Bass Paralooper problems.

[Jamforthelamb]

Hey Everyone,
A ways back a built the Bass Paralooper project from Moosapotamus' website for a bass playing friend.
I built it using this layout: http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/main.php/v/bcreekmur/paralooper.jpg.html
Everything seemed fine once I finished, so I told him it was ready to go. While showing him how it worked we noticed two problems with it.

#1 when the effect is switched on there is a "charge up" effect. Basically what it does is the sound is fuzzy and distorted for about 5 seconds, and then it cleans up and functions normally.

#2 there is distortion on the signal pretty much all the time. It's light most of the time, but the harder you play the worse it gets. I read in this thread about replacing the 1uf caps with .047 http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=50701.0. If I were to do that would I replace all of the 1uf caps, or just certain ones ? My build has 4 of them.

Just as an added note I'm running the pedal off of a 1spot power supply because there wasn't enough room for a battery inside.

Thanks!
-jftl

[moosapotamus]

I'd suggest replacing all four of the 1uF with 0.047uF. That should help with the distortion issue. I don't know about the "charge up" effect, but it might help with that, too.

~ Charlie

[Jamforthelamb]

Hi Charlie,
Cool, I'll pick some up at lunch. I'm hoping it will take care of the other problem as well. Maybe I'll take a sample clip of it if it doesn't so everyone can hear what it's doing.

Thanks!
-jftl