Recent content by ckendall924

That’s awesome! Yeah, the P2P stuff is really cool, but above my level right now. I think the perf board will be the PERF-ect compromise 😃 (please forget that I said that 😕)

Sick!

Appreciate the quick response. I’ll give the caps a go and see what happens. I was using a piece of cardboard between the pot and the pcb, but removed that for the picture. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Hey Chuck, I see your expertise sprinkled on a few of these Abyss forums. I just finished my Abyss today and I am not getting any vibrato. The LFO just stays lit, and does get brighter with the voice control. I'm assuming you will suggest similar to your comments above. So, it's ok to use...

Something is definitely not right with my pcb... I went over the values of the components and wasn't getting a read on R1, which is a 1M resistor. I've decided to replace that resistor, but I'm having a terrible time getting the solder out of one through hole. In the interim, I decided to...

I did get some LM386-N3 chips, so I can give that a whirl also.

Yeah, I had reflowed solder after those photos were taken, but I’ll triple check them.

Appreciate that… I’ll look at them again. I did go back over them and flowed new solder after that photo was taken, but I can triple check them. And yes, I’m using Weller. Wish I had an oscilloscope!

I received my replacement IC's and gave it a sound test. Still gating and scratchy. Maybe it's the pot?

StompBoxParts.com Just looked up the receipt, and it says the brand is New Japan Radio.

Very kind of you! I’m in US. (Don’t hate me for that) I just ordered a few variants of the LM386 (N1, N3, and N4) from StompBoxParts.com I’ll play around with them and see if that solves it.

Alrighty... I'm going to have to order some of those and give it a try. Thanks!

I know this has been posted previously and resolved, but I'm having this same issue and cannot resolve it using any of the suggestions on the previous post. I get clean bypass. LED turns on, great big Acapulco Gold sound when I dig in. But the sustain dies abruptly with a fuzzy gated sound. The...

Fixed! I reopened the pedal and slid a piece of cardboard in behind the EQ pots and the PCB. Re-tried the pedal as before with the 1spot and pedal direct to the amp. Still the light tapping/thumping noise. I had read on a different forum about a similar issue and the suggestion was made to put...

I had thought about doing that, but didn't. Man, that would be great if that's all it is! I'll give it a go and report back. Thanks!