Got a breadboard. Fear for spare time. Schematic included.

[Hambo]

I got a breadboard haha. how much fun?

So I started off with a silicon fuzz face with some trannies I found, and contrived to add another transistor. After much flipping around I got a massive overbloated fuzz which I tamed down a bit by adding some clipping diodes.. I think.. (I'm not sure theyre in the right place). I really dont know what I'm doing, so i drew up a schem of it to post here. I think it sounds pretty sweet if a bit noisy, anyone care to tell me theyre thoughts on this one? I mean, I suppose its fairly obvious to most people here, but what have I done? Also is the 10 UF going into the base of Q3 the right way round?

I have learned: what capacitors DO, sometimes, sort of..
                       a bit about clipping diodes, I suppose.
                       poor ac128 germaniums rigged as clipping diodes sound very quiet and poo.
                       that sometimes adding random stuff to random holes can make things sound better.. or create sparks and possibly smoke.

wooo

[Noplasticrobots]

Welcome to the world of breadboarding!

[petemoore]

  Cool.
  Looks like A FF derived circuit, just like you said.
  I'd make the 10uf a nonpolar type [which means probably smaller value uf] , or parallel two 4u7 caps to make a nonpolar ~10uf, the signal there should be swinging +/-, so a cap will see both polarties in that position, may damage polarized caps...? 

[Hambo]

Excellent, I'm going to play around with it some more but I'll have to limit myself. I spent damn near a whole day just poking things into holes er..

Also one is not enough!

So a pair of EL caps wired neg to neg or pos to pos = non polar cap right? But dont they add together when theyre in parallel not series?
that 2.2 on the right neednt be there either isnt it. I mean its essentially just going from 9v to ground. I'll ave another go sometime, but now I have something else on there!

[newbie builder]

Yup, caps add up in parallel. I'm not sure how it works with electrolytics though- i 've only done it with nonpolar ones.