I just finished a Geranium Boost kit. Works great, except it has an excessive amount of hiss/white noise. I have added a link to a sample of the noise with the gain knob set at about 11. Is this a bad transistor or just the nature of the beast? It is definitely not subtle, certainly too much noise for recording. I have attached some photos of the build, its running on a battery, I tinned the leads of the transistor to get a better connection in the socket, to no avail. Adjusting the bias doesn't make any difference either, unless I turn the pot completely counter clockwise, in which case the pedal goes completely quiet, signal and all. This was all done at about 70º.
Here is a link to a sample of the noise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqASPbe9 ... load_owner