Build Report of my MXR Dist+

[half_smith]

Hey gang, here's a video I made with a build report and demo of my MXR Distortion+ kit from GGG,

It didn't work at first and after checking the solders and values, I started swapping components and using a probe to search for the problem. Eventually discovering I had two resistors transposed (4k7 / 1M) because of a typo in the documents! Dang.
So after a long haul of debugging, and a lot of forum searches and reading, I got the pedal working great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acBVGO1L2HM

[jimilee]

Nicely done, I like it.  That was a very good catch. The only change I made was the distortion pot. Lowered it to about 100k. It doesn't get all the way clean, but with both the volume and the distortion pot at 3:00, it sounds fantastic.


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[half_smith]

thanks Jimilee, yes I think I say at 7:00 that I want to try changing the pot to 100kC (as recommended by Mark Hammer)

[jimilee]

thanks Jimilee, yes I think I say at 7:00 that I want to try changing the pot to 100kC (as recommended by Mark Hammer)

Oh yeah. I just hooked up pots with jumper wires until I found one I liked. My bad.


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[half_smith]

haha no worries, but yeah, I have been meaning to try different pots, thanks for mentioning it 

[jimilee]

haha no worries, but yeah, I have been meaning to try different pots, thanks for mentioning it 

Oh yeah, I remember why I said that. I didn't change anything else, I just changed the pot.  I wanted to try to keep it as close to the original as I could....and I didn't want to mess with changing resistors, just too much work on an etched board.


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[half_smith]

I see. I guess I had already desoldered practically every component in my debut debugging fiasco

[jimilee]

I see. I guess I had already desoldered practically every component in my debut debugging fiasco

I do t blame you, you did a great job with it.


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[Thewintersoldier]

Nice save and good video