Low Tide high noise floor

giovanni

giovanni

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Hey guys, I recently finished this build and I really like the pedal, but the noise floor seems unusually high. As soon as I turn the pedal on, white noise is very audible. I’m using a CS7 which has been working fine for years. I’m wondering if I might have a bad cap or if I didn’t adjust the trim pots correctly? Did anybody have this problem? Besides the noise the pedal seems to be working fine. I’ll try to record some examples tomorrow.
 
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I forgot to mention that the noise is there even when the mix is at 0 and doesn’t change at all with mix. So I suspect there is something producing it in the clean path. I don’t think I get any BBD or oscillator noise at all.
 
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Alright, I did not have time to open the pedal up for more beauty shots, but I did record a short demo to exemplify the problem. You can hopefully hear the pedal clicking and the increased noise floor. Then I noodled with the pedal on, then turned the mix all the way down towards the end to show that the noise remains the same. Finally, you can hear that when I click the pedal off at the end, the noise goes away. I am thinking I should just audio prove along the clean signal path, but alas, there is no schematic in the build doc :( @Robert is this available anywhere? Or can you suggest which components to audio probe?

https://soundcloud.com/giovanni-x-botta%2Flow-tide-noise
 
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