Sheepy Love Bee Sting (One Control Silver Bee)

bluedmc777

bluedmc777

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Build Rating
5.00 star(s)
Been meaning to get to this one for a while and glad I did. Very Timmy-ish sounding overdrive but I’d say more transparent and not quite as “soft” as a Timmy. It sounds more like your amp to me but still has plenty of gain on tap. All controls are useful throughout their full range as well. I did use a A50 instead of B50 for the level pot. This one just may find a permanent spot on my board! Easy build and another win for Sheepy Love.

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Ok so I jumped the gun on this! I played it well over an hour while I had it on my protoboard however when I went to play it yesterday finally after boxing it up it had no output when the effect was engaged! What the hell?

I did all the testing procedures I knew to do. I’m getting 9v at the input. Continuity check out at all switch poles both when engaged and not engaged, continuity between all the buss wire to daughter board, continuity between daughter board jack in and out. I don’t know what else could’ve happened between moving it from protoboard to enclosure. This is a bummer cause I REALLY liked this Od. On top of that now I have to feel like a fraud because I posted it in the build report section. 😂😂😂 @MichaelW @szukalski any suggestions? I’m actually about to leave for vacation but this is gonna bug me the whole time. I’ll post in the troubleshooting section when I return.

Also, I changed that random stereo output jack to a Rean thinking I may have wired it wrong but no go
 
swelchy said:
Michael Wong edition done correctly... Clean and no labels !
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To be fair he has helped me tremendously since I started back building for real. Well I say for real but I’m not near as good as most of you guys. Give me an analog delay board and I’ll have populated looking neat and tidy but that bastard isn’t gonna work. I’m not quite there yet. I need to learn to troubleshoot properly.
 
bluedmc777 said:
To be fair he has helped me tremendously since I started back building for real. Well I say for real but I’m not near as good as most of you guys. Give me an analog delay board and I’ll have populated looking neat and tidy but that bastard isn’t gonna work. I’m not quite there yet. I need to learn to troubleshoot properly.
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Michael can seriously puts some builds out when he's on a roll... He's a good player too
 
No sound when engaged is likely a short somewhere. Remove power, use your multimeter/continuity checker and look for a short between ground and the signal path. Even before that, look for an obvious short, e.g. pot housing touching an I/O jack, solder bridges, unclipped component lead touching the enclosure, etc. I had a random "no sound" situation that I never proved but I'm 99.9% sure I had a component lead (or other small piece of metal) floating in the enclosure. So lightly shake it then try again, if that works, you might have a conductive "floater" causing issues. A bad switch is always a possibility, those 3PDT mechanical footswitches aren't particularly robust. Once you rule out all the "easy" or obvious problems, use an audio probe and trace through the "live" circuit to see where it stops making audible sound.
 
MattG said:
No sound when engaged is likely a short somewhere. Remove power, use your multimeter/continuity checker and look for a short between ground and the signal path. Even before that, look for an obvious short, e.g. pot housing touching an I/O jack, solder bridges, unclipped component lead touching the enclosure, etc. I had a random "no sound" situation that I never proved but I'm 99.9% sure I had a component lead (or other small piece of metal) floating in the enclosure. So lightly shake it then try again, if that works, you might have a conductive "floater" causing issues. A bad switch is always a possibility, those 3PDT mechanical footswitches aren't particularly robust. Once you rule out all the "easy" or obvious problems, use an audio probe and trace through the "live" circuit to see where it stops making audible sound.
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Thanks for the tips. I’ll look around in there when I get back and shake it up. If that doesn’t work I’ll see if it works out of the enclosure.
 
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