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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjosUR0OmvE

Nowhere near as fancy as any of your pedalboards but here is my humble little board I just threw together in just under an hour out of an old plank of wood I found in the basement.



It goes from right to left:
Tuner, demo tape fuzz, GCFX Catch 22, Stomptown Pennyroyal Chorus, Line 6 Echo Park

The demo tape fuzz is my own layout with optical bypass on the PCB, I'll do a build a report at some point.

The board is for a gig tonight, I've been engineering for my friends band and he needs a guitarist for tonight.  Its going to be my first gig in a year, I best get learning the songs. Wish me luck!

Cheers,
Marcus

Isn't the Echo Park, and all the Tone Core stuff, great?

Oh man.  I love Peter's stuff. 

I've tinkered with the gain and other trim pots and the wah doesn't work.
The trem works like a charm.
Sustitutions:
R5 = 3.9M
IC4 = CD4017BE

Voltages taken in by pass mode.

Voltages
IC1
1: 4.6v
2: 4.6v
3: 4.6v
4: 0
5: 4.6v
6: 4.6v
7: 4.6v
8: 9.2v

IC2
1: 4.6v
2: 4.6v
3: 4.6v
4: 0
5: 4.6v
6: 4.6v
7: 4.6v
8: 9.2v

IC3
1: 8.7v
2: bounces around
3: bounces around
4: 8.7v
5:  bounces around
6: bounces around
7: bounces around
8: 0v

IC4
1: 0v
2: 0v
3: 6v
4: 0v
5: 0v
6: 0v
7: 0v
8: 0v
9: 0v
10: 0v
11: 0v
12: 8.7v
13: 0
14: bounces around
15: 8.2v
16: 8.7v

Regulator:
O: 9.2
G: 0
I: 8.7

Q1
C: 0v ()
B: 1v
E: 4.4v

Q2
D: 8v
S: 7.5v
G: 0


Vac1
LED +: 3.4v
LED -: 1.7v
Across from LED +: 4.6v
Across from LED -:  4.6v

Vac2
LED +: 3.4v
LED -:  1.5v
Across from LED +: 0v
Across from LED -:  0v

Does anybody have any ideas on what's wrong?

I second blue tak. You can get it pretty much anywhere.
https://store.schoolspecialty.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?minisite=10206&item=3376963&gclid=CO-o_d-Iv9ACFRVrfgodZV8GTA

I don't even bother bending my leads on the other side of a PCB any more. 
I press the blue tak to cover an enclosure base plate.
I put all the component in them there holes.
Then I press the base plate against the top of the pcb to keep everything in place.
Then flip it all over and solder with all the leads pointed straight up.   

Boards are in! But guess what: I'm on a vacation coming week, so soldering time starts first week of December...




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If you have any of those laying around when you're done I'll be glad to take them off your hands.

Does the LED work when the circuit is out of the box?
If so, then one of the LED leads is probably grounding on something while it's in the box.

If you are really wondering why Trump won, this book is an excellent primer on the divide between what is portrayed on media meant to make money on advertisements to select populations and what all the flyover states have been going through for the past 30 years.

https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Their-Own-Land-Mourning/dp/1620972255

total control of the house being republican also.

This is what I think people need to be worried about more than the Executive. 
The President can't do much, and can do hardly anything that endures, without the support of the Legislature.

As someone who works in the defense industry and is very familiar with clearance requirements, the idea that mishandling classified info automatically lands you in jail is entirely untrue.  Classified materials are frequently mishandled at all levels of the government.  They are frequently not stored, couriered, handled, disseminated, etc. in by the proper maner and this does not land you in jail automatically.  Statements like that are painting with a really broad brush and are very misleading.  The focus on investigations related to mishandling of classified information is on malicious intent and severity of consequence if the information is allowed to get "out" which is why there are different security levels for different information.  Anyway, I'm not justifying what was done or disagreeing with whether or not similar behavior from someone else would necessarily land them in jail.  That's stance speculation and nothing more.  I am just pointing this out so folks unfamiliar with the topic do not come away with the wrong impression.

I agree with what you are saying and I'm not going to get into all the nitty gritty about clearances etc, but it doesn't make a CI agents job any easier when the Secretary of State does what she did.  In fact, it makes it much more unnecessarily difficult when somebody being investigates says, "Well, The Secretary of State did it on a much larger scale than repeatedly forgetting to get her courier orders renewed."  Remember, it is her direct impact on my life that caused me to go the other way, not the conceptual.

I can only address one of many factors regarding the results.

I am beholden to the same clearance and rights, although not read on to all programs, as Bradley, Snowden, and Clinton. (And thousands of other people in the Intelligence Community.)
Regardless of position in the military, State Department, Department of Energy, any department of the government you have to swear by, sign, and confirm your capability in the handling, storage, and transmission of classified information once you are provided with the clearance, access, and need to know of that information.

Bradley is in prison for intentionally releasing classified information. I'm cool with that.
Snowden is in exile for intentionally releasing classified information.  I'm cool with that.
I can name dozens of others in the same position as those two and I am cool with that. Not because i don't think it's fucked up, because in some cases it is, but because those individuals knew before they ever set eyes on the information that the intentional or unintentional release of classified information would get them shit canned.

I would go to jail for the intentional or unintentional release of the same information that Clinton did. 
I would go to jail if I kept classified information in my car, or my house, or my barn, or my laptop.
The senior intelligence officer for the Department of Defense would be fired, removed from service, and lucky if they did the same thing and not end up in jail.
GEN Petraeus was one of the best combatant commanders we've had in decades and he was raked over the coals and drummed out of the Army for releasing material to a person who did have clearance but not a confirmed need to know.

Clinton breaks the rules, meh, whatever.
She knew exactly what laws she was breaking.  If she didn't, then she isn't competent enough to hold the honor of President.
She did it anyway.  Regardless of personality and general shit-headedness of any competitor she went up against, I could not stand to cast my ballot for a person who falls under the same rules as everyone else but blatently disregards them because she thinks her position is more important.
Once the classified email scandal hit, Clinton lost the vote of millions of people with security clearances.

If she can't behave and act under the rules as Secretary of State, the real number 2 under the President, then she won't behave as President.
Things Clinton has done as Secretary of State have directly impacted me.  Whether it was behavior with rules listed above or other actions as Secretary of State.  My decision to go against her was not one of conceptual or principled thought.  It was result of very direct impact to my individual life because of her decisions.

Trump, while apparently not a nice guy, has done nothing to directly harm me or any actual individual I know.

Man, i haven't built in months. Maybe longer.  I've been focusing on getting a few albums out.  Now that I'm done with the third one in two yeasrs (one is unreleased garbage) I'm back into building.

To get my ass back in gear there is a new bar opening in town this weekend.  A few of the band playing are my buddies.  So, I'm gonna make a pedal basket grab-bag for them to take from.

I like the weed whacker idea and the rubber band idea from over at talk bass.

Even further than this.
Here's my idea.

I want a maple neck with a removable fingerboard.
The reason the finger board needs to be removable is because I want multiple fingerboards that fit into the same guitar neck.

For instance I may be playing on a next with extra jumbo frets, but I want to switch to a neck with mandolin wide frets. Just swap out the fret board and there you go.
This will also expand into alternate fret materials.  I would like to have a fret board with pine frets, another with mahogany frets, and another with ebony frets.
Maybe have a fretboard I can slap on the neck that has delrin frets, and one with brass frets.

I need a special neck made with a selection of interchangeable fret boards.
Can you do anything about this?

Maybe some sort of tray system or easy bolt on fretboard system that with a few bolts you can change out the whole fretboard.

I like a very soft sound, almost fretless but not quite.
Frets just sound, so, fretty and twangy. Too much clickity-clack when playing aggressive. Too much attack when playing soft.
I hate that, but I also don't like the sound of straight fretless. Fretless is too slow and I can't do as much string manipulation without frets.

So here's my striking now. Highs rolled all the way out. Mids rolled way down. Finger striking the strings. Nickle strings. Taped frets.
Yes, I've begin taping over my frets. I have two layers of black electrical tape covering every fret.
It's working pretty well. It's kind of a pain in the ass to do and redo when the tape starts wearing away.

Has anybody ever heard of a hard rubberized or nylon/polyester/other fretting system?
(If not I got dibs on naming it.)

Oh yeah.   We bassists havebeen screaming at "DigitechRep" over at Talkbass for years about this and the bass whammy.  They've really come through for us lately.