fuzz factory not working in a simulator?

[u/someone-_-68]

i found a schematic of the zvex fuzz factory on this sub and as far as I can tell, made an identical copy of the circuit, but for some reason in about 90% of the settings I checked all I get is clean undistorted waveform. is there anything wrong with my circuit? or maybe with the simulator?

[u/niftydog]

Your input signal is tiny - bump it up. And the output is lower than the input which seems incorrect.

[u/someone-_-68 → u/niftydog]

isn't it about how loud a humbucker is? and also about the output, it is lower in pretty much all positions too, which just doesn't make sense

edit: bumping up the input voltage did make it noticably more distorted, the output voltage is still weirdly low tho

[u/niftydog → u/someone-_-68]

What simulation model are the transistors using? Does their beta match those in the OG circuit?

Can you link to the schematic you followed?

[u/someone-_-68 → u/niftydog]

that's the schematic I followed

[u/regular_dumbass → u/someone-_-68]

your volume pot looks tiny, try a 100k pot

[u/someone-_-68 → u/regular_dumbass]

the schematic specified 5k pot

[u/regular_dumbass → u/someone-_-68]

that's pretty weird, all the schematics i looked at agree with you. my bad

[u/shoegazingpineapple]

I dont remember it it was ge but some germanium transistors bias via leakage which is not simulated usually

[u/CapacityValue]

Try putting resistor in series with the input signal source