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^ I think it is too. My guitar had a pop when I turned on the switch when it was wired like this. You could try wiring it with the switch on the ground side, and such that the input of the PCB is grounded when it's off. I'm wondering if you would also need coupling caps as well

Do you have a volt meter? Can you measure for DC across R5 and the pulldown resistor we installed over the vol pot?

Yes, R5 is the pulldown resistor on the input, so try one after the vol pot between the output signal (lug 2 of vol pot) and ground. Try that and lmk

Well, what I do is build pedals for myself so I can achieve the ultimate toan, and sometimes I'll make some circuits I know will sell well. I make each one high quality and I don't half ass anything. Then, if I'm bored with a pedal or it didn't work with my setup, I can list it and sell them as...

Install a pulldown resistor. Here's a thread about it, and here's another one. Some people put it on the input, and others on the output. Depending on the way your board is set up, you may have to experiment with either one.

Selling pedals is more than about the product - it's also about brand identity and customer service. The average buyer on reverb doesn't know a thing about the insides of pedals, they just want something they can understand and someone they can trust to tell them it will sound good. Until you...

I love cascading transistor designs. The BSIAB2 is great, you can build it with the contour mod using the normal PCB pretty easily. The blues driver is probably going to sound best with your tele, but I would build them all to try out. My favorite is the Mad Professor Amber Overdrive. Such a...

I don't mind trying Amazon stuff, their return policy is pretty great. I've always used their Daiertek footswitches with no issue. Maybe 1 dead one out of 50. I recently bought a pack of Lumburg style DC jacks and used them in a couple pedals and they seem on par with the other offbrand lumburg...

That's cool! I love the simplicity of guitar mods

On your switch, you have the wire coming from the battery jumpered to the power wire to the board. This will allow the power to bypass the switch. What you want to do is connect the battery supply voltage to the center pin of the switch, then the wire going to the board with one of the outer...

On the back of the Basic Relay Bypass board there is a drawing for an LED using two of the legs of Q4. What is this for?

The pos wire from the battery should first go to the switch, then to the board. Then the board completes the circuit thru its ground connection. If you wired the pos wire from the battery to the board it would always get power - the switch is what interrupts this. I installed a stereo jack for...

I built this board a long time ago and it's been on the back burner until now. I went thru a few different ideas about how to get the pot to go where I wanted it to on the board. I roached one of the solder pads removing and installing the pot going thru different ideas. I wanted the pedal to...

The Wima 50v ones are small. If you want smaller than that, an MLCC, Tantalum, or low ESR electro is your best bet. Just watch the polarity, esp on the tantalum

I've found the easiest way to uninstall IC's is to yank the bulk of the solder out with good desoldering braid (I use Superwick 425-LF, tho I don't use lead free solder), from both the top and the bottom of the PCB, let it cool, then push each pin over inside its solder pad with the soldering...

It's correct, except the LED cannot be in series with the rest of the effect. You'll either have to omit the LED or find a 4pdt switch to put the LED on its own circuit. On mine I felt an LED was unnecessary because the position of the switch was enough of an indicator (up is on), and it also...

As per your updated photo... the IC below Vol 2 is upside down, and R14 is unpopulated. There is also a missing resistor just to the left of the upside down IC edit.. also a missing component just below Volume 1 These big builds are an exercise in stamina

It's possible to do top jacks with 1590b but it only works with certain kinds of jacks and you have to be super accurate. The 125b is much more forgiving. Since you have to order some anyway, I would just do all 3 as 125b's

I used 9203's from small bear

I used a GT402 in a duocast a while back, sounded okay. The pinout is different though