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thanks a bunch. sure, my method works, but it's defiantly unscientific.

ONE of you watched the video?

I don't know why I bother sometimes.

That would have been me innit.

Everyone else that posts here is a Philistine.

Thank God for my lapdog.

I watched too, Sounded pretty cool. can't wait for full mike demo!

Is that a leather clad cock and balls in your avatar?

The video looks class, getting a nice sound out of it, the full demo i am sure will rock socks across the nation

I watched it too, sounded gooood! Just forgot to drop some lurve <3

In other pedal news, I've somehow managed to kill the DC in on the Trew Grit when performing the very basic operation of switching the stupid backwards jacks around (ie, so input is on right, DUH @ pedal designer).

HOWEVER, the 9V battery clip still powers the pedal fine. I've resoldered a few iffy looking connections but can't seem to fathom it. Any ideeees, sparky types? The connections between the pin and ground on the power jack to the wirez seems to be fine.

Somewhat annoyed, may just have to get that Diago 9v battery clip power lead thingy, should I be bothered enough to mod it.

Pedal sounds cool Mike - pretty beefy. Nice work.

Doog wrote:I watched it too, sounded gooood! Just forgot to drop some lurve <3

In other pedal news, I've somehow managed to kill the DC in on the Trew Grit when performing the very basic operation of switching the stupid backwards jacks around (ie, so input is on right, DUH @ pedal designer).

HOWEVER, the 9V battery clip still powers the pedal fine. I've resoldered a few iffy looking connections but can't seem to fathom it. Any ideeees, sparky types? The connections between the pin and ground on the power jack to the wirez seems to be fine.

Somewhat annoyed, may just have to get that Diago 9v battery clip power lead thingy, should I be bothered enough to mod it.

We can fix it, no worries.

We do need some pictures though. You should see that the DC jack has 3 pins on it, which the battery jack is attached to also.

What it is, is a switch as well as a jack for the power input.

It has 3 pins, ground - +ve 1 and +ve 2


+ve1 is the 9v connection to the circuit.

+ve2 is connected to the battery clip +

When there is no DC jack in there, +ve1 and +ve2 are connected to each other, so the battery powers the circuit (the input jack breaks the ground connection when nothing is plugged in so that it doesn't drain but that's another story). When a DC jack is plugged in it disconnects +ve1 and +ve2 so the battery is out of the circuit and the DC jack is working. So the things to sanity check are the connections to the DC jack and from the DC jack to the battery/board/jacks etc, plus also the socket itself, is it plugging in ok? Does the battery stop working if you plug it in? (i.e. is the switch working?)

Did it work before, btw?

We can fix it, no worries.

<3

The battery does cut out when the power jack is inserted, aye, so I guess the switch works ok..

And it did work before, yeah. It's not like I did anything beyond cutting and pulling my way through all that stupid hot glue gunk and switched the jacks around.

I'll see if the craft shop in town do the same type of power jack so I've got a spare if need be:

I'll test continuity between every connection also when I take pix.

Sounds like a plan. We should be able to get a new jack if necessary. if you want I can just tack it onto a Banzai or Musikding order for you if necessary, or Maplin have one if you want one sooner.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?Tab ... 7&doy=23m5

http://www.banzaieffects.com/Jacks-DC-c-329.html

http://www.musikding.de/index.php/cat/c ... jacks.html

Here is another thing to try, but you'll have to sacrifice a spare DC lead with a jack on it from a dead power supply or one of those power bank dealies. Snip the leads and strip them, and check for continuity between the 9v and ground connections on the pedal with the leads while the jack is plugged in, and check the continuity at the DC jack lugs. If it's getting lost in the DC jack, then that's definitely the issue.

i watched the demo when i got home from work yesterday. it sounded good, but did you have the volume turned down on it or something? 'cause it was quieter than the clean signal.

bubbles_horwitz wrote:i watched the demo when i got home from work yesterday. it sounded good, but did you have the volume turned down on it or something? 'cause it was quieter than the clean signal.

yeah I had it turned down when I first clicked it on, i brought it up a little after that, there is LOTS of volume left in this pedal, I had it set to like 1.

speaking of orange, i've been wanting to do a weber kit for a while and i've currently been eyeballing their orange kit.
hopefully this summer i'll have some spare cash to do it.

yeah, before I got into pedals I was entertaining that. Looks complex though. I will start by building a small simple amp I think.

it's got a lot of stuff in it, but doesn't look too bad.
some of their vibrato circuits kinda scare me, though.

I think you have more amp experience than I do.

ha, probably not, i just poke around more than is probably wise.
i've actually almost got all the parts needed for my reverb unit. all i need is an output transformer and a reverb tank. it's taken me forever to source parts, but so far i've spent less than $50 on the thing, so it's totally worth it.