Hello there, first time poster here. I've been wanting to build an octaver pedal for a while now, and I finally found the Ocelot PCB here. Ordered the parts then got to soldering them on.
Problem is, when I went to plug in my bass and test it, I wasn't getting the effect I was anticipating. The master volume knob worked, and when the pedal was on, the tone of the signal coming out sounded a bit different, but otherwise it sounded just like a plain signal to me. I went to it with my multimeter, but as far as I can tell, the connections all seem to be working.
Poking around on the web, I found out about making my own audio probe to try and diagnose the problem. I did that this past weekend, and got an interesting result: when I clipped the audio input of the probe to the input that should be the Sub 1 Octave signal, I was hearing audio, and it did sound a bit different, but it was drastically more quiet.
Looking around, apparently this is a feature of the Boss OC2 that the Ocelot is cloning, so this may be expected. But I'd just appreciate a second pair of eyes to make sure there's nothing obvious going wrong here. I'm similarly not seeing the LED light up when the pedal is plugged in and powered on, which makes me think something else is afoot here.
(Please ignore the broken ground cable coming from the input jack, it's snapped the umpteenth time).
Thank you!
Problem is, when I went to plug in my bass and test it, I wasn't getting the effect I was anticipating. The master volume knob worked, and when the pedal was on, the tone of the signal coming out sounded a bit different, but otherwise it sounded just like a plain signal to me. I went to it with my multimeter, but as far as I can tell, the connections all seem to be working.
Poking around on the web, I found out about making my own audio probe to try and diagnose the problem. I did that this past weekend, and got an interesting result: when I clipped the audio input of the probe to the input that should be the Sub 1 Octave signal, I was hearing audio, and it did sound a bit different, but it was drastically more quiet.
Looking around, apparently this is a feature of the Boss OC2 that the Ocelot is cloning, so this may be expected. But I'd just appreciate a second pair of eyes to make sure there's nothing obvious going wrong here. I'm similarly not seeing the LED light up when the pedal is plugged in and powered on, which makes me think something else is afoot here.
(Please ignore the broken ground cable coming from the input jack, it's snapped the umpteenth time).
Thank you!
