Questions (mostly) about wiring pots - First build

[Venusblue]

Alright, i'm now trying my first build. I've spent the last few days looking through schematics, reading books on electronics, browing mouser and rummaging through every radioshack drawer possible. I think I might be ready for actually trying a build now, I'm just having a few problems.

this is what my first build will be. I kinda spliced a circuit in half and put another one in there. It's going to be a mixture of a fuzz and a mid booster. The fuzz is the two parts on the outside, the mid-booster being the one on the inside. I have a few questions though...

1. This might be kind of a vague question but, Will this... Work? Is there anything noticeably wrong with it?

2. I would like to wire in a "tone pot" to control my mids, All the way back would be thin, scooped mids, and all the way forward would be mid-heavy awesomeness. How would I go about doing this? I have no idea where to even start on that.

3. I would like to do the same thing for a fuzz control knob. This fuzz was originally designed to not have any form of pots on it and be kinda like running two fuzzfaces at the same time. Where would I put the pot? What kind? How?

4. I'd also like a "volume' pot. I'm assuming I could just go ahead and wire it after the switch but before the rest of the circuit, letting it pass through and bleeding off the signal into the ground as I roll it back. Would this work? Would this give off a bad tone when not 100% open?

5. Wtf is a 500p and 15n capacitor? I've never heard of those in my life. Is R3 actually a tone pot on the mid boost also? I can't tell if that's just something on the line or if that was supposed to be a pot.

Sorry for all the questions, and I hope to become a regular on this site after I get some more building experience. I feel like my entire life is the pursuit of tone, and this will be a large step for me.

[rosssurf]

500p, or 500pf is 500 picofarads. often labeled 501  1000 pico's is 1n or 1 nanofarad or .001uf, So a 15n cap is 15 nanofarads, or 15000 pico farads or .015 uf.

Often these are labeled as 153  this means 15 wth 3  0's behind it or 15,000pf/

For example if you had a cap that was labeled 154 it would mean 15 with 4 0's behind it or 150,000pf, or 150n, or .15uf.

A cap marked 473 would be 47,000pf's, or 47n, or .047


It took me a while to get this as well try this link it should help. Good Luck.
http://www.diystompboxes.com/pedals/capvalues.html

[Venusblue]

500p, or 500pf is 500 picofarads. often labeled 501  1000 pico's is 1n or 1 nanofarad or .001uf, So a 15n cap is 15 nanofarads, or 15000 pico farads or .015 uf.

Often these are labeled as 153  this means 15 wth 3  0's behind it or 15,000pf/

Oooh thank you, That threw me through a loop. I guess I should have payed more attention years ago in Chemistry when they explained this stuff, lol. Thank you very much