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It makes me want to start taking out 555 timers and creating dc-dc converters... I can almost feel the electrocution risk!

Free ventilation holes! Makes the silicon inside go faster.

I've seen people work in shops rawdogging an aggressive sanding job, cancer risk or no, their lungs probably look like 30% sawdust haha

Inductance. Since the primary/secondary of transformer are coils, they have a much higher inductance than a resistor, whose impedance is negligible even in the M ohm range. The idea is to mimic the inductance of a guitar pickup, which is also a coil. Or at least, that's the idea, I imagine. It...

All metric equivalents are sorted under their nearest AWG measurement. So when I select 24 AWG on Farnell, it'll come up with everything around 0.23mm^2 :)

22 is probably a bit too big for most purposes! I'll stick with 24 awg from one of those links ;) thanks again!

Personally I prefer an over jacket. I have a very bad habit of just, pulling zipcord apart. Apparently a part of my brain just hasn't grown up lmao. I would greatly appreciate the link. Thanks mate :)

Yeah, I don't want to take up 10% of my board space with room made for barrel jacks 😂

This may seem silly, but I genuinely can't find unscreened/non-shielded 2 conductor cable of 24AWG to make DC cables for pedals in any of my regular electronics places (Farnell, Mouser, Digi-key). I mean, I can, but it's always for quantities I don't need like 100M. Other gauges and...

Sounds like a ground loop issue. I'm honestly not too pleased with how the inputs/outputs of this pedal are handled in PedalPCB's documentation. I assume the reasoning is that not everyone is going to have isolated jacks on hand to build this. Whatever about input/output jacks, I would always...

Fair enough. Nothing is worse to deal with than a crappy jack. If that doesn't work, I would recommending drilling a small, short screw through the wood of your control cavity, then attach some sort of grounding tab to it, and to that tab, put a 100n cap from that to the + on your on board...

I'm glad to hear that helped. (y) You using an electrolytic or film cap on as the output cap? Schematics say film. I wonder if the relatively high output impedance of the NE5532 opamp would contribute to the issue (it being a bjt opamp). The pedalpcb schematics have the Boss/Mr Black style...

Sounds like maybe a bypass issue? I've had pedals I've built exhibit noise similar to that, fixed by a 100n cap from +9V as soon as it comes into the pedal straight to the enclosure. This ensures that AC signals see + and ground at the same voltage potential and can help create a really...

Can we have pictures of the insides? Depending on the room you have to work with, it could be easy to try some solutions mentioned in this thread. A pedal that small might be a fair bit more difficult to add stuff to than a diy pedal with discrete jacks and power connectors and all that jazz.

That's totally fair! This certainly looks like a challenging one to pin down, but with the schematic I fully believe that with enough trial and error, you'll be able to nail it. (y) Does that have a diode check function? I believe that will be important to figure out what is going on.

That's kind of the gist of Mr Black Pedals article... like I said, it's good, but not great. He suggests removing the pulldown resistor at the input (because the input of the pedal circuit will be switched with ground anyways, or at least it should be), and add those two resistors I mentioned in...

Mmmmaybe at a stretch the 2u2 coupling electrolytic is causing problems cos of ESR. Do you have any film caps to jam in there? Maybe in a tantalum. Barring that, put a 100k resistor to ground between the last volume pot and the output. Then a 1k to in series from the volume pot output to the...

Switch bouncing and etc will probably contribute to that. Maybe boss's updated switch/buffer for the waza series isn't such a bad idea.

Popping is a genuine menace, even if you do everything, "properly." Here's an idea for solving , "L.E.D. popping," from amz. I put that in quotation marks because, honestly, I've never found LEDs to be a source of popping. Maybe it's an issue in this case. Here's an annoying article from Mr...

I highly recommend using isolated jacks (at least on the output) for a build like this. Tie the ground lug of the input jack to the chasis (as near as possible to the entry point, so something like a star washer around the jack would do). On the output side, tie the ground lug to chasis via a...