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I got my rotary switch all sorted out, I think. My boost seems to only work correctly in the germanium mode. The red boosts and adds some distortion. The green is also distorted,not clean at all. The blue doesnt light up and is very, very distorted, almost fuzzy. I dont think its the LED or the switch... not sure where to go from here...

I dont have a camera handy right now, but could get one tomorrow. I checked my soldering, its pretty clean. I did kinda guess whn it came to the caps because my multimeter didnt seem to read them in a way that made sense to me.

Ok, so I checked the instructions and lo and behold, there is a guide to the caps. So my caps were and are correct.

So for a bump...


I still cant get the clean boost or the blue LED to work. I see some other people might be having a switch problem. I have checked all my resistors, caps, wiring. I even noticed that the power plug is wired two different ways in the video and in the instructions... so frustrating. I took i to practice though and germanium sounds great

do you have the ring on the rotary switch in correctly.

as for the clean boost, does it get cleaner when you adjust the trim pot?

IF it is a problem with the switch, it should be easy to tell by testing continuity with your DMM. Check the stop ring as fadetowhite has suggested. The adaptor jack in the video is not wired differently. The jacks are just a 1/4 turn different from each other.