nikyramone
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Hi everyone! First troubleshooting post so please bear with me and keep in mind that I am a noob with just a few months experience building pedals as a hobby (which im really enjoying!).
Anyway, after months gathering parts, waiting and waiting and waiting... and waiting for a single potentiometer I finally managed to gather everything I needed to build the Low Tide!! I was so excited. Unfortunately I can't manage to get this to work and I hope someone has a miracle solution for this. Here a short summary of the situation.
Here are some terrible pictures, sorry in advance for my terrible soldering technique. Thank you so much for the help!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Iu7ioRT0PN41ZpwU6U-BnoN7QF6GNGlB/view?usp=sharing
Anyway, after months gathering parts, waiting and waiting and waiting... and waiting for a single potentiometer I finally managed to gather everything I needed to build the Low Tide!! I was so excited. Unfortunately I can't manage to get this to work and I hope someone has a miracle solution for this. Here a short summary of the situation.
- When disengaged my guitar sounds perfectly fine.
- The first time I tried to plug it I got no sound I and I noticed that I had put the MCP602 reversed (here I freaked out, did I just burned everything doing this?).
- Now I hear sound but when engaged everything sounds distorted and crackly (kinda like the sag knob on the barbershop???). This happens with either mix at 0% or a 100% . It happens in either boost o pad mode and it is extremely sensitive to dynamics, if I play VERY quietly it can almost sound as a normal clean guitar (although never quite there) but if I strum a chord with strength the distortion is beyond this world. (it's kinda cool even).
- Absolutely all combinations of bias and gate keep this problem and as I said the problem remains with variations of pretty much all knobs (mix up, mix down, volume up, volume down...) The good news is that the effect is there so at least I don't think I have friend the randomizer IC yet (I can speed up the lfo, reduce the intensity)
- The bbd is from a reliable source (electric druid) but I only have a bunch of J201 through hole from Banzai.
- I have replaced all IC's and transistors (for the J201 just tried all the other ones from the same bag) for several other options that I had around the house except for the BBD and the randomizer, the problem persists.
Here are some terrible pictures, sorry in advance for my terrible soldering technique. Thank you so much for the help!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Iu7ioRT0PN41ZpwU6U-BnoN7QF6GNGlB/view?usp=sharing
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