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Hey guys;

I've been using the Glitchee for a while now and purely loving it. Today a friend came by and noticed something I hadn't noticed so far:

The Low and Sub (specially the second) tend disappear when the input signal is not strong enough. When playing more softly and using the octaves in more pronounced settings this becomes a true issue. Using a booster before Glitchee's Input improves this significantly. I don't understand well how the CD4024 works but I was wondering if there's a way to increase the signal being sent to the octave part of the circuit. Maybe lowering R5 would do the trick?

I mean, the pedal is absolutely fantastic, my favorite among all the 80+ pedals I've built so far in my lifetime. If I could calibrate the input sensitivity to the octave part of the circuit it'd be perfect for pick-less soft players like myself :))

Hey Guys, I saw a post suggesting to lower R18 to 8.2K or 6.8K in the Sparklehorn  in order to achieve more wet signal at the mix knob. Is there any way to install a kill dry switch?  Maybe bypassing R18 would do so?

Hey guys, I had the wonderful opportunity to A/B the Karate Shop (mine is from 2015) with an original vintage Systech Harmonic Energizer and was amazed to notice how similar the EQ works on both of them.

The gain however sounded a lot different. Original Harmonic Energizer had a much wider gain range (from as subtle as Karate Shop at low gain up to a distortion/Fuzz like tone. The KS almost doesn't distort while the HE gets a smooth saturation about mid day that sounded beautiful. At maximum gain it had a beautiful fuzzy sound

Is there any way to make the gain higher on the Karate Shop? I was thinking I could compare both schematics and work out a solution but that looked risky as the original Harmonic Energizer seems to use a TIS97 Transistor which I assume to be an extinct component. Any Ideas on that?

Kind Regards,

Felipe

Hi Guys, It's been a long time since I put my pedal builds on hold. Recently I resumed and finished successfully many madbean pedals. However,  I'm not being able to make my Zero Point Mini work. ICs and voltage regulator are reading the same value as listed by here in another post by Madbean.  It's not like the pedal is not working at all. The time pot makes that usual glitchy sound it does make normally when rotated while sound is coming through and I get very few muddy repeats when all setings are at max but when I lower the feedback I get no repeats at all. Rate potentiometer the switches mod and ring don't affect the sound at all.

I soldered pins 3 and 4 of PT2399 together as suggested here at the forum and nothing changed either. I checked all eletrolytic and the one tantalum capacitor orientation and all is right. Also swapped the PT2399 with the one in my sparklehorn which was working perfectly and got the same sound

I also checked that all potentiometers are placed correctly with the correct corresponding values and also checked that my PCB hasn't got the issue that some were reported to have concerning the pin 7 and 8 unintentional connection due to PCB manufacturing problem

Any idea about what might be going on? I don't know what else to try.

Thanks a lot, Felipe