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["What is one thing that you wish you would have known when you were getting started building pedals?"]

I'm a noob... and I love it. 

Its not always easy being inexperienced, but this board has proven uniquely welcoming and helpful to those of us who are in the beginning stages of learning. This is particularly great given how much experience many of you are bringing to the table. If you experienced folk are willing, I thought it might be cool to create a thread dedicated to the following question:

"What is one thing that you wish you would have known when you were getting started building pedals?"

Thanks for anything you all are willing to share!

Hey all! This is my first build after 4 years of absence and what I thought was going to happen, happened: I ran into some trouble!

Here are the details as they stand.
(1) Project Name:Green Bean
(2) Description of problem: Buzzing, no sound passing, LED was lit after the first press of the switch, but will not light anymore.
(3) What I've Done so Far (Hopefully correctly):
- Double checked wiring
- Double checked part values
- Looked for bad soldering and potential bridged components
- Sobbed deeply into a cup of coffee while cursing my intellect
- Double checked component orientation
(4) Part Substitutions: I used a different IC chip (One of the ones recommended in the build doc), and a few different diodes. I dont have the exact values on me at the moment, but can post them later.

I have attached a few images... hopefully I did that right as well

Thanks for any help you can provide!!!

Hi There!

Funnily enough, this is sort of a re-introduction I suppose? I was actually a member of the forum 4-5 years ago but cant for the life of me remember my username!

Back then I was able to get a few fun builds under my belt thanks to all you wonderful people. I then took an extended break due to grad school and other forms of "adulting." I am super excited to be back and picking back up the soldering iron again. Its been awesome to revisit the board over the last week or so and recognize a lot of key contributors that were around when I first started, as well as so many new people!

I just ordered a Green Bean board which is going to be my first build back. Can't wait to get going!