UtilityBeltFX
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Okay so, this is an Aion FX Polaris (Human Gear Animato) that I modified using the Buff N Blend circuit in place of the normal bypass board. The pedal turns on and passes signal when I have the BnB turned all the way to the clean blend. But when I turn it up to the distortion circuit side of things, there is no signal. Only white noise as if I'm hearing the actual distortion being generated but no signal passing through it. The controls for VOL/DIST/TONE affect the noise that's exiting the pedal.
The reason I'm so stumped is because I've built this exact circuit with the Buff N Blend before and it worked perfectly the first time! My only possible hunch is that the first time I used Aion's supplied Mouser BOM to order everything, and this time I sourced everything myself, mainly through Tayda. The 2N5088's I got from Small Bear, and the germanium NTE102/103'a I got from NTEPartsDirect. So I don't feel like I bought any counterfit parts... It just feels like I screwed something up but can't figure out what. I took my digital multi-meter to the circuit last night and traced the whole thing. Power was making it's way all the way to the end! I sort of thought that should mean everything should be okay, but I'm still sort of a beginner at all this.
I just wanted to see if the brains here had any thoughts before I start ripping this thing apart and starting over.
Thank you all.
Ross
The reason I'm so stumped is because I've built this exact circuit with the Buff N Blend before and it worked perfectly the first time! My only possible hunch is that the first time I used Aion's supplied Mouser BOM to order everything, and this time I sourced everything myself, mainly through Tayda. The 2N5088's I got from Small Bear, and the germanium NTE102/103'a I got from NTEPartsDirect. So I don't feel like I bought any counterfit parts... It just feels like I screwed something up but can't figure out what. I took my digital multi-meter to the circuit last night and traced the whole thing. Power was making it's way all the way to the end! I sort of thought that should mean everything should be okay, but I'm still sort of a beginner at all this.
I just wanted to see if the brains here had any thoughts before I start ripping this thing apart and starting over.
Thank you all.
Ross

