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well i have been days trying make my quasar( bass band mate) but i could get it, instead of boosting it was eating the signal, at max volumen even below unity volumen was coming out of the pedal, the strange part to me was that the gain knob really did nothing, so that was my first clue, i post on the tech help but no one said anything so today start making something and when i was chicking the schematic i saw that on the op amp in the clipping there its a cap(C3) and on the build doc was 150pf but on bass mod version it was replaced by 47nf, i thought that caps it too big for going there, so it almost eat all the signal, then replace it for a 100pf cap, and that was the big deal, lots and lots of volume boosting and gain, so i think that instead of 47nf should be 47pf or max 470pf, not so sure, but i saw that the bigger the capp in there the more bass on the output, so 470pf should be good or not??

bump, still have not figure out what the problem, and i ran out of ideas

hi all, its me again with my problems, this time its not popng issues, i just build a bass RC from the quasar, the pedals has very low volumen even below unity on max gain and volume, i have change op amps an even tried other types of op amps,volumen knobs works fine(cancel volumen at minimun) treble and bass are just fine, but drive sound the same on min than max, voltages on IC are normal, could be bad transistor in buffer??


so i have readings and photos.

IC
1 4.5v
2 4.5v
3 4.5v
4 0v
5 9v
6 4.5v
7 4.5v
8 4.5v
9 4.5v

loves those leds so amazing

I have the single voltage Eastwood.  I like it.  If I bought another one it would be the dual voltage. I like the ability to buy extra canisters for different powder colors. I can't say anything about the Chicago as I never have used it.  If you do get the Eastwood, I would convert the trigger to a stomp switch.

i think esatwood its winning, hahaha everything must be modded yes or yes jajaja

The new Laserwolf boards have all shipped and the project doc has been updated for this run.
http://www.madbeanpedals.com/projects/Laserwolf/Laserwolf_2015.pdf

There are no significant changes other than fixing the couple of mistakes that were on the proto boards.

Brian did you hold mine until the zero point??

Cesar - sorry, I forgot. My little brain is a capacity right now.
But the SPDX2 proto boards will ship free I've decided so no worries on that. I actually just got them in and I am building one up right now to verify!

nevermind just remember to send the afterlife too i think i paid that with the laserwolfim just counting days till arrived

The new Laserwolf boards have all shipped and the project doc has been updated for this run.
http://www.madbeanpedals.com/projects/Laserwolf/Laserwolf_2015.pdf

There are no significant changes other than fixing the couple of mistakes that were on the proto boards.

Brian did you hold mine until the zero point??

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When i take reading of DC i get no amp plug just power and no other pedal in not so sure yet and i know the SHO also mande me impossible to take that pop out

hi all i have a rescue, its a DOD fx54 compressor distortions, i see it have a CA3080 so it must be an ota comp, maybe a ross, i have found the sch but im not so sure apart of the input cap what to change to make it a bass compressor and distortion

Measure the inputs and outputs with and without the switch thrown. Do you have DC there? The output cap is an electrolytic, those can be very leaky.

already change capas for better quality and also now i have all non electros caps, also i have a lot of  DC on the input and output, about 100mv on input and about 50mv on output

That's the problem for sure. The question is why is it there?
How about your ground....are you reading a true 0v (or at least not more than a couple mV)?

just checked and ground its 0.00mv,inputs even on bypass are 50mv or more

Possibly you have a leaky cap in C1.
What I would try: socket C1. Try another 1n there. If it still pops try a 10n. If it still pops try removing R1 or replacing it with 1M.

already did, proble its there still, change C1 to 10nf and nothing happens

Measure the inputs and outputs with and without the switch thrown. Do you have DC there? The output cap is an electrolytic, those can be very leaky.

already change capas for better quality and also now i have all non electros caps, also i have a lot of  DC on the input and output, about 100mv on input and about 50mv on output

Hi all i got an afterlife popping so hard no even optical bypass stop that from pops do have any idea where i should look??? Got all elrctros nichicon audio grade caps dioses are fine all xicon 1% resitors.... Still pops so hard that its useless

i have one of this and i was going to make a build report, but  build a bass one, change the values on the build doc,  but i see that there its no volumen boost(at least not in my guitar) there its almost bass freq boosting, but no volumen, vol stay at unity its that normal??