Desolate Fuzz goes silent once turned On

tedbrackets

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Forgive me for the messy build, I'm not very experienced builder yet this is my third.

I'm trying to troubleshoot this for a while now & can't get my head around it

It's going silent as soon as I turn it on, but I hear pops and click when I turn on off the 3 switches so I'm assuming that this means something coming in from the output but the input is not working?

Not sure if it's that or grounding issue or just bad soldering

Thanks for the help :)
 

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A lot of your wiring has too much solder. They also look like cold joints. Can you show us a pic of the underside of the board?

First step is visual inspection. Check that your solder joints are good. Then double check all your components are the correct values. From there check your voltages on powered components. After that, audio probe to find the problem area.

I have a sneaking suspicion you’ve got some iffy soldering or something is shorting out.
 
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