Sweet, I'll declare it finished then ;-)
I think the pre-gain pot is messing with the bias. I think I measured the voltage on the transistors but I might be confusing that with another build.
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BoatRich wrote:jwar wrote:For reference here's my Bit. I had trouble with the LED. OMG. I always wire LED's wrong. I could wire 50 in a row and still do it wrong. They are my nemesis. Haha. Got it working. It was a cold solder joint because my iron tip is fucked because I fucked it with overheating it. LOL
broken toothpick not part of the build.
Got a tiny bit sloppy with the LED connection there, but it's fine. I ran out of the right size heat shrink. Sigh
Aen and Louise will this be it for the kits? I had a blast doing these! I'd love a 4 knobber of anything if you're willing to do those. If not, totally cool.
They should all look like this.... I'd love a gold one with an ocarina on it though. To match the N64 Masters Edition copy
moid wrote:Thanks to KaosCill8r and aens_wife for their suggestions. I resoldered the dodgy connections, trimmed the random bits of wire and also noticed that I had not connected the Chaos switch up correctly (although it did seem to behave chaotically, so who knows?). The end result is that the bleeps have now gone... to be replaced with odd clicking noises if I just run the guitar straight into the pedal and then to the amp. Adjusting the knobs occasionally brings in bits of guitar as it did before. If I put a booster between the guitar and the noise floor and crank it to the maximum the pedal is suddenly awesome across the entire sweep of the knobs and the clicks (mostly) go away (they re-appear if the Pre Gain is set low sometimes)... I can now dial in random splattery fuzz and near oscillation feedback with the EQ on the booster set correctly. So I guess the pedal works, but only if the signal going into it is 26dB louder than normal. Jwar have you tried putting a booster inbetween the guitar and noise floor and see if that works?
I'm very new to pedal building so I did some looking for other ideas and one suggestion I read elsewhere was that the transistors might be the wrong way around (mine follow the diagram on the circuit board) and that would cause the pedal to do very little until volume had reached a certain threshhold. I read somewhere that the transistor types look very similar but the order that their legs are connected in can be different and I wonder if this is the issue? Pure guesswork here; I know zilch about electronics so feel free to correct me.
I really am very glad of the quick responses, thanks very much - I was wondering whether a noob on the forum would be ignored but you've made my day
@aens_wife - I will find the contact details and email you about the pots, thanks for suggesting that, I just didn't want you guys to pay for shipping that lot to the UK (and I was desperately keen to make the pedal - we had a bank holiday weekend in the UK and I finally had some time off work). Hmmm mind you maybe I could build something else with the extra pots?
Sorry one more question for aens_wife - is there any chance there would ever be a Destructo Noctavia kit? I'd love to build one of those and compare it to the Noise Floor.
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