Pedal Industry Faux Pas

A buddy of mine recently had me look at one of his Lonewolf Pedals. It had an internal trimmer as master volume, but no volume control outside. I desoldered the trimpot and offboard wired a pot that I mounted on the side of the enclosure. It definitely cut volume, but not like a typical volume control. I'm guessing he didn't make it a voltage divider type setup for some reason. After seeing the pcb/wiring in there (this is supposedly a professional builder lol) I should have absolutely no doubts whatsoever marketing and selling my own circuits now.
 
I'd have to dig up the trace to say for sure, but it was something silly like capacitors from one lug to the next going around the rotary switch.... which would have worked fine, except it was a 2P6T rotary switch so two capacitors on opposite sides of the switch were in parallel at any given position...

This resulted in random values, no sequential order, and two or three positions of the exact same value.
 
Robert said:
I'd have to dig up the trace to say for sure, but it was something silly like capacitors from one lug to the next going around the rotary switch.... which would have worked fine, except it was a 2P6T rotary switch so two capacitors on opposite sides of the switch were in parallel at any given position...

This resulted in random values, no sequential order, and two or three positions of the exact same value.
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Did you even read this? How dare you!

jesuscrisp said:
After all this time, would you really waste your money ? On a brand that doesn’t care about death metal at all? Where were they the last 15 years of people asking ? If a waza hm2 comes out , it’s purely boss cashing in on what those of us offering superior options created. It’ll probably only have a little toggle and a mid knob too. Truthfully , I created the entire modded hm2 boutique market close to a decade ago now , that’s spawned an entire sea of others making them, but that’s another story to trigger all the haters for another day. I’ll personally be skipping this as I have no interest in cash grabs if they announce a waza model.
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I did notice that one of the knobs didn't seem to do anything at all. I figured it might be switching the cap in the HPF in the op amp's feedback loop, but even turning up the dirt didn't make a difference. I was like I barely know what I'm doing, but this guy really doesn't know what the hell he's doing. The pcb looked like he used generic EasyEDA footprints and didn't understand how to measure or mount anything.
 
cdwillis said:
I did notice that one of the knobs didn't seem to do anything at all. I figured it might be switching the cap in the HPF in the op amp's feedback loop, but even turning up the dirt didn't make a difference. I was like I barely know what I'm doing, but this guy really doesn't know what the hell he's doing. The pcb looked like he used generic EasyEDA footprints and didn't understand how to measure or mount anything.
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C'mon he's a lone wolf. It's right in the name. Do you even care about death metal? Are you morbid?
 
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