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hi folks, i'm relatively new here, so if there's already a thread on this that comes mind, i'd appreciate a link. i'm looking into building a klon, but making some tweaks with popular mods. a toggle for clipping diodes, a toggle for a fat switch, and the one i need help with, a switch to change...

slight update. it seems that my testing of the godlyke power supply didn't make it past seeing if the LED came on. tried it again. works. quiet. no horrible noise. but also the LED isn't on. so 2 power supplies work and sound good but won't turn the light on, and some power supplies will turn...

2 of the radioshack adaptors can be switched. the godlyke is center pin negative. as is the 1spot.

sorry. that may have been a little too millennial cringe for this forum. head desk. like face palm. only your head into the desk. at my disposal i have a 9-12v switching adaptor from radio shack (read: old). that turns the pedal on but gives me the gnarly noise. reading 10.4v another 9v...

i'm getting -10 and 10 at pins 4 and 8 of IC1. based on micmac"s measurements, that's too high. no reason to write them all down, the readings at every leg of all 3 IC's is too high. 10v at R100 too. just measured the power adaptor i have. it's kicking out 10.4 (headdesk)

i surprisingly CAN rule that out, as i know my apartment to be very noisy and the first thing my guitar hits is an ISP hum extractor + decimator. with the pedal disengaged and a butt ton of gain on my amp instead, nearly silent.

the sea terror lives! i've got sound, all my controls work, and finally all that time i spent on paint paid off. the noise persists. it's not like a gainy amp hiss, it is a constant kind of square wave drone. the noise is affected by the tone controls as well as the gain, so it's a safe bet that...

so build #2 works as expected. noisy, but that might have a lot to do with it being not in a case. build #1 works... kinda. but there's a really obnoxious noise coming through. suppose I'll try the audio probe on that one again tomorrow. i'm willing to accept that after the constant reworking i...

you know, all of this looked fishy so i tried a different power supply .....MAN do i feel like a jackass. totally works. literally the first step in troubleshooting... start at the end and the beginning. is it plugged in? is a fuse blown? are YOU plugged in?

IC2 -.08 to -.1 at pin 4 -.15 at pin 6 -.17 at pin 7 -.36 at pin 8 IC1 -.08 to -.1 at pin 4 -.36 at pin 8 IC100 -.36 at pin 1 -.3 at pin 2 -.08 at pin 4 -.1 at pin 5 -.21 at pin 6 -.02 at pin 7 -.1 at pin 8 R100 -.36

got the materials and made the audio probe. fantastic piece of kit. signal at input, signal through C1, R1, and nothing on any pin of the first op amp. i mentioned that i bought enough parts to build 2 of these. so i built the second one, taking a lot of advice here and assembled it with...

All I’ve got is a multimeter. And I wouldn’t begin to know where to start with that.

I see what you’re seeing, it turns out that was a tiny bit of cotton from a qtip where I was cleaning up some flux 😅 And no, still not working. I started the other board last night. Everything is super tidy this time. But I’m afraid that when I try to fire it up I’m going to have the same issue...

i didn't at first, but i do now (and will do so moving forward)

Much appreciated. Is this correct? Because it still doesn’t work 😬. But I’m learning a lot here.

Can you elaborate? I couldn’t find any instructions on these jacks, and went with the “long side is positive, short is negative” approach.

all very reasonable and helpful advice. respectfully, it didn't work before i reflowed the board a half a dozen times and my helping hands scratched the board. they've been taped up since. if bunk op-amps weren't the issue, i'm hoping someone can spot what is. i bought enough parts to build 2...

Fresh op amps from a different supplier. Socketed this time in case they were bad. Lesson learned there. Replaced a resistor I’d broken. Reflowed every connection. Annnnnd it still doesn’t work.

you were right on all accounts. those were definitely in the wrong places. i knew my eyes were getting bad but i didn't realize i'd forgotten how to read 😅. and as predicted, that didn't fix the bigger issue at hand. though i very much appreciate you spotting that. i imagine it would have...

Hey all, first post, first build. i've done some much simpler circuits and mods, but this is the first big one. i have good bypass, but as soon as i turn on the pedal, it mutes. LED comes on. volume is up. cables are good. i have reflowed every connection, checked the orientation of every...