It works!!!....kind of.

[BarnabyHooge]

Yarg. I built the Rangemaster (first "working" project) and it seems to work, no hissing, change in tone when switched on, however there is no boost. The volume is actually a little more quite when engaged. Any idea what would cause this? I don't know enough about how the circuits work at this point to be able to even guess why that would be happening. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

THanks

[rockgardenlove]

The first thing to do is to flip the transistor around.  Sometimes the marker on old transistor denotes the emitter (usually) and sometimes the collector. 

[BarnabyHooge]

Ok.... So  I did that, and the volume problem is better, but the volume knob still doesn't seem to effect the sound as much as it should. I know that I have to fix the pot wiring because the volume turns the wrong way (all the way on is counter clockwise). I think I jsut need to swap the 1 and 3 "tab's" on the pot.

Also, I think I've seen two different types of pots used in various schematics. I used an audio pot, that should work, right?

I'm also getting some switch popping, but I haven't been able to add any resistors to the input/output caps yet, so hopefully that will go away. I'm guessing the resistor needs to go in between the cap and the input/output jack with the other end going to ground?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!