LPSonicForge
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Hello guys. My first post and my first build from PedalPCB.com. The executive fuzz. As you can guess it’s not working. Ive spent over 12 hours the past 2 days scratching my brain on why this won’t work. I’ve followed the schematic and checked continuity everywhere. All seems fine there. I notice the build docs ask for NPN 2n3906 where what I have are PNP 2n3906 really. But flipping the transistor didn’t matter (I’m not sure that works anyways I’m just trying whatever I can). I originally sent reverse polarity to the unit in a mistake but then out of frustration pulled every component and started over with new components because I didn’t know what I fried. Here’s what I got now. Re-assembled pcb, Dismantled all switch, jacks, and 9v DC and hooked PCB to the pedal auditorium (I originally thought I had a solder bridge under the switch, so I pulled everything off but the basic PCB and hooked to the auditorium). Led works, bypass signal works, volume and attack knobs work, but when engaged it sounds no different from my clean sound. Sound passes thru and the knobs do adjust volume and if attack is at minimum there’s no sound. I’m at my parents now watching football so I don’t have any pictures of my build at the moment but I will post them when I get home if that helps, although it will be later tonight. I just can’t stop thinking about this. I guess my question is are what could have went wrong as this seemed an easy starter build. I mean no disrespect by this but are the build docs wrong about the transistor, is the pcb have an error as it was revised 10/2022 and I only found one similar issue where this layout wasn’t working, no other pictures. It could be that Ive done something stupid and uneducated because I’m new to this. Lol. Any help for rookie would be appreciated as I’d love to get this working and continue this hobby(I’ve order 7 pcbs, but I don’t wanna mess those up if I can’t figure this out) but I’m striking out here. I’m also trying to learn as much as possible about why this does that or that does this. Thank you for your time and any advice is much appreciated. Happy Holidays.
Haha. That I will do for sure! I didn’t wanna be totally ignorant coming on here. So I did learn a little tiny bit in those 12 plus hours reading watching and lurking around the forums and I made an audio probe.
