Song Naga
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Hi all, and Happy 2026 to everyone!
I've got a Taqueria assembled but not working as expected (yet). It's got some strange behaviors that I've not seen in my pedal building experience thus far.
Signal through the pedal is suuuuper low: if I dime all the knobs I can barely hear something out of the pedal, otherwise it's silence and or a low hiss at the output. Bypass works fine (not surprising). The really odd behavior is this: when the bypass LED is on, the LED grows dimmer as I turn up the Volume pot, and goes out entirely as I turn the volume all the way up. I see that this pot has a lead tied to ground, which is where the LED is also connected, so I assume I've got some sort of grounding issue here. I've removed the circuit from the pedal enclosure, in case it was shorting on the enclosure somewhere, but the behavior persists.
Can anyone suggest how to approach troubleshooting this? Thanks in advance for any assistance.
I've got a Taqueria assembled but not working as expected (yet). It's got some strange behaviors that I've not seen in my pedal building experience thus far.
Signal through the pedal is suuuuper low: if I dime all the knobs I can barely hear something out of the pedal, otherwise it's silence and or a low hiss at the output. Bypass works fine (not surprising). The really odd behavior is this: when the bypass LED is on, the LED grows dimmer as I turn up the Volume pot, and goes out entirely as I turn the volume all the way up. I see that this pot has a lead tied to ground, which is where the LED is also connected, so I assume I've got some sort of grounding issue here. I've removed the circuit from the pedal enclosure, in case it was shorting on the enclosure somewhere, but the behavior persists.
Can anyone suggest how to approach troubleshooting this? Thanks in advance for any assistance.
