Effects in parallel.

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jlees1264

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Alright so I have someone who wants a RAT/Ds1 in parallel. I got everything connected and it is passing signal but it almost seems as If the Rat doesn't have any gain at all and just the volume control works. The DS1 works absolutely fine and actually really like the sound of it. I used 2 Aion effects kits to make it an easier build with what the customer wanted for mods.

Any suggestions?

It got late and I gave up for the night.
 
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FiveseveN said:
How did you mix the outputs? Hopefully not by just tying them together.
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This was my first shot running parallel and so far I have had almost no issues and built about 60 pedals. If I remember correctly after a night's sleep I think I ran everything in parallelfrom the boards to the foot switch. I'm thinking I know where I screwed up. Won't have time til this evening to troubleshoot. Will try and get a pic up before I leave for work.

I am almost positive my issue is coming from how I am wiring the output. It's all in parallel to a single footswitch. This was purely a let's see if this works trial run knowing it more than likely wasn't going to work right out of the gate. I am going to run both outputs to a b100k pot tonight and test from there. He wants them 50/50 anyways so I could just set it on a trimmer internally?
 
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Without looking Aion's schematic.... The DS-1 output is buffered so it is swamping the output from the Rat.

You'll need some form of mixer at the output. It can be as simple as a pair of resistors.
 
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