Fuzz Factory pot orientation

[stoopkid]

I just put together my own Fuzz Factory on a breadboard and I'm getting ready to attempt to squeeze it into this aluminum case I got that may be too small. But before I get started I wanted to make sure all the potentiometers are orientated properly so that the settings you find online match mine. The problem is that if I just try to test it and it doesn't sound right, how will I know which pot is backwards? Is there somewhere that describes precisely what each knob does and sounds like and what constitutes as high/low so that I can try to figure it out pot by pot?

Thanks

[taang]

vol will sound louder all the way up (duh)
gate will kill noise
comp with make the sound very splatty (and also kill lots of noise)
drive will increase intensity of the fuzz
stab will sound tighter dimed, and may oscillated as it's turned back, depending on other knob settings

there are schematics made with eagle that have an arrow indicating the clockwise direction of pots

[stoopkid]

would you by any chance be able to point me toward that schematic, I cant seem to find it on here or google.... And I'm pretty much a noob so I dont want to do it by ear and mess it up : /

Or by any chance does anyone have a fuzz factory who can do a quick demo for me? Thats asking a lot though, i know....

[LucifersTrip]

would you by any chance be able to point me toward that schematic, I cant seem to find it on here or google.... And I'm pretty much a noob so I dont want to do it by ear and mess it up : /

you can usually figure it out pretty easily by the schematic (if it is consistent), just by looking at the volume pot. If you look at a volume pot from the top, the far right lug will be ground...so you can figure out the other ones from that.  For instance, the right lug of gate goes to ground and the right lug of stab goes to the 10K, etc...

Or by any chance does anyone have a fuzz factory who can do a quick demo for me? Thats asking a lot though, i know....

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=Search&resnum=0&oi=spell&search_query=fuzz+factory+demo&spell=1&suggested_categories=10&sa=X

[stoopkid]

Actually thats the exact schematic I am using and I made sure they all matched so that if one was backwards they all would have been. I suspected the Drive and Stab were opposite of the others though so I reversed them, then I used this video and found that it was perfect. So the Drive and Stab on that schematic are backwards...

[taang]

it really shouldn't matter too much as the pot orientation isn't essential to the sound. the mysterious ZVEX609 transistors, on the other hand...

[stoopkid]

I know but i figure its worth the trouble to have all those settings lists work for me

[EATyourGuitar]

The badbean schematic has all the lugs numbered.

[taang]

I know but i figure its worth the trouble to have all those settings lists work for me

again, if you want the setting lists to work for you, you should really be worrying about the transistors

[EATyourGuitar]

I was just playing with my 7 knob fuzz factory today after I fixed it. some of the settings are just so hard to find. it will be different for each build. even on the real zvex units.