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I don't know, stinkwhistle made me laugh out loud

Beautiful.  Gorgeous innards.  I love the speckled finish.  What do you use for your labeling?

Hey, I'm from D.C.! NW represent

Very cool.  I worked for Kemp Mill Records, if you remember them.  Many years ago, though.

Started out in the record biz in the DC area, left after it became apparent that I wasn't phony enough.  I have been in IT (name it, I've done it) for the last 20 years.  Just got laid off and I don't want to go back.  I do an inordinate amount of volunteering with school and local theater, teach local kids guitar and am currently looking to get into teaching.  And I have made some actual working pedals!

Okay.  All the IC pins check out except 3 & 5.  3 is supposed to ~3 and it's 4.6 and 5 is supposed to be 4.5 and it's 2.6.  It's like they are reversed. 

I will check the voltages on the IC tonight.  The problem was a solder bridge to ground which is fixed.  It snapped the diode in half.  Believe me, I had a huge headache constantly looking at the board with a magnifying glass.  I replaced the 1N4001 ( I bought 50 of them, figure they'll come in handy) and now that's okay.  We'll see what I get.  Thanks

What does it mean when you turn a distortion on and you get the dry signal?  The volume works and 100% brings it to unity gain, but no effect at all.  I did some initial audio probing without success since the signal is coming through the circuit, just not being "effected" by it.  So I guess my question is how does the unit distort?  Is it the IC or the diode?  And if either or both of those components are dead, can the signal still go through?  Or is it, as I suspect, some other weirdness.  I have burned this unit once already.  Literally, smaoke coming out.  The 4001 diode was toasted and replaced.  Anyway, where would you start looking? 

Thanks

Nice jobs. 

I've caught the bug and planning the next ones already

There's alot of that going around.  I kind of like the Hank Marvin sound, though...

This is fantastic! I love the Shinning scene selection with the name of it...it's perfect! Great job man!
-Kaleb

This one made me laugh!  Nice work again! 
josh

Thank you.  I enjoy that part of it as well.  I usually have 2 or 3 designs ready and my daughter often makes the final decision.  She did on this one.

Beautiful! Where do you get your ribbon cable ?

It's regular old Radio Shack wire.  It comes with a fourth one (white) which I strip off.  I am trying to make my inside work cleaner.  It's not really my forte!  The PCB's are arranged nicely so it's easy to use that wire.

The Shining is an all time classic

Hello

Here is my just completed Serendipity (Zen Drive).  It sounds good.  I figure there's some tweaking to do, but so far so good.  The picture has a large glare on it




And here are the guts.  Sorry about the blurry picture.  I can't seem to get it right


Thanks to everyone who answers my seemingly endless questions!

Keith

Nice job.  I like the switches on the side, too.  Great sounding pedal

I love that finish.  Really outstanding. 

Gorgeous finish.  Great looking innards as well

Thanks. 

And I never use batteries.  I used too many of them over the years before we had all these cool power supplies.