Recently I had been experiencing a weird issue with my TS-808 pedal, everything seemed to be okay when the TS-808 pedal was bypassed, but, when I engaged it I noticed that the output level was a bit low and would gradually get a bit louder, so I decided to have a look inside it to see if I could figure out what was going on, and it was while I was looking inside the pedal that I accidentally found the cause of the issue, I found a loose wire that had obviously broken away from the circuit board, the wire went to the middle solder lug on the output-level control pot, I examined the component side of the circuit board to see where the wire came from and found an empty hole next to some other wires, so I flipped the circuit board over, located the solder pad, used some solderwick to desolder the pad, a small piece of wire came away from the solder pad, next I stripped the end of the loose wire, tinned it and then soldered it to the circuit board, when I gave my TS-808 pedal a test out after putting it all back together I found that it was now working again as it was supposed to, with good output level, what's more, it no longer behaved like it did before, so I'm considering it fixed for the time being.
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