SOLVED Stumped with the Face Melter

[Fizz]

I took my time and had this wired up and looking good but it wouldn't work after I finished. I got sound and then when I clicked on the stomp, no sound and no LED. Took it out and connected power from my Protoboard to the board with everything wired but the DC jack and everything worked fine. Installed it back in the case with a new DC jack and nothing again except true bypass. What could it be?

 

[Mcknib]

I can't see it clearly but looks like you've got 9v going to the DC jack middle battery lug

 

[Nic]

I think + goes to the lug you did not use on the power jack. That one I use for switching a battery.

 

[Fizz]

Dang.. these DC jacks throw me every time. I'm getting the pos/neg non-battery ones next time. So just move it to the bottom one?

 

[Robert]

 

[jimilee]

I"ll echo what everyone else says, just to jump on the bandwagon.

 

[GizzWizzKing]

When I use this style dc jack I connect the input to both positive lugs. Since I never plan on adding a battery snap.

 

[Fizz]

Fortunately that was an easy fix. It is working now but very noisy. Is it supposed to be noisy? I like to keep the level up all the way along with the sizzle and boy does it sizzle when idling. Reminds me of what Ozzy used to say about Randy's amps.

 

[jimilee]

Fortunately that was an easy fix. It is working now but very noisy. Is it supposed to be noisy? I like to keep the level up all the way along with the sizzle and boy does it sizzle when idling. Reminds me of what Ozzy used to say about Randy's amps.
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If you keep the level up all the way, yes. It’s a high gain pedal. I imagine the front end of the amp is absolutely bleeding in pai . Sounds cool.

 

[Fizz]

If you keep the level up all the way, yes. It’s a high gain pedal. I imagine the front end of the amp is absolutely bleeding in pai . Sounds cool.

So yours does the same thing? This is by far the hissing-ist pedal I've ever owned. I was thinking I might have damaged a solder joint when I removed it. It's loud with the level down and the gain up a bit. Sounds great though when I am playing it and not hearing the hiss over the toan

 

[jimilee]

So yours does the same thing? This is by far the hissing-ist pedal I've ever owned. I was thinking I might have damaged a solder joint when I removed it. It's loud with the level down and the gain up a bit. Sounds great though when I am playing it and not hearing the hiss over the toan

It shouldn’t be quite that bad.

 

[Fizz]

It shouldn’t be quite that bad.

I'm going to reflow some solder on the pots and external wires and see if that helps.

 

[Laundryroom David]

It shouldn’t be quite that bad.

Yeah when I breadboarded it, the noise was not a problem at all.

 

[Fizz]

Yeah when I breadboarded it, the noise was not a problem at all.

I am going to try to build it out on the breadboard the way you did with that single op amp chip that you said had a nice mid range in another thread. I'm hoping when I reflow the solder, the noise will be gone.