My fucked up, corroded, beer-stained Tone Bender is behaving really strangely and I can't seem to figure out what's causing it -- would any of the tinkerers here happen to have any suggestions of things to try?
When I first plugged into it, it sounded wimpy and raspy and just all-round awful. After opening it up and measuring voltages etc, however, it started to work properly and it sounded ace. This seemed to last for a couple of weeks, but sure enough, eventually it went back to its same old weak sizzle.
The Tone Bender remained in this sorry state until I bravely tried to open the pedal up again to poke around inside. I kept the guitar plugged in during the course of doing so (NB: dismantling a MKI is particularly awful when the paintjob is as fragile as this) and it didn't take long before the fuzz started to work again. In fact, all it took was removing the four screws, and gently prising the top half of the enclosure away from the black base.
^ Like, this is really all that it took to get the pedal to work again. The two halves aren't even fully separated, and yet it was such a simple solution to this annoying issue. I'm reluctant to put the pedal back together again until I can figure out exactly what the problem was, because the problem is bound to happen again. Please help me!
so I'm ruling out that as the cause for the issue as well.
