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Long story short I narrowed it down to a grounding issue.  I am using the isolated jacks (the style shown in the baby board build guide) and it seems like there was no connection to the chassis ground.  I put an enclosed, but not isolated tayda jack and then the noise went away. 

Now my question is on my other builds with isolated jacks do I need to do anything special for the grounding?  They are all working just fine but now I'm curious.

Thanks for all the help

I have the jacks mounted on the side.  I added a pic.  The blue wire coming off the input jack was my first attempt to reroute a wire - it didn't help.  originally it was a little more direct to the stomp switch.  If anything jumps out at you guys please let me know.  I am going to try and redo some of the wiring once I get some time. 
Thanks very much for all the help - this pedal sounds so good I really hope I can dial out the noise - w/o just breaking down and finding a buffer to throw in front of it. 

Thanks very much. I'll give it a shot!

Thanks for the info.  I would definitely like to try this but I'm a little unsure how to add these to the pcb.  Any idea how I would add these to the current version of the pork barrel?    I appreciate the help.

I built a 2019 pork barrel and I am getting a faint clicking or ticking sound that speeds up and slows with the rate pot.  Its louder in bypass, but its still there when the effect is on - just quieter.   Everything else sounds great on it - I've actually used it for close to a year and only noticed the noise when I removed a klon clone I had in front of it.  When there's a buffer (klon) before the pork barrel - no noise - once I take the buffer out I get noise.  I tried moving the wires around to see if I would notice something with the lead dress - it didn't have any effect. 

Any ideas what I can do to remedy the noise?

 Thanks very much. I'm still a little confused about what to do with r9, 45,46 and 26 (from the posted image) on the current mbp pb board.

Would I need to
1.wire r9 and r45 with lug 3 of the blend pot in place of r9 on the current board?
2.run r46 from lug 1 on blend pot and the other end to the negative on ic1b.
3. Change r26 to 22k

Please excuse my ignorance as I'm not the best with schematics and the differences between the versions are a little confusing.

Thanks again!

Awesome. Thanks! After comparing the different schematics I think I have it narrowed down but if someone could confirm that would be great!

Correct me if I'm wrong please. Would I just replace r9 (mbp schem) with a pot? I'm thinking 50k b maybe. And to be clear I want to be able to blend the vibe/chorus tone in or out - like the vibe switch on the old pork barrel but with a pot so I can vary it more.

Thanks again for all the help

I would like to build a pork barrel chorus but include a blend / mix knob to mix between the chorus and vibe signals similar to what is on the walrus audio Julia and the byoc mega chorus.

Is it possible to do this on the current version of the pork barrel pcb just by swapping out a resistor for a pot?

Any advice would be appreciated!

I built a lavache for my son about 2 years ago and he gave back it to me because it is having power issues.  When powered by a battery everything is good.  When I plug in a 9v adapter (voodoo labs correct polarity etc...) it dies out and no sound comes out, the led goes out as well.  When bypassed it works fine battery or dc power.  I tried replacing the dc jack - no dice.  I pulled the diode and cap that are in line with the 9v on the board - no change either.  I checked all of my grounds and can't figure it out.  My son said the 9v used to work just fine and it just crapped out one day.

Any ideas on what to check?
Kinda stumped

This is all great info. I think the annotated schematic will definitely come in handy.  Thanks very much!  I appreciate the help

Hi
I recently made a mudbunny to green russian specs and I really like the pedal but it can be a bit dark or bass heavy for my taste. Without totally changing it to rams head or triangle specs is there a component or two that I can change to lower the bass?  I was comparing components of the various versions and I'd rather not swap out half of the stuff on the board if I can avoid it since desoldering can be such a headache.  I suppose that I could just crank the tone control but I'm not crazy about the overall sound when it is almost fully cranked.
Any tips?
Thanks very much!

I fixed it.  Turns out I had my pulldown resistor wired incorrectly. 

Hello,
I'm new here but have been reading and planning out projects for quite a while.  Thanks for all the info and awesome projects!

I have a question about a rangmaster that I just built.  I built it on vero board and everythign works great and the pedal sounds excellent, except when I roll my guitar volume down I get a crackling sound while the pot travels.  Is this normal for a range master or is there something I should do to correct it?  The circuit I made is stock except for a switch for 2 input caps and a 1 meg pulldown resistor.

Thanks very much!