Promethium loses signal around r22

Song Naga

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Hi all,

I've got a Promethium that is outputting a very low signal when it's engaged. I've traced an input signal through the circuit and found that it seems to go 'poof' at the junction between R22 and Q3. I see a big meaty signal going into R22 but there is a constant ~7.9V voltage on the other side of it, and there does not seem to be much else going on downstream from this point signal-wise in the circuit. I'm guessing that the signal I'm hearing at the output is present at this point in the circuit, but is so small it's not visible on my rather simple oscilloscope.

Here's where I traced the signal to, the yellow point is where the signal seems to become lost.

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I've triple checked the components in this part of circuit to make sure I hadn't dropped something in the wrong spot, and the values seem good. Here's a photo of the board.

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Please let me know if you have any suggestions or questions that I can answer that might get this properly working, thank you!
 
1 E 7.94
2 B 8.80
3 C 3.87
Here you indicate 8.80 volts on the Base but on the schematic you show 7.9 volts. Possibly a cold solder joint?

You can check with a meter by putting the probes on the leads (not solder pads, the component leads) of Q3 base and corresponding lead of R11 and measuring voltage with pedal powered up. Any voltage indicates a cold joint.
 
Thank you for the suggestions. A continuity check between Q3 base and R11 is good. I just re-measured voltages and have 7.77v at the two following test points highlighted in yellow as of this measuring. I'm testing the component leads and not the pads, as you suggest.

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i think youve got e and b switched there.

The resistors all look right, i think but im not positive (not positive the calculator i used works the same for pnp) but that the collector voltage is low if it does. If it was my build id reflow every solder joint in the vicinity of q3.
 
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