EPISODE 11: Building an Electra with Germanium Transistors

e [Music] he [Applause] oh hello everyone I'm showing some audio I'm always going to wait at this point I've had a couple hiccups on the series let me know you can hear me before I get really going but I'm pumped I did the math not really I like I did glancing math we are at 10 plus hours on an Electra circuit this is hilarious 10 plus hours looking at this circuit I love this I'm such a nerd I got the clear on the audio um I'm going to be able to commit at least an hour and a half that puts me at 5:30 Central Standard for a pretty hard out family time I have a dinner planned but I'm here with you for an hour and a half and we are going to open up a fresh copper sound petals breadboard and I'm going to start from scratch on the basic circuit um because you've been seeing me the last few times use this like horribly ridiculous like just messy breadboard so uh if you're not aware I don't not plug I don't have any sort of affiliation with any kind of any kind of monetary Advantage here they're not paying me is what I'm saying I love this stuff copper sound peds.com check it out um this this is the what size is this one this is the small so they have all these different sizes I'm going to do a small today and the idea is basically I'm going to I'm going to roll with this standard schematic and we're going to walk back through in a lot of ways this is a refresher and I want to I want to make some statements yes this is all about making a a Electra a germanium transistor device right a circuit using germanium and that's cool germanium is old it's finicky we love the word germanium it's in all the old fuzz faces all the old tone Benders it's exciting right it's finicky it's complicated it's kind of like Protools or some other software that hates you when you go to use it that's how germanium is um any Adobe people out there you know there's always the update it doesn't work and you're like my God I just need to edit that's what germanium is like but when it works It's So Glorious ...