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nvm, it came up in an old-fashioned google search lol. Might be worth adding to the Archives page though

I built the Man O War analog delay a few years back. I was looking for the build doc but see the board is no longer offered for sale on madbeanpedals.com

Can I possibly get access to the Man O War build doc? it's not on the Archives page, I checked

I built the Glasshole and while it functions overall the waveform of the LFO is not smooth. The phasing is "bunched up" in one area of the cycle rather than smoothly ramping up and down.

For example, when I set the rate very low so the cycle is about 10 seconds, D2 only lights for 1-2 seconds of the cycle, quickly ramping up and back down to nothing. Shouldn't it be very slowly getting brighter/dimmer when the rate is low?

I've played with the trimmers a bunch but they can't fix the issue of the lop-sided LFO. Any ideas?

I ordered the Glasshole but didn't see that it's made to utilize the SSBP bypass board.

I'm guessing I can just manually wire my stomp switch for true bypass and use the Send/Return as Board In/Board Out.

But there is no bypass LED on the main board, so what is the "LED" connection point for by the stomp switch, is that just 9V?

I guess I'll try removing the regulator and running at 12V. Although that's a bit annoying, as one of the reasons I chose the project is that I had a free 18V output, and I liked the idea of running the same voltage as the original Mistress.

Maybe it got lost in the shuffle, but the noise issue goes away when I run it without other pedals (but still using the OneSpot). So I'm confused why 18V would be the source of the problem.

Does your amp have an effects loop?

No it does not. Mojotone Blackout Tweed (5E3 style amp)

Question... in your video you posted, is your mistress after an analog delay?

It was brought to my attention by @blackhatboojum that the pedal is behind a man O war delay and the mistress does not play well behind other clocks. Have you ran this isolated with nothing in front of it, mine is dead quiet.

Correct, in the video, it was after the Man O War. I previously tried it several places on the board including the very beginning, with the same result. BTW I'm using a OneSpot CS12 supply and the CurrentLover has its own isolated power (as do all my delay/modulations).

HOWEVER I had not tried it all alone yet for some reason... guitar->CurrentLover->amp, the ticking does go away! There is a mild hiss that swells and recedes with the LFO, is that normal?

So that tells me the pedal might be working fine, my board is the issue. But if I can't put the CL anywhere on the board without issues, it's unusable.

Any tips for the board? As I said, I'm using an isolated supply, and only a few drives are daisy-chained. No noise issues at all except with the CL

Thanks for replying. The wires' proximity doesn't seem to matter actually, I move them around and nothing changes. So I'm skeptical shielding will help. I can try un-grounding one of the jacks

Is there any noise in the matrix mode?

No, matrix mode does not have any artifacts

That is weird.  If you move the output to a longer wire that runs around the outside of the board does that improve the noise.  I'm wondering if the wire is picking up noise from the BBD.

I lengthened the wire so it goes completely to the left and around the board...no change

Happens at all Feedback settings. Here are some pics of the board, as well as a short video with audio so you can hear the artifacts.

*Clock trimmer was replaced with 30k, not 100k as stated above

https://imgur.com/a/CEp1sTB

https://imgur.com/a/fVhMKfR

Anyone have any ideas what could cause this issue, please let me know. For now I fear this one is destined for the junk pile. Checked all my components, soldering looks good...no idea what's wrong. Dang.

good catch. In cases where something like this happens ( and it happens to everyone) I always go with what the schematic says. On there it says 100R so it's more than likely that.

Thanks! that makes sense. I went ahead and changed R20 to 100R but it made no obvious difference. Still can't get rid of the chirps

Thanks for the response. Real quick, I did find another discrepancy; R20 is 470R in the table, but labeled 100R on the page 3 board graphic. (I've got 470R there currently)

For Clock, I replaced the 10k trimmer with 100k, it's what I had.

However the artifacts still won't go away, they just speed up in tempo as I turn the trimmer, but never disappear.