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So today I traded a couple of DIY kits for car repair. Didn't think that would ever happen.

Anyone else ever do any strange trades?

Much appreciated! I'm gonna be making some build reports soon too. But let me know if there's anything you'd be interested in seeing.

I actually just finished up a blog post about this very thing.

https://prentisseffects.blogspot.com/2015/01/getting-started-basic-equipment.html

I don't know why it says that it was posted in January though...Still gotta figure that part out.

I know everyone else has already said it but I love the outrageously large knobs.

TC just keeps releasing more and more crazy stuff. As long as the manufacturing hasn't taken a hit, the Behringer purchase seems to be freeing them up a lot to create.

What transistors are you using? Also, can we get a pic to look at for any issues?

What are the values of the caps in your signal path? What schematic are you using?

Is there a particular reason you don't want to use a standard 3pdt?

Maybe the etched board hasn't been verified yet. The vero layout on tagboardeffects has been though if you want to give that a go.

That guy is so smart it pisses me off. 

Seconded. Anyone else get unreasonably excited when he released his schems?

Yes! That makes total sense now.

I was looking at it from the wrong point before and wondering why when the signal reaches the wiper it doesn't look back at the resistance between the first and third lugs and choose the lesser. But now, if I am understanding this correctly, the signal reaches the wiper because it's less resistance than traveling from lug 1 to 3. So there's essentially no current flowing across the resistive portion of the pot where the lugs are connected.

So as you put it

It's not really a loop. It's just an electrical short.

You could instead connect R4 to lug 2 and it would function the same. The reason you see the wiper tied to one of the other lugs is because if the wiper dies, you'll still get signal through the pot. Otherwise, the signal would terminate at the Tone pot and you'd get no (or a very little) output.

And the connection between lugs 1 and 2 is not infinite resistance. It's actually the opposite: zero resistance (or as close as you can get to zero).

So what is happening in that zero resistance loop then? I'm assuming something must go on that causes the signal to flow through the other half of the potentiometer. Is it because the signal is trying to get to ground but will never reach it by going through that loop?

Please feel free to go as technical as you want. I'm trying to bring back some of my circuits knowledge from college that is quite rusty at this point.

Hey guys,

I was looking at Aion Electronic's schematic for the Zendrive and had a questions. I was wondering if there's a reason that we tie lug 1 to the wiper in the tone controls. From what I understand, the signal is looking for the path of least resistance which will always be from the wiper to lug 3 since the path from 1 to 2 is essentially an infinite resistance since it doesn't go anywhere. Is there a reason we tie lug 1 to 2 instead of leaving lug 1 floating in these types of circuits? I noticed that the gain pot has a similar thing going on too.