Burned transistor on a green ringer or what?

[dantahoua]

Hello!
I just made a newbies project (but it is not my first project), a Green Ringer. After plugging it, I saw that there was a little shortcut when I plug the jack, so the effect do not work. So I removed the problem. But now when I start the effect, the sound is distorded (and I can ear very far the effect). It's like a big "Krrrrrrrrrrrrrr" when I play on the guitar. The more stronger I play the guitar the more it distord. Could it be one of the transistor burned?  I double checked everything, connexion, soldering, input voltage, bypass... But I don't know how to check the transistor (2N5088 x2 and one 2N3906). I read too that sometimes distortion can occur with non biased transistor... This is the tonepad green ringer.
Thanks for helping.

[R.G.]

Read "Debugging: What to do when it doesn't work" and follow the directions.

[dantahoua]

I'll do it tomorrow when I'm home. Thanks.

[dantahoua]

So finaly, it seems that this is the sound of the green ringer . I tried it with another guitar, neck pu, and it works as it should... I think I has too much expectation!!! (I expected it to sound like a whammy set on octave up with some glitch...). Sorry for all of that. You could delete my post if you want. Anyway, I'll have to debug a Ultimate loaded Phaser, so I'll follow the rules! Thanks a lot!