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jpalmer5948

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"compare to keely rotten apple"
wondering if the sour grape is too sour...i have zero sustain at any setting...super glitchy with fast decay...based on the big muff op amp circuit..and compared to the keely rotten apple...but dont sound anything like either one of those...not necessarily a bad thing, just not the sound i was looking for...no cream ehatsoever...just hard abrupt crunch...is this normal for this circuit?
 
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had alot more misses...too many to just be me, or coincidence...i mean, i have alot of tools and im pretty careful..never actually solved any of the issues of all my pile of duds that are stacking up..ive spent countless hrs on forums..tried everything i was advised, scoured the internet, and im fairly handy at hobby electronics...ive built at least 60+ pedals from pcbs and a ton from diagrams on vero and strip bord...starting to get frustrated...i read good reviews, want to try it...then over half of the builds i do dont work correctly, i get on heer to trouble shoot and see a shit ton of people that arr also having problems...someone please help
 
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id be willing to pay someone instead of buying the original pedal, to trouble shoot and fix...just to see EXACTLY what im doing wrong...just so i could get an actual second opinion...either the bords/instructions are complete shit, or i doing sometging terribly wrong and it would be worth it just to know if which is the case...
 
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jpalmer5948 said:
had alot more misses...too many to just be me, or coincidence...i mean, i have alot of tools and im pretty careful..never actually solved any of the issues of all my pile of duds that are stacking up..ive spent countless hrs on forums..tried everything i was advised, scoured the internet, and im fairly handy at hobby electronics...ive built at least 60+ pedals from pcbs and a ton from diagrams on vero and strip bord...starting to get frustrated...i read good reviews, want to try it...then over half of the builds i do dont work correctly, i get on heer to trouble shoot and see a shit ton of people that arr also having problems...someone please help
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To be totally Honest, the Solder joints are bad.
You need a Clean tinned Hot Solderering Iron at all times & 60/40 Solder - .5mm to .8mm.
If you have cleaned the Solder side already, It's really bad :
Bad Solder Joints.jpg
 
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so....the solder joints look sloppy..but that is simply resin residue...there are no bridges...and the advice that i was given for soldering (clean tip, 60/40 .5mm, etc) i already use those methods...
 
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jpalmer5948 said:
id be willing to pay someone instead of buying the original pedal, to trouble shoot and fix...just to see EXACTLY what im doing wrong...just so i could get an actual second opinion...either the bords/instructions are complete shit, or i doing sometging terribly wrong and it would be worth it just to know if which is the case...
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I’ve never received a bad board or instructions from pedalpcb. Over 20 builds in and all have worked perfectly.
 
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dlazzarini said:
I’ve never received a bad board or instructions from pedalpcb. Over 20 builds in and all have worked perfectly.
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ah.....thats what i thot...so i wish i knew what i was doing wrong...cause i pretty much do everything the same, except when i learn a better way...and some totally work, and some dont....i feel very helpless...i wish i had one on one with a master one time.....sense` miagi?
 
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how does that happen? need to understand for future reference...is it cut all the way thru, and how would one detect that?..does this mean there can never be any scratches on the shield?
 
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I'm a latecomer to this thread; I'm just now building the Sour Apple fuzz. But it looks like you're cutting in to the solder joints. I've been told this can cause a cold solder joint *after* you've soldered (or smoked) a perfect joint. It's OK to leave a little nib of the lead above your cut, in fact, it's probably a good thing to try. You can also go back and reflow all the solder joints which might fix some of the builds in your junkyard pile.

Cleaning up the flux is not essential to getting a perfectly working build. (At least in stompboxes.)

Hope you've had some successes this year. The failures can feel devastating unless you have some successes to balance them out!!
 
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