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Silicon Fuzz / Gate
He eats the signal and gives back something worse.
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UNCLE WORM
DIY Preamp — Full Build Docs
Build your own uncle. Solder at your own risk.
$35.00INSTANT DOWNLOAD
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WHO IS UNCLE WORM?
UNCLE WORM is the circuit we get asked about most, so we wrote everything down instead of selling it. Starve the second stage and it sags like an old amp with a tired rectifier. The docs assume you can solder but not that you know why any of this works — we explain the why.
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WARNING LABEL
Mains-free, 9V only. If your build smokes, you installed the diode backwards.
- Difficulty
- Intermediate — 62 joints, no SMD
- Circuit
- JFET preamp + starved-voltage stage
- Enclosure
- 125B, template included
- Build time
- About 3 hours, or a whole weekend
WHAT YOU GET
- ✦Schematic + annotated layout (PDF)
- ✦Full BOM with Mouser + Tayda part numbers
- ✦Drill template, 1:1 printable
- ✦Gerber files for the PCB
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