Ok, a year or so ago, I build the AionFx Polaris, which is the Human Gear Animato and had the brilliant idea to wire a Buff n Blend in point to point with it. Long story short, it never really worked and went to to non functional pile to debug later. I want to use it on bass.
Fast forward to this week-end, I've build a Buff n Blend on perf board and this time, it works (I don't think my signal routing was right and I fucked up some connections in my original try). Well, it kind of works.
When I engage/disengage the effect, there is often a clear loss of volume before it goes up again. So here are my questions.
1 - Did I do something wrong again : bad bias of the J113 or something else ?
2 - Is the Animato inverting the phase : It got 7 transistors, 2 of those being a Sziklai pair, the 5 others being 2N5088 (2N5088 in BOM, 2N3904 in the schematics), again 2 arranged in a Darlington pair I think ?
3 - What are the symptoms of an inverted phase pedal with the Buff n Blend
4 - If the problem is phase inversion, where in the buff n blend could I add a phase inverting circuit, like should I boost the clean effect, or before the effect, or after ?
GuitarPCB recommends to use the Stage3 to invert phase, my initial thought was that adding a boost on the clean signal, but would it be a good idea. I don't know if I would add the pot or a fixed value, the fat switch might make this even more versatile.
Fast forward to this week-end, I've build a Buff n Blend on perf board and this time, it works (I don't think my signal routing was right and I fucked up some connections in my original try). Well, it kind of works.
When I engage/disengage the effect, there is often a clear loss of volume before it goes up again. So here are my questions.
1 - Did I do something wrong again : bad bias of the J113 or something else ?
2 - Is the Animato inverting the phase : It got 7 transistors, 2 of those being a Sziklai pair, the 5 others being 2N5088 (2N5088 in BOM, 2N3904 in the schematics), again 2 arranged in a Darlington pair I think ?
3 - What are the symptoms of an inverted phase pedal with the Buff n Blend
4 - If the problem is phase inversion, where in the buff n blend could I add a phase inverting circuit, like should I boost the clean effect, or before the effect, or after ?
GuitarPCB recommends to use the Stage3 to invert phase, my initial thought was that adding a boost on the clean signal, but would it be a good idea. I don't know if I would add the pot or a fixed value, the fat switch might make this even more versatile.
