swelchy

Oh yeah, tons of respect for the folks drilling rows of holes and fileing them into slots by hand, but I’m doing it the easy(ish) way...

This is a top 5 overdrive IMO and that is why I have built different versions of this pedal - but this is my favorite. I wanted to use...

Confirmed…. I cleaned up the other pedal that I couldn’t get working and desoldered the diode… The pads were in fact compromised by me…...

that was it dude!!!!! thanks so much! OK so from now on Im socketing all my ICs and tranistors. And yes I definitely need more...

The solved threads are usually the easiest.

I got it working Coda.... I likely damaged the pad from VCC to the zener.. Ran a short lead from a resistor to the diode and all is well..

I'm sure your right about the odds of two in a row being bad... I did in fact feel a bit of resistance getting those leads in the...

I have the first board I can try to clean up and post a pic… definitely weird.., but you could be right.. The zener I used does have a...

This one gave me a fit to get working but after all said and done it works and sounds pretty good, Not my favorite fuzz but it is loud...

Solved…. I think others need to check their PCBs because both of my PCBs have a dead trace between R12 and the D2 diode.. Ran a pice of...

R12 4.5 volts R14 0 volts D2 5.1 zener 0 volts C6 4.5 volts on pin 1

I'll do some voltage checking in a bit on it... had the exact same issue with the other board as well...

At my wits end with 2nd attempt… built completely stock specs basically Q3 is NPN MP38 70 hfe with about 200 leakage Used a 5.1 V zener...

You're a good cunt though.

Update! I've been doing a bit of fab work for this thing. Updates: fuck it, I'm gonna put it in a pre-made cab. Why? Cause I want to...