Cannibalized Germanium Transistor Fuzz/Dist. Circuit Ideas ?

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Hey guys,  I recently cannibalized a slew of parts from an ancient sony Reel-to-reel. I ended up with a lot of old transistors as well,  but one in particular caught my eye, its a Germanium PNP in a CAN package. I wanted to know if someone could recommend a simple fuzz/overdrive/distortion type circuit that I could test this thing out in. I also got some silicon NPN's and old germanium diodes (voltage drop was around 412 for the diodes)

thanks for your time
-Rec

[zachomega]

What model transistor?  Did you measure the leakage and gain? 

-Zach Omega

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no measurements on the transistor yet,  I can't seem to find a datasheet on it. its a Sony B383.. actually, Ill just test it right now.. I don't know the pinout,  so I just randomly oriented it in the multimeter until I got a number that looked 'right'...  118  hFE

[zachomega]

If the leakage is low, that might make for a cool treble booster.  I just built one last night and love it.

-Zach Omega

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I'm just assuming the best thing to do with this, is to use it in some kind of  fuzz/distortion circuit.  This is because the only time I read about germanium transistors/diodes anymore, is in fuzz-type circuits. perhaps these germ. transistors have a better application ? or maybe its completely generic and useless... I've no idea

[zachomega]

Most fuzz units require multiple transistors.  Treble boosters or clean boosts or whatever use 1 transistor a lot.

-Zach Omega

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yeah, you're right... I was eyeing a PNP fuzzface, but I'd require another one of these. can you recommend a PNP booster ?

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The creampie looks like a simple build, is there a PNP version perhaps ? I searched, but only came up with a PNP (as in Press-n-Peel), so wrong acronym