sonolink
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Hello all
I would appreciate your help with this one please. Here’s the story:
I built a Valvewizard Glass Blower Booster (http://www.valvewizard.co.uk/glassblower.html) on vero board following the SabroTone Layout not long ago (http://www.sabrotone.com/?attachment_id=2218). I ran into some problems and followed Midwayfair’s suggestion to make some changes (http://groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=61496.0)
I tested the pedal on my 100w Engl Sovereign guitar amp and all was fine…
A couple of months later a friend borrowed the pedal to try it out and reports back that it doesn’t work !!!
He is plugging it into a 18w Plexi clone and basically the symptoms are that the pedal doesn’t let the sound through and the sound is heavily distorted and cut. I got the pedal back and checked it on my amp again and noticed that if I put it at the END of the pedal chain or on its own everything is ok but if I put it at the BEGINNING of a pedal chain, when I engage it or another pedal is engaged the sound is awful, kinda distorted and destroyed...
So I went with the pedal back to my friend's to check it out on his gear. Surprinsingly, on his amp the pedal sounds awful all the time and the amp has barely any output unless strung hard and even so the sound is crap.
I checked with another pedal I built without the mod suggested by Midwayfair and this one works fine but I’m not sure that the problem is in the mod since the mod was relevant to switching…
I’ve attached a clip with the crappy sound here:
https://soundcloud.com/thesoundkitchen/gtr-booster-ocd-amp
Any ideas please?
Thanks
Sono
I would appreciate your help with this one please. Here’s the story:
I built a Valvewizard Glass Blower Booster (http://www.valvewizard.co.uk/glassblower.html) on vero board following the SabroTone Layout not long ago (http://www.sabrotone.com/?attachment_id=2218). I ran into some problems and followed Midwayfair’s suggestion to make some changes (http://groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=61496.0)
I tested the pedal on my 100w Engl Sovereign guitar amp and all was fine…
A couple of months later a friend borrowed the pedal to try it out and reports back that it doesn’t work !!!
He is plugging it into a 18w Plexi clone and basically the symptoms are that the pedal doesn’t let the sound through and the sound is heavily distorted and cut. I got the pedal back and checked it on my amp again and noticed that if I put it at the END of the pedal chain or on its own everything is ok but if I put it at the BEGINNING of a pedal chain, when I engage it or another pedal is engaged the sound is awful, kinda distorted and destroyed...
So I went with the pedal back to my friend's to check it out on his gear. Surprinsingly, on his amp the pedal sounds awful all the time and the amp has barely any output unless strung hard and even so the sound is crap.
I checked with another pedal I built without the mod suggested by Midwayfair and this one works fine but I’m not sure that the problem is in the mod since the mod was relevant to switching…
I’ve attached a clip with the crappy sound here:
https://soundcloud.com/thesoundkitchen/gtr-booster-ocd-amp
Any ideas please?
Thanks
Sono