SOLVED Chela builds have fizz in note decay

[mekrob69]

Good morning,

I recently built 2 chela clones, one with nicer components and one with cheaper stuff. The one with nicer components does sound better, but both seem to suffer from a grainy breakup behind the signal, especially at lower gain settings (which I don’t see in the demo videos by EQD). Once the gain is cranked that blends with the saturation of the pedal, which is fuzzier than I was ready for.

Here is a video showing the problem. At lower gain settings it’s very obvious, after about half gain it’s not super noticeable because the whole signal gets so saturated.

After a lot of research last night my two best guesses are the TL072 being bad or the LEDs, I was curious if a clear/white LED would help, because a gut shot reveled the Talons uses clear LEDs rather than red.

 

[mekrob69]

Wow! You have a great wife!

FWIW I rarely like LED clipping. I built a Chela with 2 pairs of 1N4148s instead and like it a lot better.

Yes she’s the best! She also helped me with my labels since her handwriting is way better than mine. Here’s the finished pedals, came out pretty great for my first ever builds

 

[mekrob69]

Just wanted to say a huge thank you to this forum for helping me get my first two builds going, you were all so helpful and gave me so much wisdom for my next couple builds. I’m sure I’ll be back, but with new mistakes

I present the Chicken Hawk and the Clever Girl, both Chela pcbs

I am already thinking of trying new clipping diodes in the Clever Girl, I‘ve got spare 1N4001s, 1N34As and 1N5817s, as well as 6 colors of LEDs. I think I’ll try the ISP sockets. So even though I finished I’m nowhere near done haha. Thank you everyone