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Take a look at the Test Kitchen forum. There are tons of breadboarding tutorials with lots of hand holding. Breadboarding is intimidating until you actually do it and then wonder why you were worried in the first place.

Had to do a double take. I thought you soldered all your components on the wrong side of the board. Then I saw it was an Aion build. Either way, nice job.

Your charge pump is your first problem. Pins 1 and 8 should be around 9V which you mention above. Pin 5 should be -9V or close to it. Where did you get your charge pump? Could be a fake or got damaged.

Also, that's a pretty sweet audio probe you built.

To use the audio probe, plug your amp into the jack and connect ground to one of the ground point on the circuit. You'll need to inject some sort of signal going into the circuit (a looper pedal works great here). Trace through the schematic (this circuit is pretty ambitious for your first go...

For 1-knobbers, a chicken head.

You’re gonna need a bigger knob for that. Nice build and you’ll get no hate from me here 😛

That’s your issue. The pedal is tuned for guitar, not bass. There are better bass OD pedals out there. You might want to look up Chuck Bones bass klon for low end OD territory.

I think it's just design preference. They both accomplish the same goal (polarity protection), but go about it in different ways. I think any schottky diode will work there since they all have very low forward voltage.

THe jack isn't fully dead yet. You could probably get away with some solder just to finish testing here. Being careful, of course

Is that a black foot switch?

Decided to get some time under the iron this morning before work. I pulled out a newer board (Lead Solder Overdrive) and noticed that pot values are also labelled on the backside of the board. Definitely saves me the 0.13574 seconds to turn it over multiple times while putting the pots in...

I think you just gave yourself a challenge

Huh. I was right.

I’m pretty sure I did this for one of Chuck’s contests a few years ago. Every component I used had the number 1 in it. It wasn’t a requirement, but I thought I would give myself a challenge.

Djent 🤮 Thrash and Death 🤘

I just want to see who's got the best "chugs" here. Bring your Slayer A-Game

Another contest idea. Anybody want to have a "best riff" contest? It's gotta be from your own noodling and not somebody else's riff. Phone clips are allowed. Like, "best riff" through a Rat, Clean through a delay, etc. Those categories

Nice, clean build! Can you compare this to a Mercurial Boost? Better? Worse? Same?

Get a good amp that has the dirt characteristic you like. You won't need 90%+ of the pedals you make.