Spatialist Reverb Distorting Notes

[jaysharpwilliams]

I'm getting slightly distorted notes occasionally. It mostly sounds great but there's some static or clipping going on when higher intensity notes are played. Is there a way to reduce input gain or does anyone have an idea of what may be going on?

 

[Cybercow]

Did you substitute any components? Are there active pickups on the guitar?

 

[jaysharpwilliams]

no substitutions and regular pickups they are low output humbuckers and still get the artifacts on the coil tap as well.

Did you substitute any components? Are there active pickups on the guitar?

 

[Elktronics]

This is happening to me on an FV1 build too. I haven’t tracked down the issue, but is your issue similar to mine? You can hear it when I play hard

 

[jaysharpwilliams]

Possibly, I haven't fiddled with the modulated setting much. What's it like on Cavern?

 

[Elktronics]

This is not the same pedal, but exhibits the same symptoms that you described

 

[flemming]

On the extremely off chance that either of you are still struggling with this 2 years later.... I just built an Octagon and had a problem very similar to the video clip that @Elktronics posted. In my case it was an incorrect resistor value (100K instead of the intended 100R @ R8). Swapped it out and the weird static on firmer picked notes (and a bunch of low level background noise) went away.

 

[Robert]

Yep, that's gotten folks a few times in the past.

 

[Cybercow]

I've gotten few bad batches of TL072CP opamps from Tayda that exhibited a similar issue.

KNOWN BAD TL072CP DATE CODES from TAYDA:
18MDSHY
14AP8NM
07A5L8QM