PieterSneep
New member
So after the initial breakdown of defeat and despair I found this forum and I am hoping you fine folks could lend me a hand finding out what's wrong with my build. It's a Paragon Mini supplied by Musikding, from Germany.
(please pardon my plastic-melting soldering, but I hope you can appreciate the artwork...)
When I first plugged it in boxed:
* Bypass signal works
* When turned ON, there was a thumping sound and the LED would flash on and off along with the thump beat. Think 2 beats per second.
* Volume and Tone knobs did affect the thump noise. Not sure about Drive, was hard to tell.
* Same thump noise and flashes for both channels.
I unboxed the pedal thinking the pots shorted somewhere (it's tight in there). Then plugged back in, box open.
* Bypass signal still works
* When turned ON, there was no sound whatsoever on either channel
* Yet the LED's were working on both channels
* I noticed one of the op-amp chips was super hot. Like can't hold your finger on it for more than a second hot.
I looked up some photos of other Paragon Mini guts and noticed my op-amp chips were faced in opposite direction. Switching both in the direction according to the photos found online, I plug back in
(cover your eyes, this side is bad
* Bypass signal still works
* When turned ON, there is an audible hum, but no guitar signal.
* One channel has way louder hum than the other. But I also made the red channel "hot" and the yellow "normal". Could be that?
* All knobs seem to affect the hum the way you'd expect (volume louder, tone changes), yet again Drive is harder to distinct any changes
* Op-amp no longer gets hot.
* LED's still work both sides.
That's as far as I got. Is there anything I'm missing? I hope for my sanity's sake it's something obvious and easy to fix ;D
Thanks in advance!
Pieter
(please pardon my plastic-melting soldering, but I hope you can appreciate the artwork...)
When I first plugged it in boxed:
* Bypass signal works
* When turned ON, there was a thumping sound and the LED would flash on and off along with the thump beat. Think 2 beats per second.
* Volume and Tone knobs did affect the thump noise. Not sure about Drive, was hard to tell.
* Same thump noise and flashes for both channels.
I unboxed the pedal thinking the pots shorted somewhere (it's tight in there). Then plugged back in, box open.
* Bypass signal still works
* When turned ON, there was no sound whatsoever on either channel
* Yet the LED's were working on both channels
* I noticed one of the op-amp chips was super hot. Like can't hold your finger on it for more than a second hot.
I looked up some photos of other Paragon Mini guts and noticed my op-amp chips were faced in opposite direction. Switching both in the direction according to the photos found online, I plug back in
(cover your eyes, this side is bad
* Bypass signal still works
* When turned ON, there is an audible hum, but no guitar signal.
* One channel has way louder hum than the other. But I also made the red channel "hot" and the yellow "normal". Could be that?
* All knobs seem to affect the hum the way you'd expect (volume louder, tone changes), yet again Drive is harder to distinct any changes
* Op-amp no longer gets hot.
* LED's still work both sides.
That's as far as I got. Is there anything I'm missing? I hope for my sanity's sake it's something obvious and easy to fix ;D
Thanks in advance!
Pieter