do i have a short in this situation? weird grounding issue...

[caress]

do you think there's a short here?  i'm building a fuzz face variant and when i can't seem to get the volume fully attenuated.  even when i connect ground directly to the input i still hear a little tiny bit of sound...  is this normal?  i've double checked all of my soldering and gone through and touched everythng up - it all looks ok to me...

oh yeah, it's negative ground NPN with NPN transistors, FYI.

[asfastasdark]

A potentiometer is a resistor, not a complete switch. Meaning that a tiny bit of signal is always going to come out, because there will be a huge resistance to the output, and a tiny resistance to ground, but still a bit of signal will run through the huge resistance because it's simply a resistor, it's still connected. To completely kill all the sound, you'd have to actually completely disconnect the connection from lug 2, for example through a switch. Though maybe you can use the output to use a transistor to switch on and off, I don't know, try to come up with something.

[caress]

well, in the end i figured it out... it was something pretty dumb.  sorry about another topic thrown up in haste... 

forgot to add that it was connected to another portion of the circuit which was supposed to be grounded but also was missing a ground connection.  brain fart...