Big Muff Pi - dry mix in output

[Meanderthal]

 I'm still thinking some kind of solder bridge or short... I know I said that before, but hear me out- It seems to me the only way you can have full distorted signal when audio probing right up to the last gain stage is that all that stuff is working as it should. So- that leaves a problem in the last gain stage(ok, everyone already reached that conclusion). Now, the problem is- there's no way I ever heard of to clean up a signal as distorted as a BMP gets... there has got to be some kind of short to dry signal somewhere in that gain stage. I can't think of any other way for that to happen. Even a bad  or misoriented tranny wouldn't/couldn't clean it up.

Rolling off bottom end helps? That's puzzling... shouldn't make any difference...

[bdevlin]

True I don't think everything is "right" with this pedal, but when I revisited this with the probe I think that signal levels changes were throwing me off.  The quiter signal of the base in Q4 did not bring out that dry signal like the fully amplified signal of the Collector.

I should make an audio clip so you guys can hear.