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Finished up an Oxide / Mostortion. Used a TL072 in lieu of the CA3260. Sounds great to my ears! Really love it at low and mid gain settings. Loses a bit of brightness at full gain, but I still dig it. Fun, quick build. Happy with the result.

Here’s my Parthenon. It took some squeezing to get it to fit right - the DPDT was too big. I know there are different sizes - thought I bought the right one, but it was awhile ago so I can’t be sure. I took a picture of the front side. Had to drill the holes for the DPDT and the drive pot a bit...

Damn, why you gotta break it down like that, now I don’t even want to build mine, haha. Kidding though, thanks for the good info.

Barbershop is close for low gain stuff, and it does have the voltage control. But the Mini gets into high gain/fuzz territory and the I find the voltage to be more useful. I love both pedals though. Hoping there is a Mini board in the works. I’ve heard the Pigtronics Polysaturator aka PolyHog...

Hello, I have a quick question. I have a Tommy v1 board and a Tommy v3 board, but I bought parts for two Tommy v1s. Would 1u caps make any difference at c4 and c6 on the Tommy v3? It’s supposed to be 820n. Thanks!!!

Ok, just to recap. I was using too much solder, my iron was not hot enough, I thought I wired the power jack backward but was mistaken, I plugged my guitar signal into the output when I was signal testing, and I used 330K resistors instead of 330r. Feeling humbled, but very happy to say the...

Here’s a vid checking the signal at all the transistor collectors, still only getting it at Q4

@Chuck D. Bones ok yeah I’m a dummy it’s wired fine. Ok so I checked all the transistor voltages. Here they are: Q1E: 1.07 Q1B: 1.46 Q1C: 8.86 Q2E: 1.07 Q2B: 1.46 Q2C: 8.86 Q3E: 0.93 Q3B: 1.33 Q3C: 8.10 Q4E: 0.86 Q4B: 1.39 Q4C: 5.22 I’ll check for signal next. Would it be a good idea to go...

To answer your other question, it feels like they are in the sockets all the way, never had a problem with them being loose before.

Well damn. I just looked real quick before leaving for work and thought I figured it out! Will spend some more time on it tonight.

Oh boy. Took those measurements this morning before leaving for work. Q1E: 1.04, Q1B: 1.44. BUT I think I found the problem. I wired the power jack backwards. Will reverse tonight and see if that does it.

Subbed Q1 and got the same reading.

Ok so just to be sure - I have the multimeter set like this in the pic, then I connect the black lead to the negative terminal and the red lead to the collectors? If so, here’s what I got: Q1 - 8.76 Q2 - 8.76 Q3 - 8.02 Q4 - 5.18 Makes sense, I was messing with signal tester last night and Q4...

By on and off do you mean to just reflow everything? I’ve started testing for signal but I’m already lost!

Ok, just went through and sucked/reflowed a lot of the bad looking ones. Still no signal with pedal on. Just printed out the schematic and got my looper and signal tester ready. Gonna start testing. Iron is at 655.

Thanks for the response. I do have a DMM and a signal tester. I have the Hakko FX888D, I forget what tip I’m using. The transistors are 2N5088. I have a 3.3n cap socketed in c10 because I don’t have a 3.9n. Also have some resistor subs as well - 330r instead of 390r at R5, R11, and R16. And 2k2...

Hello, just finished a Green Russian Muffin Fuzz that doesn’t work! I’m still a noob and I’ve been lucky that my last 10 or so pedals have worked without issue, so I don’t have a lot of practice debugging. Bypass works, no sound when engaged. If anyone can see an issue in these pics or can help...

Ok thanks for everyone’s replies. Learning a lot. It’s definitely my least favorite part of the process so I’m probably not being patient enough! I should have said in the original post - this is a pre-powder coated enclosure from tayda (a textured black) that I stenciled. I was thinking it...

Hello - I clear coated an enclosure a couple months ago and I don’t know what exactly happened but it ain’t right that’s for sure. It was pretty cold out, and I might have used to much, those are my best guesses. It was sticky for a long time, and now it scratches very easily. See attached pic...

Thanks!