Need help

[Bassisst90]

Hey, y'all. I was just working on a double sided circuit board and when I took out one of the capacitors, the top-side eyelet came off. So, I was wondering, what can I do to fix it?

[diggum12]

You can't really reattach the eyelet, that's the bad news.  The good news is you can still have a functioning pedal.  There's 2 ways to go about this. 

Is the side you're working on the side with the trace?  If so, just run a new jumper or wire to the next component on the trace lead.

If the side you're working on is not the side with the trace, then you don't even have to worry about it.  The solder on the other side of the board will suffice. 

[Bassisst90]

I don't know. There's no trace, but there's still a tiny bit of a signal. It has solder on the other side of the board, but its doesn't seem to fix the problem. Shall I post a picture?

[diggum12]

There's no trace, but there's still a tiny bit of a signal.

I'm talking about a PCB trace on the board.  There should be one connecting the pad (on one side of the board or the other) to another component.  Follow the trace to the next component, and solder a jumper to it.

A pic may help if this doesn't do it for you. 

[Bassisst90]

Thanks. Its working once again, though a certain mod asked for a 47k resistor in one place, and the person who made the mod said, if it wasn't loud enough, lower the resistance. It wasn't loud enough, so I made the resistor a 4.7k, and now there is a lot more noise, so where is a good place to have the resistance low enough so that it is loud enough to hear but doesn't have as much amplifier noise and radio signal?

[Paul Marossy]

Try a 10K and see if that works better.