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Booyah. You are right on it add4- thanks. I actually took it over to Magic's place and we looked at it together- he used his probe box and was confused why there was no signal until closer inspection revealed the input jack had grounded to chassis- I think the tip or ring- forget. This made me remember that right before I finished I did a once over tightening of all the pot and jack nuts- tightening them- and my jacks are sooo close to corners that I must have turned the jack and grounded it. Magic turned the jack a bit and removed the tab for ring. So it was not a solder bridge (I also have a photo loupe I use a lot to inspect along the way and used in trying to track this issue down) For some reason it just didn't strike me to check the jacks.

It was great to see someone with more experience go through the process of testing and sorting it out.
Anyway it works great now and like you said if you keep at it you learn. Just rewiring the switch a second time felt so much better and I did it faster and cleaner than the first. I measured out the wire and such too and used hot glue to insulate certain spots. I know I will always pay closer attention to jack grounding in the future!

Thanks for the help! (Pics on first page updated- went crazy w hot glue but I'm done!)

If every pot seems to work, the problem might be ahead of them, you should make sure the input is not grounded by a solder bridge somewhere. you could have continuity, and a bridge to ground.. that would kill the signal.

Pulled the switch board, rewired- made sure to wrap wires and such- checked continuity to make sure no breaks. Still no dice. LED lights and I can hear crackle of gain adjust but no audio passing. I think I might replace the tall blue caps as they had pressure on them after I boxed it the 2nd time. Does that seem like a good idea to anyone? I def need to learn how to probe and get deeper into testing/diagnosis.

I did test tip of input all the way to outside pad of C1 and it was ok. I assume caps have to be powered and if drained will not show any continuity? Something after that outside C1 pad must be the cause. The pedal actually sounds right but for no audio passing- when I test it through amp I hear all the knobs have an effect.

Updated pics. Thx.

Nightmare. Pads popping off- pedal does not work. Luckily the 2 pads that came off were both on the side of the pcb that didn't matter on that particular spot.
I'm bummed. It worked fine then I tried hot glue- coating all the exposed metal near the pcb and such and mounting it and boxing it up but there was some pressure on some of the caps- I coated the tops w hot glue to avoid contact w enclosure but I'm stuck. Going to have to make an audio probe or whatever. LED lights, I can hear crackle in gain knob adjust but no audio is passed. Double checked wiring. Might just remove the add on switch board and wire the switch again.
*sigh* maybe I can get it working before rehearsal Tues night- been loving that thing.
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I got 10 of those boards you mentioned- a little tight for my Macheen build- might get some Mammoth boards too- and am installing one in the Macheen right now. I am thinking I can install the board either way as long as the lugs are horizontal and of course I wire the board properly. I think this is correct- it would only mean if the pedal was off when I installed it it would then be on after installation. Anyway- back to work! (also added pic to first page, will post another when complete.) Thanks.

If you search around there are 3PDT wiring boards available that can ease the pain of some of the offboard wiring.  Although they're currently sold out, THESE are particularly awesome

Sounds like you are making it more complicated than it needs to be but if your audio and video are separate you will def want to use a audio/visual sound each time you record a new segment- in other words clap your hands in front of the camera or better yet get 2 objects of highly contrasting colors and smack them together making a loud noise. Then later when you need to sync audio/video in your video editing software you sync loud/steep wave form with moment the 2 objects meet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapperboard

great tip- thx
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Is the wavform knob stepped to give all the wavforms on the graphic? This looks interesting but would be cool to have small wavform graphics around knob to select.
Very nice work!
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Great job! Can you please explain what all the controls/switches do?
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Any chance for a demo?

For sure. I'll do one today.

Did you post a demo? Por favor!
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sick build

Brian, lol- I think you meant to say 'interwebs!"

My god that is awesome. You win today's internet!

Very cool- will have to look at these- thanks in advance.
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I need tap tempo. Badly.
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Ya Brian sounds like a good idea. I know w audio cable they say to try and cross them (on stage etc.) at 90 degrees if they have to cross- maybe in such smaller scale it is not an issue.
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Anyone have schem or post that explains how you would add switches or such to rearrange the order of the effects in a multi-fx setup with small boards like these?
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"Tigerlilly - Some kind of thing that does something" ---> has my name written all over it.

Clifford