Stephen wrote:
Your soldering needs a lot of improvement. The input and output jacks are clearly cold solders. I can’t see the stomp switch very well but it appears to have cold solders as well. In the first photo just to the right of the pot on the left I can still see most of the solder pad. A quality solder joint will cover the entire pad. Two solder joints above that you have a solder that looks like a thorn. This is another cold solder joint. A quality joint will never look like the top of a DQ soft-serve icecream cone. The little pigtails of component lead sticking thru most of your solder joints all need to go. These are all short circuit risks. The lead should be cut off right at the top of the solder joint. There should be nothing poking thru the top of the solder joint.
The soldering on the PCB looks very good, though, except for those "pigtails" that need to be clipped. It's the wire connections to the jacks and footswitch that need work. Here's a tip for the I/O jacks: the solder tabs on these jacks have some sort of thin coating on them that impedes the wetting action of the molten solder and causes it to "ball up" and may result in the dreaded cold joint. I suggest scuffing them up with a bit of sandpaper before soldering, which exposes fresh metal surface and allows the solder to wet the surface properly. Makes a BIG difference.
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