Stratoblaster misbehaving

[cheeb]

I built a Stratoblaster from GGG and it works, but the board has to be component side up, and it doesn't fit that way. It'll cut on and ff as you turn it over and over. There is also no change in the sound in the first 3/4 of the 100k pot and then a gargantuan change in the last part of the rotation. I'm dumb.

[Pushtone]

I built a Stratoblaster from GGG and it works, but the board has to be component side up, and it doesn't fit that way. It'll cut on and ff as you turn it over and over. There is also no change in the sound in the first 3/4 of the 100k pot and then a gargantuan change in the last part of the rotation. I'm dumb.

About the response of the volume pot. Thats how mine came out too.

I think the original design used a toggle switch to turn it on at unity gain.
It was intended to be an on-board preamp in a guitar body cavity and drive the cable.
THe pot was added to make it a "stompbox".

I think it sounds great as a unity gain buffer of sorts.
Very full range, good low mids. Clean, no distorion added.

I swapped out the 100K pot for a 100k resistor and made it part of the bypass path of my Fetzer Valve boost.
There is a post here about fiddleing with a few components to get more response out of the pot.
But you have to search with three or four different spellings of Stat-o-Blaster and Amblic (did I spell that righ?, Amblic?)

First find that loose solder joint!