Howdy,
Long time lurker, first time poster. I have completed my first valid build of the Magnus Modulus with a board ordered from GuitarPCB.com. I really like the circuit. It does everything I expected and more with the simple boost the GAIN pot can give with everything else minimized.
But I have to tell you, despite having a great build, most of my error checking over the last three days (which I thought was the perfectly good circuit) was actually my repeated, different attempts to wire the toggle switches. I had great success with simply connecting the pads together, and controlling the various aspects of the pedal simply through the various pot configurations of the different sections.
My mini-toggels have a 3 leads: a larger center lead (from research this is the "Source") and two smaller leads on either side which the toggle determines as output. Originally, since the leads from the Magnus Modulus board are two leads, and not three, I had wired the pots with one of the smaller pot leads empty, and the leads from the board to the middle and one side respectively, such that the circuit was either open or closed. But I got noises, bass thumping heartbeats, etc.
I then thought, "hey, I guess this empty second pot lead has to go somewhere, I better send it to ground." That really didn't work out because it sounded like a screaming ground fault with no volume control.
This is when I decided to simply connect all the pads together, and test the circuit without switching other than a bypass, and it sounds great- there is no noise or uglies at all.
So while, I COULD easily use the Magnus Modulus as is, is there some way to better wire these switches. Thanks,
John Blake Arnold
