Vulcan overdrive tryout

[casey73]

I've been kicking this around for a while and finally did a breadboard build of the Vulcan Overdrive in this schematic:

http://gaussmarkov.net/layouts/jvulc...an-project.pdf

It sounded way too thin, stripped of bass. I double checked everything and even changed the middle cap/resistor set up for max gain. It was also pretty noisy, but I might attribute that to being on a breadboard. It just didn't give me any pleasing tones. I've built alot of FET based overdrives and distortion circuits that have worked very well and this one just fell flat for me.

Anyone else try this one out?

[Mark Hammer]

Not intending to underestimate your chops, but is the pinout of the particular transistors you're using confirmed? Wouldn't be the first time in history that someone naively assumed a tranny would correspond to all the others with the same part number that they had used before without any problem whatsoever and drove themselves crazy until they realized these ones were different. No autobiography there whatsoever.

Any chance one of those 22uf caps is unintentionally a 2.2uf?
or that one of those .1uf (104) caps is unintentionally a .01uf (503)?