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Are you sure that's only some flux? Toggleswitches are easily melting and malfunctioning if we heat them too much or too long. Just pressing on a lug when the toggleswitch's plastic is hot may break the mechanism. With a multimeter on continuity mode you can make sure they work as they should...

Check the solder joints, reflow all suspicious pads. Hunt for shorts. Use the multimeter on continuity mode to make sure. Check the ground network with a multimeter set on continuity mode, all ground points should be connected. Check all polarized parts orientations, caps, ICs, diodes. Stick...

I built a musikding kit, so i used parts that i've been sent with the pcb. What do you mean by match the components ?

It's a slow paced group, maybe give it some time. I'm also curious to know if it was a mistake, or a modification to the original schematics with some real purpose. I find this part unclear : "I can't remember why I decided to wire in parallel, but I'm not the only one and I seem to recall it...

remove the paint inside the jacks holes. The circuit is grounded to the enclosure through the metalic rings of your jacks. I can't hear much in your recording, there is some high pitch noise but it sounds kind of quiet. Could be the electrical environment. Does it do the same noise in other...

I noticed that my Star Chamber build has a weaker delay with less amplitude and repeats when i engage some circuits before it. For example a looper/mixer/blender circuit (Pro-cessor from TH Custom Effects), or even a Boss GE-7. I also have this drop with the delay response after a little EQ...

i admit that i totally forgot the rotary switch, good point. ...and the octave up sound on my build is quite disturbing, but maybe it needs some calibration. I wonder if there's a way to modify the octave up sound ? Form some sort of sinusoidal with the octave up ? Maybe using a trimmer...

The Rat distortion is a small circuit, which makes it suited for vero or perfboard builds. There are few components, so it's easy to make the connections between parts without a pcb. As a diy builder, vero and perfboard projects are the most satisfaying because we are really doing everything...

Nick Williams as in N.E.W ? He is on GCI builders group forum on facebook. His user name is NE williams. He replied to me once about a question on N.E.W Bass Overdrive.

On my build, when the effect is off there is some clean signal coming from TIME OUT, but quieter than at SPACE OUT. Connected to TIME OUT : When the effect is engaged, both flanger and tremolo activated, there is only the flanging signal coming from this output. The modulation is stronger than...

Both Flangelicious versions are interesting circuits. Unfortunately the classic version is very noisy, there's a faucet/liquid type of background noises. Only way to get rid of it is to increase the signal volume going in the Flangelicious and turning it down after it, to change the...

Best Flanger i've heard is AD/A Flanger clone from Lectric Fx. Far above all the classic flanger circuits, in my humble opinion. I built the Xenotron, Lovetone "?" Flanger, and i think if we just consider the flanging sound, the A/DA is much better. Lovetone's circuit allows to do some...

i had a weak modulation too at first, a distinguished fellow member, fontoponto, told me to try to put a folded piece of paper between the led and the photo-resistor on the BBD board. It made the modulation more noticeable. My led was too bright so the effect couldn't work correctly. It was a...

What are these ge diodes doing in this circuit ? Some sort of filtering ?

From what i can see on your pictures, some of your soldering joints look suspicious. Some of the legs are bent on the pcb. That can cause shorts with nearby traces or soldering pads. Re-heat, bend them back to vertical position with the tip of your iron, and cut them if they are too long. Suck...

original were 1S188-FM, i guess they're discontinued.

Musikding standard ge diodes for this project are 1N60P. https://www.musikding.de/Germanium-Diode-1N60_1

I thought i had already too much circuits, i thought i decided that i wouldn't build more anytime soon. ...Then i saw that musikding had recently started selling Byzantium kits. I always wanted to build this one. I also realized that there is a few new delays available, i hesitated between...

Thanks for your reply ! I think the clock noises were triggered by a Black Eye (distortion with real tubes running internaly at 170V) which was connected to the same power supply. I removed the Black Eye from the signal chain and it's perfectly silent for now. From my experience, it looks...

Found this on diystompboxes, from M. Hammer : "Flangers are inherently noisy pedals, but there are a few things you might do. 1) IC1 (the 4558 closest to the connecting wires side of the board) is *always* on, so it provides the constant hiss background against which flanger/delay-path noise...