spi
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In the last year, I built 2 pedals where a tone control didn't have any effect--I fixed both of them by identifying a bad solder joint on the tone capacitor.
Those were easy to identify because the non-functional knob was a dead giveaway. But it makes me wonder how many pedals I may have built that have a component not working, but because it's not breaking the signal path or a control, it's not easily detectable.
Like maybe some of my builds are not reaching their full potential because something is off in the circuit OR maybe some accidental mod has upped the pedals game.
Anyone have stories to share around these kinds of mistakes?
Those were easy to identify because the non-functional knob was a dead giveaway. But it makes me wonder how many pedals I may have built that have a component not working, but because it's not breaking the signal path or a control, it's not easily detectable.
Like maybe some of my builds are not reaching their full potential because something is off in the circuit OR maybe some accidental mod has upped the pedals game.
Anyone have stories to share around these kinds of mistakes?
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