Recent content by swelchy

I've built a couple of these and actually thought they sounded pretty awesome and very usable EQ section..... Might have something to do with the fact that I had been testing and playing live with either line6 stomp or Tonex the past decade.... I've just recently went back to playing a tube amp...

D9K Russian Germanium Diode

I remember my first build too...

very clean...

lets see your jacks wiring and does your led come on.. do you have bypass signal etc etc

I do see some dry joints on your caps..... And did you use the correct spst toggle? ON/ON

yah need better pictures... so we can see up close. Also are you sure your plugging into the correct input/output jack

Somethings not right with your voltages.... Your not getting close to 18V out of your chargepump if you've measured and recorded correctly

yah apparently after I finished playing after Sunday services I went home and didn't turn it off... Thank Golly I was scheduled to play the following Sunday because when I came in to setup it was already on and warmed up for me...lol. Thought Surely I cooked the tubes. Everything seems fine...

I May or may not have left my Hotrod Deluxe on for an entire week recently.

This looks similar to the pissing match I had a while back with GOTA and my own personal bad attitude against his... Everyone is always right and their opinion is louder on the internet....lol Still the hot take is OP came to spread his knowledge you should not copy someone trademark name...

what's the minimum voltage you can set and what is the highest you can set with your trimmer... and what value of trimmer was used for the build...... and like a mistake I measured recently.. are you measuring the correct transistor..

yah.... I've finally learned this is the way to do it and it's usually one of the first things I do now when something doesn't fire right up... You guys have taught me a ton.

First off welcome... Next.. read the stickies about the troubleshooting pages: Come back with pics or we will scorn you.. Picture pages picture pages...

100% for the OP and yourself... The short answer is check your component values.. verify any cold joints, solder bridges... and make yourself a circuit tracer to hook up and trace the circuit per the schematic.... it will point you to the exact spot the issue starts..