If all you've done is put silicon transistors in place of the original germanium ones, then it'll show you up for the ignorant buffoon you are!pedalguru wrote:And please enlighten us mictester: How well does the original MKII tonebender circuit work if you simply replace the germanium transistors with silicon transistors?
There is no mojo whatsoever in the values of the resistors in the Tonebender circuits. It's trivially easy to calculate sets of values that will work well (unless you're a "pedalguru").
The only marginally intelligent thing about the "design" is the use of the CA3046, because it has fairly low gain transistors (by modern standards), and the Tonebender usually works best with lower hfe devices.
The really clever part was duping Little lance into believeing that you were selling him the rights to use a "unique fuzz chip". His whole advertising campaign was based around that lie!
PCBs coming up shortly for a properly designed, electronically switched, high quality, cheap-to-build silicon Tonebender with a couple of extra features, using a transistor array! I can't wait for Little Lance to try to sue me under the DMCA!!!