comradehoser
Well-known member
Here's a mystery:
I completed off board wiring to finish and test 3 pedals. One, the Aion aurora deluxe/Keeley comp (the board was mistakenly sent instead of the Andromeda, and that's another story). I don't have super great luck with compressor builds, but as with aion's meridian, it fired right up and compressed stuff real good. I could tell, yes, that's some compression.
Two, the moonn f(x)=fuzzyness², a many flavors fuzz face with silicon transistors and jfets and different clipping deals.
Three, the moonn Octobot, a cd4049ube/cd4040 powered octaving fuzz.
Both of these very different circuits exhibit the same odd behavior. When effect is switched, there is no signal but a 60-80 bpm beep/tick. High frequency and crystalline sounding. It's very regular and is independent of pot settings or incoming signal (no input required). Also not dependent on grounding wiring (why the Octobot has a redundant ground from input jack to 3pdt).
I worked on the Octobot, and I have 9.4 volts coming in and going down to the foot switch 9v pad. Some reasonable voltage (around 5v) is being delivered to the ICs.
Components seem to be in the proper orientation and connections seem to be correct, including the 3pdt--yes it is supposed to look that way because Moonn inverts the pads so that input and output are opposite the sides where the in/out jacks are (it's his preferred 3pdt wiring set up, don't ask me).
This seems real distinctive across both pedals so I'm thinking it's a common element, something early on in the signal, like a cap charging and discharging? Or the funky 1n4001 protection deal maybe not happy? Power coupling cap looks good and I don't see any bridges even though moon's layouts have pads miiiiighty close together
Sorry I can't lift the pots because of impinging on switches/other pots. I can assure you I double checked my solder joints and cleaned the board.
I've built a bunch of moonn boards without issues. This one is too weird but so distinctive maybe it's an easy i.d., so i beseech you my peeps, what do you think this could this be?
I completed off board wiring to finish and test 3 pedals. One, the Aion aurora deluxe/Keeley comp (the board was mistakenly sent instead of the Andromeda, and that's another story). I don't have super great luck with compressor builds, but as with aion's meridian, it fired right up and compressed stuff real good. I could tell, yes, that's some compression.
Two, the moonn f(x)=fuzzyness², a many flavors fuzz face with silicon transistors and jfets and different clipping deals.
Three, the moonn Octobot, a cd4049ube/cd4040 powered octaving fuzz.
Both of these very different circuits exhibit the same odd behavior. When effect is switched, there is no signal but a 60-80 bpm beep/tick. High frequency and crystalline sounding. It's very regular and is independent of pot settings or incoming signal (no input required). Also not dependent on grounding wiring (why the Octobot has a redundant ground from input jack to 3pdt).
I worked on the Octobot, and I have 9.4 volts coming in and going down to the foot switch 9v pad. Some reasonable voltage (around 5v) is being delivered to the ICs.
Components seem to be in the proper orientation and connections seem to be correct, including the 3pdt--yes it is supposed to look that way because Moonn inverts the pads so that input and output are opposite the sides where the in/out jacks are (it's his preferred 3pdt wiring set up, don't ask me).
This seems real distinctive across both pedals so I'm thinking it's a common element, something early on in the signal, like a cap charging and discharging? Or the funky 1n4001 protection deal maybe not happy? Power coupling cap looks good and I don't see any bridges even though moon's layouts have pads miiiiighty close together
Sorry I can't lift the pots because of impinging on switches/other pots. I can assure you I double checked my solder joints and cleaned the board.
I've built a bunch of moonn boards without issues. This one is too weird but so distinctive maybe it's an easy i.d., so i beseech you my peeps, what do you think this could this be?
