B.Blender - Quick Question (I hope)

[mpm32]

I am a noob to building pedals but I can follow directions pretty well. I am a bass player and I haven't used effects that much because I didn't like the tone suck. I found the B.Blender and I thought it would be a good pedal that will help alleviate that.

I have made the PCB, populated the board and I am starting to do the off board wiring.  I am following this picture;



I have a question regarding the yellow lead coming from the board pin 2 volume that goes to the switch.

When I wire the volume pot, do I leave pin 2 of the pot unwired? or do I also run a lead from pin 2 of the board to pin 2 of the pot as well?

The layout doesn't have the volume and blend pots shown. I am also going to wire in a 9v and I've changed the In jack to stereo.

Thanks in advance for any help/guidance you can give me.

[MrStab]

from what i grasp, consider Pin 2 (or "Lug") as the "main" output of the pedal, so i'd imagine in this case you would indeed wire it to the switch. otherwise the output just goes nowhere.

volume pots work by the signal going in one side (e.g Lug 3) and the other side (Lug 1) going to ground, so the further down you turn it, the more signal you're "disposing" of to ground. if that makes sense. if you were to omit the pot altogether, and wire the 1st and 2nd pins on the diagram (going left to right), then send the 2nd one out to the switch, it would output at full volume all the time.

i'm an overambitious layman. hope that's some help ^.

[mpm32]

That totally makes sense. I'm going to wire it up and give it a shot.

Thanks,

mark

[MrStab]

good luck! hope it works out.