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I've been making progress on my latest round of builds, but with most of them, I tend to stop once the PCBs are populated and save them all for final wiring and assembly at the end. I could tell about halfway through the 6-Band EQ (slider version) that there was no stopping halfway, mostly due...

I gotta get me some of those!

Thanks for the info! I think I might go with the 1N34A diodes since 1) they're magical, and 2) they've got the cool blue stripe. :ROFLMAO:

I had a strong suspicion this would be the answer, but I figured better to ask than assume. :) A sort of follow-up question, I guess: even if the forward voltage for these two sets won't make a difference, what would the general difference between lower and higher forward voltage be in a hard...

Hi All, So I'm getting ready to start work on my Notakliche, and as I was going through my germanium diodes, I found a couple of options: 1. Two 1N34A diodes with forward voltage of .377 and .388 respectively. 2. Two D9E diodes with exact matching forward voltage of .280. A little internet...

I can neither confirm nor deny that theory. :cool:

That thought has definitely crossed my mind! :ROFLMAO:

I haven't been doing build reports for each pedal as I've gone along, but wrapping up 20 builds seemed like a good moment to stop and share my results so far: I posted troubleshooting threads about a couple of these, and I did post a build report on the Shade of Night pedal, just becAcause it...

I actually just placed my next PCB order: I decided to knock out the remaining JHS clones I didn't have and then start down a few new and interesting paths. I'm particularly excited about the Cepheid Chorus and the Parentheses Fuzz! (I also can never get enough of the Big Muff variants.) :)

This is helpful. I haven't had much reason to sort through the nuance of continuity checking beyond "beep" or "no beep." :) Yeah, I honestly have no idea what the underlying issue was or why the jumper wire fixed it. Given my reflowing and swapping of a few components, I'd like to think it...

Ha! Yeah, it probably would've been slightly more rewarding to finally get my first Klon clone or something like that working, but honestly, one of the reasons I ordered the Butt Head was because I'd read so many articles and watched so many videos about what a bizarre pedal the original Grunge...

PS--While I'm still interested in hearing any thoughts about the noisiness, my own research suggests this pedal is functioning as expected. The weird squeal went away once I fully assembled everything, and the noise, while still considerable, seems a bit more manageable now with some careful...

Okay, so it took a bit longer than I expected to get back to the work bench, but I've got some good news and some additional questions. First, though, here are a few answers I promised (in case anyone finds this thread down the road and wants to follow the bread crumbs): IC1 voltages are as...

I was originally going to go with red, but my wife said that Toothless's eyes are green, so the knobs should be green. As usual, she's the one who's correct!

You are definitely not wrong! :ROFLMAO:

So my third or fourth pedal build was a Stewmac Two Kings KoT clone build, and I loved everything about how it turned out. I've never played an actual KoT, but the clone sounded so good. Based on my daughter's love of How to Train Your Dragon, I decided to do a fun riff on the original KoT...

So I'm probably still a day or two away from finding some workbench time to get answers to the specific troubleshooting suggestions and questions some of you have offered, but I've got a lull at work at the moment, so I wanted to respond to a few questions/comments that don't require me to have...

This is really helpful! It might be a day or two at this point before I can get back to the workbench, but I'll start by working through your suggestions here and post some results soon.

No worries! I'm definitely aware that this thread is getting out of hand. :) But yeah, I've rechecked all of the resistor values and cap values, and I've also tested all of the ones that can be tested while soldered to the board. If there's an issue with a component at this point, it's a problem...

Another update in addition to my last two response posts: I spent the last few hours at the workbench with two goals: first, to explore what might be going on around C8 and IC1.1, and, second, to probe the full audio path. On the first front, I started by reflowing C8, but that didn't change...