Noob on a mission -Ibanez Sonic Distortion

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Hi, completely new to this forum but have tinkered with a few things over the years....I have an old 80` Ibanez Sonic Distortion that I bought new when I was in my early teens (I`m 42 now). I plugged into it a few days ago and didn`t get any output in bypass mode, but it works fine when you kick in the distortion part of it, so it is sort of like a killswitch right now. I changed batteries, tried a 9 volt power supply and it is the same. Pulled the switch out and cleaned it a bit, still the same. I`m looking for a little direction how to troubleshoot/debug it. Any and all help would be appreciated. Thanks.




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I'm pretty sure this pedal has fet switching, so perhap's the fet or something has died. I didn't find a decent schematic googling but you could try the search function here at FSB. I'm sure there is a schematic laying around here some where.

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It does have the fet switch in it, I have an old analog delay that died and couldn`t be revived that I can pull the switch out of and swap with the SD-9. If that doesn`t work, true bypass is the next option. Thanks for both replies, both had very useful information in them.

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The switch was bad, back in business again. My next deal is going to be getting a pedal kit and building it, I`m not sure if I can find a Lovepedal Purple Plexi 800 clone, but there are a bunch of Tube Screamer and Rat clones out there on the web.......Any recommendations?

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