Kliche Mini SE effecting tone while bypassed

[lweissel]

Hello all, apologies if I’m in the wrong place, this is my first time posting here.

Today I finished a Kliche Mini SE build, and I am generally pleased. The pedal works when engaged; LED lights up, no weird/unexpected sounds, jury is still out on tone, but it’s alive! However, when the pedal is in bypass, the pots still effect the signal passing through the pedal, just at a much lower rate. It’s like having 1/10th of the pedal on if that makes sense.

The only thing I can think of is the wires to the footswitch breakout board might be pinched against the main board (see pictures, due to my routing it was a tight fit). The negative tab for each of the jacks is also a little close to the corner of the enclosure so I used some electrical tape to shield things. Aside from that everything else is pretty much standard. I can upload more pictures of the other side of the PCB tomorrow.

Any advice or tips would be appreciated TIA!

EDIT: After unscrewing the footswitch from the enclosure it appears the wires are not being pinched. With the footswitch dangling the issue still persists.

 

[Robert]

 

[lweissel]

Unfortunately that doesn’t appear to be the issue. I might require the 1/4 jacks just to be safe, but you can see in these photos that after adjusting the wires there is proper clearance around all lugs.

 

[Vild]

I always go ahead and bend them in just in case

 

[falco_femoralis]

the kliche isa buffered bypass so it means your "bypass" signal is on the board too and based on your symptoms seems like its bleeding into the rest of the circuit. You're going to want to take it out of the enclosure and look closely at your soldering and the ICs and see if anything is shorting when it shouldn't.

 

[Coda]

Quadruple check your dual-ganged pot. If you can fit it, get tape over as much of the legs as possible. I build a Klon years ago and had the same issue, more or less. With Klon builds 80% of the time it’s the dual-gang grounding out every time…

 

[giovanni]

Yeah I had the same problem with some other pedal. I put a piece of thick cardboard between pot and PCB.