Mach 1 no sound when engaged

ADAOCE

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Have a Mach 1 that has no sound at all when engaged. Bypass and LED work fine. I’ve checked my solder joints. Didn’t see any cold looking joints. I touched up a few resistors so that the solder penetrated both sides. I even tried a different opa2134 and a tl072.

I’ve recorded the following IC voltages with the opa2134

1: 4.46
2: 5.03
3: 0
4: 0
5: 0.16
6: 0.59
7: 4.46
8: 8.2

I’ve attached some pictures of the board from the top side. I know it could use an IPA wipe down but to be honest that’s never resulted in an issue like this for me and I’ve done ones that looked worse.

mill have to wait til tomorrow to get a picture of the underside (I stupidly didn’t take a picture when I pulled it out to reflow joints). Underside looks better than top though since that’s the side I soldered from.

anyways I’m just hoping these ic voltages are enlightening. TIA
 

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I’ll give this another good cleaning tomorrow. I found a tiny little plastic bristle brush that should do much better at cleaning all the crevices. There are no visible solder bridges so it must be some tiny speck stuck in the flux somewhere.
 
it could be in which case we are chasing are tails. Try some of that electronic cleaner, it works wonders, just dont spray it on the fron of board, if the cap values are just printed on it eats the ink. I spray the brush then scrub the front.
 
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