with my wireless transmitter? If not.... Do you believe it will sound like what I want?

I have also built a blackfire... However, although it does deliver a lot of gain I'm sorry to say that its just too noisy when not playing anything... Are there any ideas out there to quieten it up?

Thanks guys

[petemoore]

Blackfire uses HG LN transistors like MPSA18 or 2n5089, other types will tend to be noisier. IT is a Gainey circuit, and mine is not exactly low noise, not reduculous either...

[WGTP]

ON the Black Fire, you might try a .001uf or so cap from the collector to V+ in parallel wit the 10K resistor, in the first stage, maybe the second too.  That will roll off some highs, but might help.  

[aron]

I know this is not what you want to hear but for certain situations I use a noise gate.

I haven't found the Blackfire to be too noisy, but I haven't used it live much.

[brett]

Hi.  Try reducing the 10uF caps on the emitters of Q2 and Q4 to 2.2uF.  This will lower both gain and noise.  The Blackfire has so much gain you might not notice less gain, but may appreciate the lower noise levels.

Just a guess.

[petemoore]

I've tried reducing the Electrocaps Values, smaller values make the circuit less gainy, also less bassy.