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Recently built a Cherrybomb using BC109Bs. The pedal somewhat works as in it turns on, but the LED does not work and the volume is quite low. From what I can hear, all the controls work fine. What should my steps be in determining the issue with the build?

Figured it all out! Thanks for everyones help!

These are the best I could do currently. So reflowing the joints made the connection better and it seems like everything that should be connected is connected testing with a multimeter. I haven't been able to check it again to see if it works since I don't have my 9v supply with me currently, but will check later tonight. The pots are connected with the colored wires, the red going to the left lug when the pot and the lugs are facing downwards.

One question I had however was I wasn't sure if I put the IC in correctly. The drawing on the PCB had the bite(?) out of it, but the chip I had didn't and only had a little dimple on top. So I assumed that the little dimple represented pin 1.

Should the connectivity work when touching the solder on the legs of the components? It seems like I have to try different spots with a multimeter on the specific solder spot to get a connectivity. (Sorry I'm fairly new to pedal building) Could that mean its a cold solder joint?

Also I don't if this matters, but I removed the switch and wired the IN and OUT from the board directly to the jacks and still no sound. Then I assume I did something wrong wiring up the board?

Thanks for the help so far. I'll try to upload images of the board ASAP.

So got an Egghead board with my order of the Low Rider and decided to try to build the Egghead first. So I soldered all the components to the board and following the switch wiring from Madbean I wired it up but no sound. I get a bypassed signal, but once I engage the pedal the led doesn't light up and no sound. If I touch some parts of the PCB, I get a faint signal but still no effect. Does anyone know what the problem might be?