Son of Ben - No Signal

[Eike]

Hey there,

I tried to build a Son of Ben. It’s my second attempt to build a pedal ever, so please excuse my lacking knowledge.
The first mistake I made was to put everything in the case without testing first. Dry through was working, LED worked but no wet signal. I got everything out of the box again and checked if any of the pots were touching anything. I messed up the top right film capacitor and am not sure if that’s causing any trouble.

I am a little lost here. Something I was noticing while trimming Q2 and Q3: I get values in the range of 0.4V. But it should be 4V, right?
Any ideas? Would really appreciate any help

 

[jcpst]

Is this touching? Hard to tell.



Also, where did you source those J201s? An authentic through-hole version is a pricey part.

 

[Barry]

Have you Biased the transistors? Solder is a mess, many of those joints look pretty cold.