Who wants to debug my ridiculous mess of a pedal?

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Who wants to debug my ridiculous mess of a pedal?

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It's my first build. And because I can never just leave things simple I had to make a bunch of changes to the original circuit... :picard:

I'll ship it to you and pay for shipping back if someone will fix it.

The circuit:
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Prepare yourself for a mess of wires...
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good god sir
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Yeah... Turns on, led lights up and all that, but the signal cuts out. :cry:
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Why so many wires?
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I followed the Silver Crank circuit and then added switches for the Dark Boost and Bazz Fuss mods. The wires follow the diagrams in that Silver Crank thread.
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so no bypass guitar sound?
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When it is turned off the guitar plays through fine.

Moved image of circuit to OP.
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got a multimeter?
check your board to make everythings connected
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tuffteef wrote:got a multimeter?
check your board to make everythings connected

Don't have one.
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jfrey wrote:
tuffteef wrote:got a multimeter?
check your board to make everythings connected

Don't have one.


throw it in the river
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tuffteef wrote:
jfrey wrote:
tuffteef wrote:got a multimeter?
check your board to make everythings connected

Don't have one.


throw it in the river

:lol: :) :( :cry:
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Hahaha. Don't worry, man. Even if you never make this pedal work, you got some soldering experience. You can try again.

I can't tell where the wires go, honestly. if the sound mutes, try reversing the jacks (just switch the two cables).

try every combination with those switches, too.
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You sure you got the transistor pinout correct? On that metal can, the tab is closest to the emitter.
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culturejam wrote:You sure you got the transistor pinout correct? On that metal can, the tab is closest to the emitter.

Pretty sure. It should be closest to the-upper most prong correct?
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I'll fix it up for you. I'm guessing one or more of your mods might be messing something up; is it ok if I change it some, if that's the case?

Also, I won't steal your pedal. I'm in the good trader reference thread, if that helps. Send me a pm and I'll give you the address to send it to, and my email address and stuff.
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