Menatone red snapper 3 knob doesn't overdrive

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zulas
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Post by zulas »

Hi, me and friend built 3 menatone red snapper pedals 3 knob version, and all of them doesn't overdrive. The clean sound goes throuth the pedal, volume knob works well. Changed different IC's, but the result are the same. Wheres the problem? The diodes? The pedal built on a vero by this schematic
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XUgC-7dwcCo/T ... 3+knob.png
Here are some pictures of the pedal i've made:
https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/6 ... 55228.jpg/
https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/5 ... 55216.jpg/
https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/1 ... 55203.jpg/
https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/5 ... 55050.jpg/

Could someone help? what to do? why the pedal doesn't overdrive, it works just like a clean boost.

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txomin
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Post by txomin »

Hi, in a first look at your board 1K resistor in not in the right site, put the down leg one hole down ,apoligize for my English

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