Maybe, maybe not… I fixed the two problems I found last night on my breadboard layout, soldered some jacks and some pots and plugged it in. The good news is there was sound going through the amp, sound that was somewhat different from the sound of a guitar plugged straight in. The bad news is that I’m not sure if it’s actually compressing or not.
The great thing about the Orange Squeezer was that its effects were quit transparent. It did its thing without altering your sound much. In hindsight, perhaps this wasn’t the best type of pedal to start with… If I had tried a distortion, delay, phaser, chorus, etc… I would have immediately noticed whether it was working or not.
On the bright side I’ve got access to an oscilloscope so I’ll be able to see what it’s actually doing to the input signal. I think that will help me out. If it’s all good and everything is as it should be, I’ll still have to make the mods to the soldered board but as I found out today, they’re not going to be as dramatic as I’d feared.
Here’s hoping.
DIY, guitar pedal, Orange Squeezer
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