Lovepedal Woodrow - help with 1 thing

[jplebre]

Hey all

@Vendetta I will be going for the bass fuzz next but when you told me about it I was already putting the pieces on the board for this

Was giving a go at lovepedal woodrow from Renegadrian - http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/main.php/v/Renegadrian/Lovepedal+Woodrow.gif.html
Just one question... is the output connected from the wiper? if so, is pin 1 supposed to go to ground?

Cheers
J

[vendettav]

hey, when i saw the thread i was like "this is gonna be him "

ima be putting this up together sometimes soon as well, see how it sounds with my current setup, anyways to answer your question, yeah the middle lug goes to the output (the bypass switch if you have any) and lug 1 goes to the ground
g'luck with the build

[jplebre]

Right....

so it means... it's not working...

arrghhh
(just put it on a pedal with alligator clips that i have made just to test PCB in a pedalish environment :S

stupid voltages as well 0.6v on collector hmmm

[jplebre]

maybe cause I used a 2n2222 been trying to find which tranny should i be using seems a 2n5088

[vendettav]

make sure you watch the correct pinout.
i cant's see how you could get 0.6v on the collector. check your bias resistor's value may be?

[jplebre]

true it did sound weird.

I got a bit fustrated with it so I've put it to the side whilst puting the NPN on an enclosure
Will grab it again this week-end.

Other thing I was thinking I've put a 1M resistor to ground at the input because of the pops. Maybe this was the cause?
Any links or places talking about this "technique"? when can be used, when not, what is actually doing, etc?

[vendettav]

that 1M has to be at the very beginning Before te input cap and at teh very end after the output cap. you can have only one in the beginning but ive never done it so idk if it'll still make it not pop. however this is not the issues. it's got nothing to do with it.
I guess you either messed up the pinout (which is not that likely cause 0.6 v is tooo weird) either put a wrong resistor. either jsut have something shorted to teh ground. i bet the shortage cause the C strip is next to the ground strip so... probably look for bad solders that float over the other strips there (the Collector strip)