Purplehaze13
New member
Dear Pedal builders,
I already built a Fuzz Factory and a Reverberation Machine clone and everything worked well on the first try.
I am skilled enough at soldering components.
But I have some troubles with my last try, the Leprechaun.
Here is a video of my pedal where I turn all the pot, maybe it can help somebody to guide me to troubleshot this circuit:
As you can see, when I turn down the Dispersion potentiometer, the effect is cut. When I turn up this potentiometer, the effect doesn't come back. I have to remove the supply connector and connect it again so that the pedal is active again. I checked all my welds and they are OK. My only tool is a multimeter, I can mesure anything if needed. I don't know what to do and I hope somebody will be able to help me to solve this problem because I already made a wonderful enclosure!
One more thing: now I just wired tip and switched tip together. But on a first try, I soldered this TRS connector:
As there is no connector for the sleeve in this connector, I was thinking that the the sleeve should be connected to the ground so I soldered the sleeve wire of the pcb where I put this red arrow. It was a bad idea as no sound at all came from the circuit even when it was bypassed. Now I removed this faulty connector and just wired tip and switched tip together but I told you about this step because maybe my problem came from this bad wiring which broken something?
And finally some pictures of my PCB:
I think I gave all the information that I can, do not hesitate if you need some more or some additional measures.
Have a nice weekend!
I already built a Fuzz Factory and a Reverberation Machine clone and everything worked well on the first try.
I am skilled enough at soldering components.
But I have some troubles with my last try, the Leprechaun.
Here is a video of my pedal where I turn all the pot, maybe it can help somebody to guide me to troubleshot this circuit:
As you can see, when I turn down the Dispersion potentiometer, the effect is cut. When I turn up this potentiometer, the effect doesn't come back. I have to remove the supply connector and connect it again so that the pedal is active again. I checked all my welds and they are OK. My only tool is a multimeter, I can mesure anything if needed. I don't know what to do and I hope somebody will be able to help me to solve this problem because I already made a wonderful enclosure!
One more thing: now I just wired tip and switched tip together. But on a first try, I soldered this TRS connector:
As there is no connector for the sleeve in this connector, I was thinking that the the sleeve should be connected to the ground so I soldered the sleeve wire of the pcb where I put this red arrow. It was a bad idea as no sound at all came from the circuit even when it was bypassed. Now I removed this faulty connector and just wired tip and switched tip together but I told you about this step because maybe my problem came from this bad wiring which broken something?
And finally some pictures of my PCB:
I think I gave all the information that I can, do not hesitate if you need some more or some additional measures.
Have a nice weekend!
