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Yeah I figured that the resistor was needed. Not sure why I thought it would be okay to omit it. I think I thought it was for eliminating the "pop" when the switch was engaged. Ah well, live and learn. Will rewire properly this time. Heh. Thanks. AWESOME pedal.

Yeah it did sound great either way but I like it even better with the cap corrected. No big deal.

But here's the problem - I just fried my LED by wiring it up wrong. Any hints on how to wire it up correctly? I connected the short leg of the LED to the "SW" lug on the 3PDT switch (per your Poindexter PDF on your page) but then I wired the long leg to the 9V+ connection on the board. It burned it up good. I have a spare LED but how should I wire it so it works properly? I have used the exact same wiring diagram as your Poindexter PDF file, but right now the "SW" lug has the short leg of the LED connected to it, and the long leg is connected to nothing because I don't know where to connect it. Help? Thanks.

Wow, okay well I just built it and it sounds pretty fucking awesome. But I oriented all the electrolytic caps just like the PCB said I should. So I need to unsolder and reverse C11? Great.

I see. Thanks.

Ok, just got my brand new Poindexter PCB in the mail yesterday and I'm populating the board right now... actually I'm done populating but here's the thing-

There is no R26 on the new board. But it is shown on the instructions. Is this a big deal? It's a 4k7 resistor, and I have it, but I'm guessing it was removed from the circuit? Please advise.

There is also no "SW" spot on the board but I think I know how to deal with that, no big deal, but it may be slightly confusing for some to see a slightly different PCB pictured in the wiring diagram. Actually maybe I don't know what to do about this... hmmm....

Thanks guys for the quick replies. That's just what I did and just what I'll do. I just had some doubts in the back of my mind. Thanks for confirming. GREAT pedal! So nice and neat/tidy inside, slick stuff, and sounds great too!

Hey there, I just built a Zombii using some Germanium Fuzz Face transistors from Small Bear... and you know how they include resistors you should use in order to achieve 4.5v reading on Q2 or whatever... well should I be concerned with that when building a Zombii (since the paper says those values are for those building a Fuzz Face)? I noticed the values are close to the stock Zombii values - by that I mean "in the ballpark", and I'm thinking maybe I should use those included resistors? Or maybe I don't need to since there are so many knobs to tweak, I should be able to dial in what I'm looking for anyways right?

I'm kind of a newb and would appreciate some guidance here. I've built maybe 25 pedals, so I do have some experience. I'm just not trained/educated at all, with electronics. All self taught. Thank you.

PS- the pedal sounds awesome. Just curious if I should have used the Small Bear resistors instead of the normal Zombii values.