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Curious what did you use for the LDR cover?

I'm building a Glasshole project and though it might fun to use Mil-Max sockets for the LDR LED so I could swap different color LED's. The LED obviously sits a little higher. I'm building a custom enclosure so not concerned about it fitting just wanted some advice for a light shield.

Thanks for helping me get to the bottom of it. It's what I was suspecting as well. I do prefer the tone with the octave engaged as well. Onto making a custom enclosure tomorrow. Giving this as a Christmas gift to my brother. I think he'll enjoy it.


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Ok I accidentally destroyed one pulling a leg out. So I swapped them both with good tested ones. The tone still feels about the same. Perhaps I'm hearing a low end boost from the lower octave making the non octave switched setting to appear thin.


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Got it. They are GE's from a crystal radio vendor. I pulled one leg off each. They both only conducted in one direction and measured 341 & 388 ohm's respectively.


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Yea perhaps not the best example. Would mismatched 1n34a's cause the tone to drop bass?


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So I touched up solder joints and re-checked voltages which all seem good. Still noticing a thinner tone unless the octave switch is engaged. Not sure if this is helpful but just recorded an iPhone video of what I'm hearing. https://www.dropbox.com/s/02jli7zowxfzb3a/IMG_0353.MOV?dl=0

Thanks jimmilee I planned to hit those joints again. You know I actually do not think I checked the diodes with my meter. Probably got lazy after checking the resistors. Can I check them in circuit or do I need to pull them out?


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Thanks, but how do I do that?

Well they were new caps.


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The octave switch it temp as its a On-Off-On, so its just pigtailed in. I'm waiting for the On/On to come in the mail.

checked voltages at Q1-Q2-Q3 all seem really close to instructions. Checked for bad solder joints, all seem solid.

Just finished building a retrograde and noticing the bottom end really disappears until I switch the octave down. Regardless of settings the tone gets very thinned out unless I switch the octave down.

Solved this with a swap of the Vol pot. I originally had a linear pot as that was what the build called for. I swapped it for a LOG 100K and it feel much better.

Trying to get back to this. Any insight?


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