It's a mystery...

[mmadscientist]

Hello all.  I have a cct on the breadboard that I really like.  It sounds great, and the output comes just up to the red on my preamp but doesn't clip.  The problem is that when I send audio to it from my DAW, all I get is loud static with a barely audible instrument signal.  I checked cables/routing/wires/batteries and no luck.  Used as a stompbox on the way in it works great, but when sent to I just get loud static.  I am utterly clueless.

[Johan]

what circuit is it?..probably has to do with impedances..in and out..if it is designed to go to a 1M guitar input and you send it to a 10k Line input....

johan

[mmadscientist]

It's a weird bazzfuss/ two gainstge cct.  I really just happened on some good combos while messing around.  It is basically two simple n2222a  gain stages into a modified bazzfuss.  I don't know how to post schems.... 

[mmadscientist]

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[darron]

hmm. i made a fuzz face that did that. it had two germaniums in it. i didn't bias it and made it right from the schem at tonepad.

it went good in some pickups and guitars, but on others it made a crappy loud hum (fuzz hum i guess). i found a point where the hum would just roll off completely once i turned down the gain though.

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

Might be a bias problem, the guitar pickup might be providing resistance to ground, which isn't there when you use the capacitor isolated DAW or soundcard output.

[mmadscientist]

So what should I do?

[mmadscientist]

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[darron]

So what should I do?

i dont know. im not an expert and i just followed instruction for that circuit. heaps of people here SHOULD be able to help though...