u/vigilant3777

This is part of the schematic from pedalpcb's pacifier (dod punkifier) circuit.

I feel like r4 and r9 being 22M means they essentially do nothing in this circuit and could be omitted entirely and you'd never know.

R4 is connected to 4.5 volts.

Wouldn't the collector/collector to base resistor always be providing more current than those enormous resistors?

I am trying to understand what they are doing and it just seems like nothing no matter how i look at it.

Updated in the comments

Looking at my animal boxer briefs (i posted them a little while back) and noticed this warning. What are you all doing that this even has to be said?

I rough sorted a large lot of mostly pnp germanium last night and found these beauties in the mix.

I have two 2N2918's. These are two matched silicon npn transistors in one can.

I measured both sides of one and they were indeed matched and around 450ish hfe.

What would you build with them?

** Edit ** The second transistor's hfe is 650.