Low Tide Modulator (no effect)

[zeitguy]

Recent build of Low Tide Modulator (Shallow Water clone). Using a J201 instead of the SK208-Y. Also a MN3207 instead of the VD3207D BB chip.

When circuit is on, signal goes through without issues. But no effect is heard at all. When Mix is all the way up, no signal is heard. I played around with the trim pots and nothing happened. Any ideas from you great pros?! Is my MN3207 the issue?

 

[comradehoser]

Never seen 0 ohm resistors to wire up a stomp switch before.

It would be useful to see the jacks in the image just to see if everything is wired correctly. You know power is flowing because of DMM measurements, or... ?

The effect can be a bit subtle in some settings. Make sure you have mix and depth right of noon, and the skew left of noon. I think there is a very useful post floating around on the forum on the setup and calibration procedures you might want to follow.

[edit: here it is. I would also suggest reading some of the many troubleshooting threads around the low tide.]

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[comradehoser]

If the above instructions don't work, it can probably help to take readings at the IC pins with the power plugged in and power on.