Dr Boogey incredibly boomy, incredibly low and incredibly clean??

[lazerphea]

Hi all!
Since I cannot proceed in the sanding and drilling of my enclosures due to a tendon damage, in these months I've perfboarded some circuits (DOD280, Orange Squeezer, Barber Silver LTD [yeah, I did it finally! ], Tremulus Lune, Rebote Delay 2.5 and BSIAB2); I was testing yesterday my Dr. Boogey on the breadboard, and the sound is not nearly similar to my expectations. I've adjusted all the trimmers to let the J201 drains get 4.5-5V (except for Q5, which gets fully 9V), all of the five J201 are functioning and measuring their pins voltages confirms that they are ok (I double checked them against different measurements I found in various Dr Boogey debug threads here).

Now, the sound I get is quite low (especially compared to the output of other pedals like the BSIAB2, the Fuzz Face or the Dist+), and very, very muddy, even if I set presence middle and tone to 10 and bass to 0.
Figure it out: if I put the bass pot on 10, my wooden door starts to shake... :\
One other think that seems atypical to me for a Dr. Boogey is that it is very clean, in the sense that it's not noisy at all (gain set to 10): the BSIAB2 is way more noisier...
I start thinking my active EMG pickups could be the problem here, or maybe I did something wrong in the equalization stage... any suggestions?
Bye!

[anchovie]

My guess is that a capacitor going to ground (either wrong value or incorrectly soldered) is dumping all but the low end early on in the circuit. Use an audio probe to check the input and output of each gain stage and identify at what point it starts to sound weird.

[lazerphea]

My guess is that a capacitor going to ground (either wrong value or incorrectly soldered) is dumping all but the low end early on in the circuit. Use an audio probe to check the input and output of each gain stage and identify at what point it starts to sound weird.

Thanks James, as soon as I can I'll check this! Fortunately it's still onmy breadboard, so I can make a fast modification and see what happens!

[lazerphea]

My guess is that a capacitor going to ground (either wrong value or incorrectly soldered) is dumping all but the low end early on in the circuit.

Man, you were right! I put 1uf caps instead of the two 1nf ones... now it sounds great! Thanks a lot!

[anchovie]

Awesome! Glad you got it working!