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Alright so I went back and double checked all my joints. They all looked pretty solid to me but I reflowed them regardless. Still not getting anything other than 8.9v through the duration of the trimpot’s sweep. Ill probably replace the trim pot when I have some more time, but here’s the...

I’m interested!

Thanks for all your help! I think I’ll have some time in the next couple days to take a whack at it. I’ll report back with the results after reflowing

Yea the voltage just stays at 8.9v pretty much the whole sweep. Once it hits fully clockwise it moves to 9v but that’s about it.

Oh yea sorry, it’s -8.9-9v. Need to get better about specifics when troubleshooting. If I’m unable to get any voltage change when biasing the silicon transistors, could the trim pot be the issue?

So I just took some readings, the germanium side I was able to bias to -4.5v (I had just biased it by ear previously). The silicon side I'm only getting 8.9-9v readings on the collector, regardless of what I do to bias it. Same with pin #5 on the chargepump.

Oops, forgot to update the picture prior to posting. Sorry about that! For some reason there was a 072 hiding out in my bag of 1044s. The correct chip is in there and I’m still getting all the weird noise

Hey all, Just put together a Twin Face build recently and while it technically "works", it's making some weird noises in the process. The silicon side is super noisy, and has a decent amount of hiss in the noise floor. For both silicon and germanium, if my guitar volume knob is at anything less...

Yea I’m diggin how it turned out as well. I got the toggles, knobs and 3pdt from Love My Switches!

Hey all! Finished up this Black Arts Toneworks Pharaoh build over the weekend. When I first fired it up I was getting this whine coming through the signal. After some digging around with an audio probe it seemed to be coming directly from the DC jack itself. I tried using a different power...

It's weird, all the Aion FX builds have their wiring set up fairly similarly to what I did here. I've done a good amount of their builds and never had any issue like this from that wiring layout, but I went back and switched everything by rewiring ground to the input instead. I took an audio...

Hey all! I know this isn't a PPCB build but I'm hoping to get a bit of insight on what could be causing this issue. The pedal itself seems to be working fine, everything does what it's advertised to do, however when I have the level and/or fuzz up high enough I get this low pitched whine/squeal...

Oh man, what a beautiful guitar! Thanks for the input. They seem like great starter baritones (which is exactly what I'm looking for right now) so I might have to shop around for one soon here.

Thanks for the susbtantial write up/report. I really love my Calliope build, which is Catalinbread's take on a Harmonic Percolator, so I'm curious to see how these two are different from one another. Also, semi-unrelated but you mention that you have a baritone tele. Is that one of the squire...

I don't have it at this point, but I'm pretty sure my first pedal was a Tube Screamer in like, 2006. I wanted a straight up distortion pedal and had no idea what a Tube Screamer actually did, but I figured since it had the word "Screamer" in the name, it would probably do what I was looking for...

Nice looking build! I love the "doodle" art that you put on there. What'd you end up using for the 475k resistor? I can't seem to find those anywhere, and am hoping that a 470k resistor will work in its place.

Both Lenny and Riveria Paradise have always felt like siblings in my mind. SRV did such a killer job having those two songs feel like they could almost be outtakes from one another while also being fairly different at the same time.

Thank you! It’s actually a waterslide decal. And yea the circuit is pretty crazy sounding, but lots of fun to play around with.

Hey everyone! I finished putting this guy together yesterday, and it is something else! Overall the build itself is pretty straightforward; relatively low parts count, nothing too obscure or hard to find, and the breakout board for the rotary switch was a super helpful touch. It took me a...

As much as I hate buying from them and would much rather support smaller (or even local) vendors, I will buy 3pdt switches, jacks, and the occasional enclosure from them. I bought a bag of 10 3pdts for like, $25 I think and made sure to check them all before using them and they all passed the...