I wish I knew this when I was first starting...

[ch1naski]

SIP sockets. Even today I sometimes forget to use them on components that may need tinkering.

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[billstein]

I need to put something on my testing rig like "are all the socket-ed components in? Did you check? Really? Check again. Are they all in?"

Then line 2: Is the cable plugged into the effect AND the guitar? Is the guitars volume up? Is the cable from the guitar plugged into the out jack of the effect?

I swear, almost every build I do something so stupid. I'm wasting a lot of panic over nothing.

[jkokura]

I totally did that with a build last week. One of the recently released designs didn't fire up with my 'rock before box' rig. So I hook it up to my debugging rig, and I begin to go through the circuit with my audio probe. I spent maybe 20 minutes tracing the signal, stopping at this transistor. Again and again.

Flip the board over and look... no tranny in the socket.

Jacob

[gtr2]

yup, I still do the empty socket thing after a lot of building too... 

[jimilee]

yup, I still do the empty socket thing after a lot of building too... 

I was feeling pretty cocky tonight because I remembered the ic's, and forgot to hookup my guitar. Dammit!

[alanp]

I did that with the No Name Flange.

Now THERE is a build where you think "Thank Gawd that THAT was the problem, and not ANYTHING else..."

[mysticaxe]

Did I wire the jacks right?  I've done that a couple times - wire the input jack to the stomp switch output and vice versa...