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Switch wiring seems fine to me, that was the first suspect. An audio probe would be very useful here, do you have one or can you build one? It's very simple, just a few wires and a cap (100nF would be fine). The schematic shows how the dry and wet signal both arrive at the output mixer, if...

It's vaguely related so I'll share an anecdote. I built the Effects Layouts Sunnbeam a little back, and it was pretty noisy. I thought it might be the random RC4558 chips that were from different places and I wasn't sure if they are all legit. I replaced them with RC4558's from LCSC first (no...

FWIW "a piezo" is basically a contact mic. Acoustic (well, electro-acoustic I guess?) guitars often use them, and you can get bridges with built-in piezo mics so you can add it to a normal guitar. Might need a separate output or extra circuitry otherwise, though. With a bunch of extra...

Well... not really, in practice. There might be some special cases where it might be true (and for some FV-1 based digital effect pedals like the Pythagoras, you switch out the EEPROM which holds the code - so in that case it will be extremely different, but it's a very special case). But most...

I would definitely start by poking wires to see if something has gotten loose. I don't think I've had it happen after a month, but some cold solder joints have come loose after some time. Or rather, maybe they were already loose but were still making contact. However, it's usually intermittent...

The Cioks can literally output 18V though, so no need to do anything fancy there.

There's a couple factors here. For one, low noise isn't really a huge focus in guitar pedals. Guitars are noisy (especially single coils), and a lot of pedals are fuzz which will for a lot of them be noisy no matter what (unless they're gated), so it's not usually worth it to chase low noise...

I forgot to reply to this earlier, but I absolutely agree that if you want the best results, you should probably breadboard it first and figure out which parts you want to use, and then build it straight away with those. Sockets do sometimes help (or would have helped) avoid issues with...

I mean this in the least offensive way possible, but you're basically saying "Ignoring that it doesn't really make any difference in the sound, should I use X or Y?" Just go with what feels best for you IMO, if you want carbon comp resistors because it makes the pedal feel cooler, use carbon...

For future reference, a 10k pot is a 10k pot, you did not change the pot values. What you did change was the pot taper, which basically means "where are the values distributed through the pot's travel". For a clarification check the graph on this page...

It's been pretty much the same price to Finland for a while now too, maybe small increases but more in line with general inflation and COL increases. Not sure how it's right now since IIRC a lot of my DHL packages came through Qatar for whatever reason, so... might be alternative/slower route...

I would personally expect them to level out at some point in the future, but that depends on if you have elections and how they go, too.

I'm gonna socket transistors even harder in the future :devilish: (not but really, you do you, if you hate sockets don't use them, they save me a lot of trouble with pretty much no downsides and would have saved even more if I had used them more in the last build I did)

That does sound like a pretty useful idea, if one has a 3D printer. Personally I just solder in three small metal sockets (or just singular SIP sockets with the plastic on), held on by blu tack while I solder them.

I know there's another thread on here hating on the diypedals subreddit, but you go and do this: Edit: Is it really side jacks if the enclosure is a square? Arguably it could also be top and bottom jacks?

To be fair, if it's not a pure music based competition, then showmanship is a part of putting on a performance.

Well, you're free to start that thread if you feel like it. Although I would strongly consider the harm you might cause by doing that in a DIY-forum first 👀

Add in some extra parts too, especially partially connected transistors and diodes that do nothing but puzzle people. Edit: "So it's a three transistor fuzz?" "Well more like two transistors and their cousin their mom forced them to take along who doesn't really contribute"

The build doc also has a wiring guide for that, but the six holes are because the jack in/out are on the board itself in that one (due to space I guess), so that's the two extra pads. You could skip the extra pads and wire it straight from the jack instead, similarly to other pedals. I guess...

How about just testing the continuity of the PCB with a multimeter? Presumably you have a schematic and know how the signal should flow? It's always possible that the PCB design is correct but you accidentally burned a trace somewhere. Testing the actual continuity would reveal that and you...