Fuzzdog Phase 90 Clone - Ticking noise

Started by bettsaj, August 16, 2019, 01:17:21 PM

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bettsaj

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willienillie

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Rob Strand

Quotedoes it matter if its a polarised cap?
Polarized is fine (in fact what you need).

For any values over 1uF most of the time people mean polarized caps *unless* it's obvious from the context like when replacing a cap which was non-polarized.
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Elijah-Baley

Did you solve the issue?
I built my second Phase 90 using veroboard from TagBoard. My first one sounds good (except I had keep the Script mode, because with in Modern mode I got too much distortion and I had set he trimmer fro a good sweep. I don't have it, now.)
This second build, still out of the box, works perfectly in both the modes, but I hear ticking at high volume in the clean channel, and a louder ticking using gain channels of my amp. Again, a bit louder with humbucker.
Actually, there's no ticking if I use a distortion pedal in front of the phase 90, even if I use distortion + Phase 90 in the gain channels.
I tried to replace the 470k resistor of the LFO IC (from pin 5 to pin 7 in TagBoard layout) with a 1M how I read someshere, and then with a 2M. The trick tame the ticking, indeed. But I lost intensity of the effect.
Replacing the TL072 with a TL062 doesn't change anything.
Should I try to cut the 9v link of the LFO opamp and filter the power with a 100R in line and a 47-100uF across the ground?
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