Re: Good OD for when you don't have your amp avalible?
The very first fuzz i built i built on vero, but i didn't understand how very layouts were drawn really, so i built the entire layout backwards, inside out really, all of the components and trace cuts in mirror image.
Amazingly, even built so wrong that pedal worked. It didn't sound like it was supposed to, but it worked. I still have it somewhere. (incidentally, this is the pedal that is why/how i know that sometimes, some fuzzes will work (a little anyhow!) no matter how the transistors are oriented.
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For me, the only option was to rebuild the entire board on a new piece of vero. You are lucky that all you needed to do was turn the trannies around.
And, now you know that the little tabby thing sticking out of the transistor shows which pin is the emitter.
(Some transistors, like some germanium ones, especially, don't have tabs, but rather have little red dots that indicate the same thing: the emitter. Knowing this makes some tracing and troubleshooting much much easier. For instance, that is the first thing i saw, was that the tab was not visible, so it must have been on the far side of the transistor, which would have made the bottom-most pins on the trannies the emitters, and because it looked like they were going straight to the bias resistors, they were probably in the wrong way, as the emitters should generally go towards ground, or gain controls or whatever, not the bias resistors/voltage supply. In a a typical fuzz setup anyhow.)
