They said these instructions were easy that a noob could build. I disagree, and I've got about 8 builds under my belt.
This is the cleanest I've ever done my wiring, usually I have a big mess of spaghetti that I stuff inside. This time I decided I was really going to try to do a nicer job with the wiring. I ran into a problem while soldering the LED to the pin on the switch, I thought the heat lifted the pin out, but I think it just melted the rubber on it.
So I get it done and go to fire it up. Nothing. No LED or sound on bypass. When I wired the LED to the resistor going into the PCB, I ran the bare legs under the jack, but it was floating between the enclosure and jack, I ended up putting folded paper in case it was hitting metal and shorting out. Still didn't work, so than I noticed when I tightened the footswitch and jack, the tip was touching some of the metal on the switch. I moved it away and I got a signal in bypass but still no LED when turned on. So I pulled out the multimeter and checked to see if the LED was getting power. Very low reading, so I checked the pin on the power jack where i had the wires hooked up. Low power too, I also noticed the pin was loose. I checked the other pin and that was reading good, so I just connected to that and plugged it in. LED lit up and the pedal worked.
Pedal sounds like the demos, I find you get more bottom end if you max the volume on it. I didn't play with it too much, but it's not bad for the 30 I spent. I rushed the artwork, it was all on the fly with a paint pen. I really didn't want to spend too much time on it. I may go back and do a starve mod, it's really easy to do. I'll see if I can get some recording done with it and load some clips.
