I've been playing around with making the Broadcast simpler and hopefully keeping the same character as the original but with only cheap and common parts. In the end it's not far from the usual bjt overdrive/fuzz circuit already. I don't like the original that much, I don't even care about making this a complete build for now. You could say I'm doing this in pure uncalled for spite
and fun.
I have tried to remove the transformer, to replace the germanium with a silicon NPN, no charge pump, and I've removed some unnecessary components from a schematic I found online. This is obviously still a work in progress because I'd like some feedback on what I've done, and because while I have boxed many many pedals, modded amps, drawn schematics and layouts, most of my breadboarding attempts end up in failure
this one sounded pretty good while it worked though.
My guess for the transformer role is to maybe introduce some filtering, but even though i don't trust the datasheet completely because it doesn't state driving impedance, it says it's pretty much flat across the audio range, and it's not like i can't do some filtering in another way if i need to.
Plans for the future: removing the gain switch and keeping only one position. Some online schems use an on off on switch there, I guess to have a free third gain position, but I'm pretty sure the original has only two.
I hope this is the right section to post into: I was torn between this and stompbox building, but this one isn't ready to build at all sooo
