Symbolic Overdrive

[Causefarley]

Can anybody tell me how I can lesson the amount of clean signal that I hear out of this pedal?It sounds like my clean tone with a little bit of overdrive in the background. Hope this makes sense. I hear the same thing with Tube Screamers and Sd-1 type pedals as well but this seems even more so.

 

[music6000]

This is basically a modified Zendrive. if you mean it stays too Clean unless you crank the Gain pot.
You could get the Gain to come in earlier by changing the Sensitivity pot to B1M!

 

[Causefarley]

Even with the gain at max I still hear a lot of clean signal. Is this normal?

 

[music6000]

No, Their maybe other issues,
Post Good quality Pics of the Components & Wiring in Troubleshooting right here.

 

[music6000]

Even with the gain at max I still hear a lot of clean signal. Is this normal?

Can you confirm you have insulators between the Potentiometers & PCB on bottom pots, not Insulation tape!

 

[Causefarley]

Can you confirm you have insulators between the Potentiometers & PCB on bottom pots, not Insulation tape!

I do not have any insulation. I can not be 100% sure nothing is touching but I will check that out for sure and report back. Thanks!

 

[music6000]

I do not have any insulation. I can not be 100% sure nothing is touching but I will check that out for sure and report back. Thanks!

I believe that is your problem, you need to have this on any PCB build with Pots under it.
These are available from PedalPCB for Single or Double :

Potentiometer Insulator - PedalPCB.com

Pot Insulator

www.pedalpcb.com

These come free with 16mm pots when you purchase from Tayda :


You can cut a piece of plastic from a Icecream Lid , Don't use Insulation Tape!