Current Lover low volume

[Rustez]

I'm building a Current Lover and am testing it after soldering everything. The volume level drops pretty severely when engaged. I have the volume trim is maxed. I am getting a very pleasant sounding effect out of it if I turn up the amp. When I biased the other trims I cannot get it to click or get noisy even at the most extreme settings and the feedback controles make very subtle changes to the sound. I checked the voltages and the ones that are off are pin 7 at IC5 =0, and pin 12=0 and pin 13=9 at IC 4. Im teally strugeling to find wich components are associated with those pins. (Im still learning) any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[Rustez]

This is just one side. I' testing to see if I can upload this pic. Had trouble thebfirst time.

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[Rustez]

Woo hoo! I found the problem. I'm an idiot and put a 1uf cap in c3 instead of the 1n. Swapped it for right cap and all is well. This thing sounds amazing, cant wait to box it up!

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[gordo]

Nice recovery. Always feel great when it's something simple to fix and you nail it. That first lighting it up when it works is a rush.

[alanp]

Glad to hear you got it sorted

In future, though, I'd advise using IC sockets.

[zgrav]

"In future, though, I'd advise using IC sockets."

Unless space is an issue on a crowded board, I usually use sockets for ICs.  Easier to swap out if you want to try a functionally-equivalent-but-not-identical chip, or if you just want to swap in a sub when troubleshooting to see if the problem is in the IC.  Of course a pedal that takes a lot of abuse could have ICs that are in sockets work themselves loose over time, and that could be a problem if it failed during a performance.

And I think if you were making a pedal for someone else you might prefer soldering the ICs in place to provide that extra durability.