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I’ll order a new batch when I order parts this week. I’m thinking it’s not the transistors though. Now I’m wondering if there are different transistors I can swap out entirely to maybe see if I can get this thing sounding halfway decent. Otherwise I boxed it up with it biased the best I could...

Yeah I could probably do that later, one batch I used were CEN’s from Tayda.

Sorry had finals hell week for school and I’m finally able to revisit this pedal. Does it run on 18v then? So if the transistors won’t bias this low, does that mean the issue is with the transistors? I’d be surprised at that considering I’ve used multiple transistors from different batches and...

Yeah I swapped the wire on the input jack rather than risking overheating the pads, so yeah it is a little confusing. The only parts that have been swapped is the trim pot and the 10u debacle, which I just pulled out and put in a socket instead. Oh and I also removed the 9-pin, but I had this...

Ok now I’m pissed… corrected output wiring so input/output are correct, reflowed all my wiring (and most of my joints), replaced fucked up trim pot. Any other ideas for troubleshooting this thing before I pull my hair out or trash this mf? I double checked all my caps and MADE SURE all my...

Yeah interesting fuck up there! Got me worried so I socketed it and tried it both ways.

That’s weird on the circuit board I have it has it backwards

The trimmers or the wiring? Or both? I’ll definitely be looking into that, what exactly is Blu Tack?

Yeah they might not be, the right one is from Amazon (super shitty legs that break off pretty easy). Idk I just always have trouble with trimmers. I bought a bunch of the other white and blue ones in 50k, which are a bit sturdier and easy to use for biasing, just can’t find where I put those...

Yeah now that I’m looking at the pictures, the soldering definitely looks a little janky. I had the 9-pin in there but decided to pull it out and wire it up really quick, just trying to eliminate all the parts that I haven’t used on successful builds before. I’m worried about the trim pots too...

Thanks for this, pretty sure I have the groundwire you circled backwards.

Yeah I’ve seen ‘em! That’s good to know, more pictures incoming.

Jack wiring is correct I believe, and since the bypass is fine presumably that would mean it’s correct? I’ll send pictures later. There are no markings for positive/ground for the input/output jacks, so that was a little confusing. Anyway this one is really starting to piss me off, how likely is...

Second go at the Paragon (King of Tone build)… the first build I had some issues with the trimmers and things got messy desoldering. So… second time around, it’s passing signal and LED turns on, but no sound when pedal is engaged. Anyone see anything obvious of where I’m fucking up here?

So I reflowed all my solder joints, checked all my caps, swapped out the transistors for a different brand, my multimeter is down right now so I’m still biasing to ear… even still there’s just not a lot of volume on tap without even measuring the voltages, and still a pretty significant drop in...