Newbie first build gone wrong

[Panagiotis Vekiloglou]

Hi everyone, i am newbie to the diy pedal stuff and if someone here has built the delegate compressor from pedal pcb, i need your help.
So when i connect the pedal to the power supply i don't get any guitar signal, only noise and when i turn the pedal on the leds turn on but the noise just gets louder. i checked if the components are at the right place multiple times and i think they are, so i don't know were the problem is. I know that the connections aren't the greatest but i wanted to ask you before re-soldering.
P.S. I have checked the pedal outside of the enclosure since i hadn't finished it yet, and i don't if it works as ground.

 

[temol]

You have pretty large blobs of solder there. Make sure there's no short between them. First - clean the board to remove resin/flux residue than check all the joints with loupe.

 

[Dan0h]

Turn up the heat on your iron and re flow all the components. From the top looks like no solder is getting down into the holes and from the bottoms you have blobs off solder. If your iron is hot enough it will flow the blobs down into the holes and make solid connections. Also make sure you have no bridges shorting out the signal. That’s the first step.

 

[Barry]

The ground in the top picture is going to the wrong tab on the jack, actually both grounds are on the wrong jack tab, should be the corner tab

 

[swyse]

The ground in the top picture is going to the wrong tab on the jack, actually both grounds are on the wrong jack tab, should be the corner tab

Good eye, also unless I missed something, I only see one connection, I don’t see the yellow wire making it to the jack.

 

[Jonnytexas]

Are the back of the pots insulated in any way? They can short against your solder joints.

 

[Dan M]

Also, I can’t see the power jack. Is it wired correctly?

 

[Feral Feline]

Red Leader: "Negative, it didn't go in — it just impacted on the surface."

Further to Dan0h's suggestion — make sure your iron tip is heating up the component lead AND its associated PCB pad. If you're just heating up the components' legs, that could explain the proton torpedos solder not flowing down the thermal exhaust port hole...

Use the heat, Vekilogluke, use the heat...