Thanks, you're sure correct about having a "mini meltdown" when it doesn't work correctly the first time. Just need to be calm & logical! Your vid is a great reminder!
man ... more power to you, less words ... the fact that this still comes up when I am looking today says more than you did in this video, LOL!!! I mean that with all the best
thank you so much! please post more videos like this because I have spent hours upon hours knocking my head against the wall trying to find my fault and the majority of the problem is that I don't know how to find my fault (if that makes sense).
I was laughing when you showed the pots were reversed LOL But yeah, one mistake I did that frustrated me was wiring the battery snap positive to the wrong lug on the input jack of a pnp tonebender Mk 1.5 and the lug going to the dpdt switch. Got no signal at all and then I knew something was wrong with my wiring. You may have jinx me now cause I can see me wiring up pots in reverse now!
I purchased a Cornel FF for a lot of money and it had the worst transistors, later model, just criminal. So I bought a meter, soldering gun and a pair of well matched NKT's. To this day it sits on the shelf because I can't even tell how to set up the meter. Plenty info on how to solder, checking CBE etc but not much else.
Its issues like that though, the ones where you lose a bit of your sanity, that really give you a lesson you dont forget! If i can confirm the problem, i dont mind spending alot of time trying to find it. The ones i hate are problems that just go away on their own. You never find out what caused them and spend alot of time, and learn nothing.
You should watch my tutorial series video on 'fault diagnosing'. It contains all the basic, first approaches i take in fault diagnosing a pedal. 99.99% of faults can be solved without even a multimeter (for analogue DIY guitar pedal circuits).
Hey man, That's not how volume controls work. Look up and read about "voltage dividers." Basically when the pot is turned all the way down, all of the signal is being sent to ground regardless of what value the pot is. A 1k pot should still be able to turn the volume up and down 100%. Changing that value will have effects on output impedance, and current, but not how high or low the volume can go.
Hi, I've followed the full fault diagnose guide, but I can't seem to solve a problem on my fuzzface build. The Collector of the Q2 is acting like an open circuit (so it gets full 9V from the supply) and there's no voltage drop through the 470 and 8,2k resistors (hence the 9v on it). No effect comes through, just noise. Thx for the video, hope I can solve it, Arnau
Haha, hey look it happens to the best of us. :) That is exactly the sort of thing that i was trying to convey though. Dont lose your head because alot of the time, its something simple.
the worst i ever had was mis drilled holes on a radio shack pcb . when i would install the board , the holes were off a bit , causing the board to flex , this made the circuit function improperly . rebuilt it 4 times . wasted a month . it literally took 5 seconds to fix in the end . it isnt always a mistake , somethimes its easily overlooked . those instances are the worst , you almost need a second set of eyes or to step away ,
Hi. I builded a fuzz face clone npn bc109, inspired by your videos. The effect sounds how it should, I think, but there's a horrible interference sound mixed in the signal that gets even worst when you roll down the volume, you can hear radio stations and lots of noise. I have tried everything... used it with a 9v battery, with the 1spot, tried on the breadboard, on the enclosure... the sound just dond't go away. The pedal it's wired true bypass and even turned off and without any battery or dc power connected it's injecting noise into my other pedals (it's very notorious with any distortion effect). Even direct to the clean amp and with the effect off you can hear a slightly hum. What could be the problem? I'll really apreciate your opinion. It's really driving me crazy!
Did you ever get it figured out? Mine does that too, I have to turn the tone put all the way down on my guitar to keep it from squealing. I also but a bias put on mine that isn't doing what it's supposed to. It swings from low-distortion high-volume on one end to high-distortion low-volume on the other and never gates like it's supposed to.
so i have to scrach out the flux!!!!! so flux actually create bridges!!! i didn't know that!!!! that's probably the problem of my delay!!! cuz i can't figure out what's wrong with it, but with the amount of flux i used, the whole board is pretty much dipped in flux!!!!!
The wast time one of my circuits didn't worked, I was angry and all and searching for mistakes and it didn't wonted to work... ...then i plugged my guitar...... [facepalm] :D
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Thanks td7456. Yeah it happens to the best of us. You said it! Calmly and logically. Getting worked up over it just tends to compound the issue.
Thanks, you're sure correct about having a "mini meltdown" when it doesn't work correctly the first time. Just need to be calm & logical! Your vid is a great reminder!
man ... more power to you, less words ... the fact that this still comes up when I am looking today says more than you did in this video, LOL!!! I mean that with all the best
good advice as always man.. cool.
thank you so much! please post more videos like this because I have spent hours upon hours knocking my head against the wall trying to find my fault and the majority of the problem is that I don't know how to find my fault (if that makes sense).
I was laughing when you showed the pots were reversed LOL But yeah, one mistake I did that frustrated me was wiring the battery snap positive to the wrong lug on the input jack of a pnp tonebender Mk 1.5 and the lug going to the dpdt switch. Got no signal at all and then I knew something was wrong with my wiring. You may have jinx me now cause I can see me wiring up pots in reverse now!
I purchased a Cornel FF for a lot of money and it had the worst transistors, later model, just criminal. So I bought a meter, soldering gun and a pair of well matched NKT's. To this day it sits on the shelf because I can't even tell how to set up the meter. Plenty info on how to solder, checking CBE etc but not much else.
Its issues like that though, the ones where you lose a bit of your sanity, that really give you a lesson you dont forget! If i can confirm the problem, i dont mind spending alot of time trying to find it. The ones i hate are problems that just go away on their own. You never find out what caused them and spend alot of time, and learn nothing.
You should watch my tutorial series video on 'fault diagnosing'. It contains all the basic, first approaches i take in fault diagnosing a pedal. 99.99% of faults can be solved without even a multimeter (for analogue DIY guitar pedal circuits).
Hey man, That's not how volume controls work. Look up and read about "voltage dividers." Basically when the pot is turned all the way down, all of the signal is being sent to ground regardless of what value the pot is. A 1k pot should still be able to turn the volume up and down 100%. Changing that value will have effects on output impedance, and current, but not how high or low the volume can go.
Hi, I've followed the full fault diagnose guide, but I can't seem to solve a problem on my fuzzface build. The Collector of the Q2 is acting like an open circuit (so it gets full 9V from the supply) and there's no voltage drop through the 470 and 8,2k resistors (hence the 9v on it). No effect comes through, just noise.
Thx for the video, hope I can solve it,
Arnau
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Haha, hey look it happens to the best of us. :) That is exactly the sort of thing that i was trying to convey though. Dont lose your head because alot of the time, its something simple.
.. the video just cut off in the end in midsentence :O
Cool video! Tks a lot!
Thanks Rob :)
Hey man, what my video "isolating hardware from the enclosure", type that in youtube search. Might be your problem?
the worst i ever had was mis drilled holes on a radio shack pcb . when i would install the board , the holes were off a bit , causing the board to flex , this made the circuit function improperly . rebuilt it 4 times . wasted a month . it literally took 5 seconds to fix in the end . it isnt always a mistake , somethimes its easily overlooked . those instances are the worst , you almost need a second set of eyes or to step away ,
Hi.
I builded a fuzz face clone npn bc109, inspired by your videos. The effect sounds how it should, I think, but there's a horrible interference sound mixed in the signal that gets even worst when you roll down the volume, you can hear radio stations and lots of noise. I have tried everything... used it with a 9v battery, with the 1spot, tried on the breadboard, on the enclosure... the sound just dond't go away. The pedal it's wired true bypass and even turned off and without any battery or dc power connected it's injecting noise into my other pedals (it's very notorious with any distortion effect). Even direct to the clean amp and with the effect off you can hear a slightly hum.
What could be the problem?
I'll really apreciate your opinion. It's really driving me crazy!
Did you ever get it figured out? Mine does that too, I have to turn the tone put all the way down on my guitar to keep it from squealing. I also but a bias put on mine that isn't doing what it's supposed to. It swings from low-distortion high-volume on one end to high-distortion low-volume on the other and never gates like it's supposed to.
so i have to scrach out the flux!!!!! so flux actually create bridges!!! i didn't know that!!!! that's probably the problem of my delay!!! cuz i can't figure out what's wrong with it, but with the amount of flux i used, the whole board is pretty much dipped in flux!!!!!
I do that all the time :(
The wast time one of my circuits didn't worked, I was angry and all and searching for mistakes and it didn't wonted to work...
...then i plugged my guitar...... [facepalm] :D