To you it probably looks like a piece of crap on a breadboard...

[Hides-His-Eyes]

...The sort of thing you guys could knock out on a piece of perf and have housed in a 1590A before I even got this working...





...But to me it's MY piece of crap on a breadboard and it's the first circuit i've built completely from scratch, debugged and had working into my amp



Bazz Fuss with a single resistor exactly what it says on the schem, everything else just stuff i had around I have to say next time I'm making a circuit and I see "**** transistor" or "**** signal diode" I'm just going to stick in a BC108 and a 1N4148 and roll with it.

[robertreynisson]

sounds like someone got hooked! Nice! Congratulations

[Talon5051]

it's the first circuit i've built completely from scratch, debugged and had working into my amp

It is a great feeling isn't it?

[Boogdish]

Given the title, I was expecting this to be about people's pets getting onto their workbenches and leaving surprises for them.  This is much better.  Congrats on completing your circuit.

[rousejeremy]

Congrats. It's a great feeling isn't it?

[glops]

Congrats on getting it to work!  When I first tried a circuit on a bread board it was nerve racking and when it didn't make a sound I felt like a dummy.  Very frustrating.  How could it be so hard?!  What really helped me was the tutorial on the Beavis audio site.  Since then I build everything on a b board first and experiment with values till I am satisfied or sick with fiddling with it.  

Now that you are done with the B Fuss, the sky is the limit.  I built a prototyping board shown below.  The circuit is the Ampeg Scrambler, I breaded this one 5 or 6 times before getting it to work at all!  As of yesterday, it fires up!  

And here's a Shin-Ei Companion Fuzz with the Mid Scoop mod and a booster...

[Hides-His-Eyes]

Last night i got a fuzz face working nice

The great thing about breadboard is you can build a circuit you wouldn't necessarily want to use an enclosure on, feel good about making it work, and then move on

[AudioMime]

Am i smelling a breadboard thread?

[humptydumpty]

youd only smell it if it was wrong

[Al Heeley]

youd only smell it if it was wrong

don't you mean Gone Bad?

[mikemaddux]

Rock it brotha!!

Keep on building! 

Its a great hobby