Oh... and 2n5089. Both read about 580 hfe. Mine fired up immediately when I first put it on the board, and I didn't have to modify any resistor values in order to get it to fire up, as reported previously. It's a mean machine. Loud and dirty.

Ahh, yes. The good stuff. Q1 - B: .6, C: 1.96 Q2 - B: .58, C: 5.25 Mods: I used 10uf electrolytics in place of the 2.2. I removed the 100k parallel resistor in the first diode set, as recommended. Mine is the 2-knob version. I added a switchable .1uf cap to ground on the input, which opens it up a l...

I breadboarded this and fell in love. It's the fat fuzzy characteristics of a Muff, but there is better string clarity and chords sound great on it. It also cleans up VERY well with the guitar's volume knob. I also like the very slight differences in the diode pairs' configurations, from the Muff's....

I ask, in advance, for forgiveness on the question I'm about to ask, but I feel that I'd get a more logical response here, over an emotional one, if I asked it on the DAM forums. But... why do builders continue to replicate these darlington pair fuzzes with increasingly rare germanium transistors? D...

Really interested in this pedal and what's going on under the hood. It sounds killer.

Got any more pictures than just the one?

This dude makes awesome amplifiers - that is his bread and butter, not pedals. They are affordable, p2p, hand wired monster tube amps. So cut him some slack before breaking out the torches.

From the builder of the Klipper: "It is designed to be connected directly to the amp's input, it becomes part of the preamp and not the pedalboard, like adding a distortion channel to your amp". So not a pedal, and not exactly a preamp, I'll give you that one. Basically, a device that lets...

And I question the taste of anyone who says the Klipp sounds shite. Perhaps the early Sabbath records scared you. The soundclips I've seen/heard of this thing don't sound anything like early Sabbath. The comment I was responding to was the one made specifically about the Klipp amplifier. Which is w...

This a full blown tube pre-amp, that happens to possess the ability to be used as a traditional pedal (with caveats). Use it with a power amp! If you're sticking it on the floor with the rest of your pedals - well, then you deserve any bad tone that comes bleeding from your speakers. And I question ...

Absolutely, you are right that it's plenty loud enough as is. I was just asking out of devilish need to take it over the top. The 4k7 did the trick perfectly! Thank you! It sounds very classic through my Rock Block 1 watter. And gets massively doomy through a Model T half stack - which is what I was...

Hi, new guy here. Total electronics newb. I put this on my breadboard last night, and gotta say - kudos! I'm really loving the way this sounds. Can get a very gated fuzz, or a more smooth, modern distortion. I will probably make the trim an external control, as I like being able to dial in that &quo...