green ringer is ticking

[Harry Muff]

making myself a green ringer and its ticking on the one spot and on a battery. i made two of them today and both are ticking but they sound great lol other than the ticking noise. nothing else here is ticking just those, what the hell is going on

[PRR]

Is it in a metal box? Don't judge an audio circuit's crap while it is naked. It needs clothes (shielding).

Turn off your cellphone. Lights. Thermostat. The Ringer can't tick. The 1Spot is probably dead-clean, and the battery surely is. So it has to be some nearby ticky thing leaking in.

[Harry Muff]

the first one was all boxes up and thats when the motorboating noise started. seems to be on the gain channel and when im not playing then the sound comes in.  so I made a new one and its now doing it. amp and one spot only thing on in house on , on same power, and still has a motorboating sound. if I unplug the effect and click it on the motorboat noise starts up again . tried several switches just in case. everything is grounded. the first one I can say was shielded for sure; if I cant get it I will just have to buy one from somebody. no other pedal is making the same noise on the same set up, only the two ringers. I was googling and found this is clock noise but the ringer just has 3 transistors on it. the two ringers I made sound fantastic though other than the motorboating noise . i used to own a ehx phaser that made a similar noise but more of a tick than a motor sound. thanks prr for the reply!

googling also brought up a bad cap , so I changed all caps out on it and still ..this is truly weird ..looks like I will just have to buy one as im out of parts to make another one

[bluebunny]

What's the frequency of the tick?

Our lefty guitarist wears a watch on his right hand.  But he plays righty.  So the watch is close to the guitar pickups when he plays.  Watch comes through loud and clear.  (Took a while to track that one down!)

[duck_arse]

can we see photos of what you've built, and the layouts you built to, and the circuit diagrams. you may have a cap backwards, maybe even a transistor.

some problems just take time to sort, eh, blue?