weirdness with GE transistor matching

[unidive]

this is odd.. 69 clone

get some smallbear trannies, gains of 110 and 145, put them in, weak and farty fuzz (110 in q1) no matter how I set the bias pot, or how cold the room is

replace Q2 with a junk transistor with a gain of 60 TOPS... and all of a sudden I have massive fuzz

[sean k]

You are taking into consideration the leakage?

[unidive]

smallbear takes leakage into account when he labels the gain

I'm just assuming my mystery tranny has the gain I need by virtue of it working - but the datasheet also tells me that they tend to max out at 60

[yeeshkul]

post voltages, bias pot in 69 is just an input attenuation of the signal if i am not mistaken, nothing to do with bias.

[unidive]

oh, my "bias" is not the input bias, it's the collector of q2 bias

q2 is at 5 volt, q1 is volt or less at the collector