need help with DR. Boogey!

[DUY1337GUITAR]

well after figuring that I wired the 3PDT the wrong direction (>.<), I began to try biasing by ear.  Not that I had high hopes or anything, I'm planning to buy a multimeter soon, but i don't know if what's happening with my build is going correctly.  While biasing the jFETs, I got signal (kinda low volume) and  I get farty velcro guitar noises anywhere I adjust the trimpot.  There's also a lot of hum which is affected by the trimpots.  Is this normal and that I have to bias everything exactly correct, or is there something wrong  with my perf?  I used Xavier's perf layout but my trimpots took up more space lengthwise so I had to adjust some stuff.  Getting really skeptical about this thing, but I don't want to debug today, been doing too much work. 

thanks in advance!

[bancika]

well it can sound crappy if you set one trimpot very far from the sweet spot. Try setting them all at 30-40% and then adjusting them one by one. In my build they were all between 20k and 40k IIRC

[connie_c]

I seen your perf in your other thread.



Start again would be my advice. That perf will be a nightmare to debug. Wire the trim pots off the board if they wont fit the perf layout or redo the perf layout for the compoments you have.