eatyourguitar wrote:if I knew you were doing this to a positive ground pedal in the first place, I would have told you to keep the battery. since you already came this far, you just have to find the source of the problem and I will help you fix it. note that there is probably nothing wrong with the pedal but it is interacting with other gear in ways that are sometimes mysterious and hard to explain. I would start with an electrolytic cap about 100uf on the black and red wires with the neg stripe on the cap going to the black wire. if you have access to a battery powered practice amp, the results would give us usefull information. also, is there a battery in your guitar? if so, can you use a guitar with passive pickups instead?
My bass does have a battery. It can switch from a passive to active mode. Just to test it, I switch from one to the other. When in passive mode, it almost makes no sound at all. When I put it in active, the fuzz functions but not like it should. When I tweak the eq on my bass and turn everything up, it works fine....very odd. I checked and I think I may have nicked one of the wires with the soldering iron. Being new to soldering, I can see how I would have done this very easily as I have really no idea what I'm doing.
So there is a little spot on the black wire that looks like I hit it. I covered that with electrical tape and still the same issue. Should I get a new wire? Also can you explain what I'm doing with the electrical caps? I'm not sure I understand.
