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  • #30919
    Anonymous
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    Hey all. New to electronics and pedal building and I’m working on my first build so forgive me if this is a dumb question. I’m attempting to recreate this non-commercially available pedal that I found floating around online that essentially takes an EMG preamp/eq set and puts them in a housing so any guitar can be run through it. I’ve got all my parts and I believe I understand everything that going on in the picture here except for one thing. I’ve searched all over at similar schematics and can’t seem to find any answer. Pictured here, theres a resistor being used as the jumper on the foot switch. I can’t figure out what it’s for or what the value may be as all the other builds I’ve looked at just use a piece of wire as the jumper. I thought it might be for the LED but that appears to be on the positive side of the LED between it and the power jack. Any ideas here? Appreciate any insight you guys can provide.

    #30924
    Playsforfun
    Moderator

    It’s probably a 0 ohms resistor, and yes, it is being used as a jumper. One reason to use them is prototyping and using these instead of copper wires. Easier to remove and resolder than wires and cheaper in the long run. Can also help with interference noises. Any wire in there could have been one. Other, more complicated, reasons exist for their use. Pretty dry reading.

    #30930
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Ok I gotcha. I don’t have a 0 ohm resistor on hand but I am waiting for 1 more part anyway. Seems like I might as well just pick up a pack of assorted resistors from Amazon. 50 value,  0-5.6M ohm 1/4 watt metal film resistors make sense for pedal applications?

    #30942
    Playsforfun
    Moderator

    Yeah, I think so. That’s what I did and some of those still get me out of trouble sometimes.

    #30945
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Great man, thanks so much for the help!

    #31039
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Well I’ve got it built and the tone controls seem to work but I’m getting really bad hum (I’m assuming ground noise?) even when the circuit is off and then I get a high pitched noise on top when the circuit is switched on. Any thought?

    #31045
    Barry
    Keymaster

    Looks like you have a solder bridge going on here:

    The only other suggestion I have would be to use your DMM in continuity mode and test for common grounding to everything.

    #31046
    Anonymous
    Guest

    That is on purpose to keep those points grounded out in both switch positions. Should it not be that way?

    I figured out the hum/ground noise was coming from my soldering iron being plugged in on the same power strip as the power supply for the pedal. Still not sure the source of the high pitched noise though.

     

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