Yay! Success!...sort of: Fuzz Issue

[Ag_Nathus]

Long Story (Start Here) Ok, so I have been trying to get at least one pedal up and running for a while now without success. At first, I thought the arrows on my electrolitic capacitors were pointing in the direction the current was supposed to flow, i.e. towards the positive side. Well, once I got that sorted out, I still wasn't getting anything, so after much consideration and a few etched boards aside I realised that I was looking at the mirror image of the board ( I wasn't using a printer, I was transfering with paper and pencil). So I then got that sorted out and fired her up and... nothing. Looked over my circuit and everything looked good, but no sound. (I was breadboarding this time) Finally, I tried rotating a transistor and bingo! we have fuzz! Needless to say I was thrilled to have any sound at all. Now the only problem is...

Short Story (Start Here) ... I am making a Fuzz Face using the schematic on the tonepad page and while the circuit works and it gives fuzz, the volume is quite low. Even when I have the volume and Fuzz pots all the way up, the volume is considerably less than when I switch the effect off to my clean channel. I am guessing that I need to adjust my resistor values? The battery I am using is pushing 8.99 volts. I am using the resistor values from the schematics but, of course, when I got my transistors from small bear electronics, they recommened different values, but I had already placed my order. It will be no trouble to go out and get some different values though, if this is the likely culprit!

Thanks for any help!

AG

[Solidhex]

Yo

  I'd replace the resistors with the small bear recommended values...

--Brad

[Ag_Nathus]

Thanks! We have a Fry's in town so I am going to try to swing by and pick those up!

AG