BSIAB II no distortion

[rosssurf]

I have read about every post reguarding this build but cannot find an aswer to my problem. I hope someone else can steer me in the right direction.

My Bsiab II is not distorting.. the volume, tone and even the gain pots seems to work . But I am not getting distortion.  I built the vero layout by Torchy. I would post a link to it but it does not seem to work.

  I have used all J201's except in Q 2 where i used a NTE 451( Mpf102 ). I tried swapping the NTE in to different sockets with out any change in sound

  My electrolytics are both in correctly, my soldering is fairly clean and I have inspected for any accidental connections with a magnifying glass.

1)  I did use a 1n4148 instead of the called for 1n914 Is this my problem?
Please help!




My reading are as follows
     Q1                                    Q2                                        Q3                                      Q4                                                   Q5
  D - 7.8v                              D - 10.5v                                 D - 6v                                   D - 10.5v                                           D - 6.5v
  S - .7v                                S - 7.8v                                   S - .7v                                  S - 6.1v                                             S - 384 mv
  G - 10 mv                            G - 5.0v                                   G - .5mv                               G- 5.0v                                              G -  0 

[KerryF]

Arent 1N4148s the same as 1N914s?

[burnt fingers]

q2 and q4 look funky.  I'd double check all the connections there.

Scott

[rosssurf]

 ..Uh ..ok!,...Uhm , like 390R does not mean 390K....Big difference..problem fixed. Thanks to those who replied.