Noisy Cricket sounds not right

[BoostAddict]

EDIT:  I fixed this problem!  Read below for new problem.

Finished my build last night using the radioshack build layout on beavis' site.  No sound.  All joints good, everything looks fine.  This morning I build an audio probe.  I poke around and nothing gets past the input.  I probe "G" on the MPF102 and I get sound.  I probe anywhere else, nothing.  Is the MPF102 busted?  I bought them off of eBay, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120156050814 . I've already tried 3 different ones...ANY help is appreciated.  Thanks

[hobojoe]

I am definitely not an expert in debugging but I would recommend double checking the pinout on the MPF102 and make sure it matches up with the circuit.  I had a tranny with a different pinout once and I spent a couple days before I figured out what the problem was

[BoostAddict]

That's what I thought too. So I swapped them around both ways.  One way I would get no sound at input, another way I would get sound so I kept the orientation that kept the sound when it was powered on.  I just desoldered all the pots so I can look at it closely again.  Hopefully it works after checking again....

[BoostAddict]

teehee you can't help but giggle like a school girl when you're dumb like me.  The whole time I was looking at the layout, I wondered...where is everything grounded to?  I took out all the wiring looked at it again and realized I forgot to ground the input jack to the board!  I only grounded it to the LED and that's all.  What a retard I am!  Now it's just buzzing and farting.  Much easier to figure out than no sound thouhg!

[BoostAddict]

ok now, in order to get a good clean tone.  Volume has to be at max, tone fully counter clockwise and gain counter clockwise.  even then, there's still a bit of buzzing.  right now, its not in an enclosure or anthing.  it also seems to be motorboating a bit, and if i touch the pots, they go away.  if i turn the tone up even a little, it sounds like a FUZZ with no sustain.  any ideas?

[oldrocker]

Still sounds like a transistor orientation problem to me.  Try just flipping it 180 degrees.   Most times that's how mine are backwards.