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    SOLVED Arachnid - Used tantalum in place of MLCC...

    The Arachnid calls for six 1u MLCC caps (I presume because of the tight spacing... but I'd be interested to learn if there are any other reasons why this type are required here). While building I realized that I didn't have any MLCC, but I did have a bunch of 1u tantalums which I thought...
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    SOLVED 6-Band EQ (slider) - Potentiometer issue

    I've encountered a very frustrating issue with the leftmost (100 Hz) slider pot and I've completely run out of ideas. After assembling everything and soldering the potentiometer and main boards together, I noticed that the leftmost pot was not boosting the low frequencies as expected when above...
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    SOLVED 6-Band EQ - Solder pad completely removed

    After trying unsuccessfully to troubleshoot an issue with my 6-Band EQ build, I decided I had no choice but to separate the two boards that were soldered together with three sets of pin-headers. This proved challenging, so I cut the pins physically and then desoldered the remains... While doing...
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    SOLVED SpiritBox noise/hiss

    I just finished a SpiritBox and the reverb effect is working (with the pots behaving as expected), but I'm getting a very noticeable hissing noise when the Depth knob is turned up. With Depth all the way down, I get a clean (no reverb) and loud guitar tone with no hiss at all. Also no hiss at...
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