VS Jekyll & Hyde went haywire!

[dric]

Ok, so i was playing on the hyde channel, and decided to get a bit of boost for a solo part using the jekyll channel. i step on the jekyll switch, NO BOOST! i check all the knobs are at the correct settings. so i turn of the hyde channel and try the jekyll channel. only clean sounds!! i was horrified! i keep stepping a few times just cos i couldn't believe it, sometimes the channel comes on, sometimes just clean sound! the LEDs work fine btw.

ok so i calm myself down and turn off the jekyll channel. i switch on the hyde! NO LED and NO SOUND!

i open up the pedal and realise a bit of the trace at the switch of the hyde channel has come off. ok so i solder all the lugs of the switch directly to the next component on the board. test it and now the hyde channel works fine. whew!

i look at the jekyll, but can't seem to find anything wrong with the traces or soldering. and since the led lights up sometimes, i sort of concluded that its a faulty switch.

any idea what's wrong with the jekyll channel? the LED lights up but only sometimes i get the overdrive. anyone else experience this before would care to share?

thanks peeps. for some reason this week my pedals seem to be going nuts. all at once!!

 

[tany]

as far as i know, jnh eventually will have these kind of problems. very sian.

 

[tubescreamer]

Hey thats nothing unusual really. I've got 2 VS pedals (JnH and H20) and have experienced the same problems you mentioned. Got them fixed at Misse for 20 each and the problems appeared again (Just before a gig, had to borrow a mish mash for pedals for that), sent them to G77 thereafter and they seem ok for now. They still act up a little on occasion though. Perhaps its time for Bob Weil to relook QC at VS China.