Jawari

[newperson]

Hi,

I have read lots of old posts talking about this pedal.  I put one together and it sounds like a weak distoration.  The volume is fine but it does not sound like the sound samples.  I was wondering if the diodes could be in the circuit wrong.  Or would it not produce any sound if they were backwards.  I see that everyone says that it is just how you play it.  Bridge pickup, single coil pickup, etc. 

Do the diodes go: black striped side to the ground and the unstriped side to the hot square pad?  I used the GGG layout.

Thanks,
Paul.

[junkyjunky]

the two geranium diodes with striped edge face to the right towards the .1uf cap and the 1n4148 silicon diode striped edge would face to the left. that's going by the general guitar gadgets layout on pcb.

[Mark Hammer]

The Jawari IS fussy about what you feed it, in terms of level, pickup type, tone, etc.  But when it works, it works really well.  You may need to play with the preamp stage before the transformer to get it to work flawlessly in your situation.

Tim Escobedo's gift is that he comes up with circuits that do really interesting and clever things with very few parts.  The down-side is that they can sometimes need some post-hoc tailoring to suit different sorts of guitars or contexts.  The Jawari is one of those things that really deserves to have an upgraded "always-works-for-anything" input stage.