Troubleshooting 3.0

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Your ADC seems to work fine, it is such a simple input circuit that I cannot see where the signal path is broken. It should go from the tip of the jack, go through the 3PDT, pass the cap and the resistor and enter into the opamp.

For a sigjal generator there is plenty of phones apps so you cand use your cell phone as a signal generator. I also use some free software to generate signals with your laptop sound card but I dont remember the name right now. There are plenty of free software for that.

If you have a multimemeter measure the resistor to make sure that they are fine and not broken, very rarely they can break as open circuits.

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Wow, amazing job!
Yes, there are 3 low pass filters with a cut frew around 5KHz, this freq looks a bit low but a lot of guitar pedals use this frequency because the balance between performance and sound is good.

So using your hand wired circuit and using the pedalSHIELD DUE op-amp and the arduino board with a similar circuit you have it working fine?
If its like this, there is only one posibility and its some bad solder joint or some extra solder going to the wrong place and connecting two undesired pins.
I am not sure about what equipment you have, I guess that you dont have an oscilloscope, otherwise is pretty easy to inject a signal in the input (using a cell phone signal generator app) and just follow the signal path till the signal disappears.

If you have a multimeter can you check one by one the pins of every component on the input stage and check that they are not grounded or soldered to the next pin?
To check this pins is important to do it on the top side of the board, sometimes the connectivity is broken between the top and the bottom side.
Also check that the pin A0 in the arduino board reaches the cap C1 (measured from the bottom of the arduino board to the C1 on the top side of the pedalshield board.)
More ideas:
- Try removing R1, it is not an essential component (it reduces pops) and may be causing some problem.
- You can link (solder a small piece of wire) between the legs of R5, it will transform all the input stage into a simple buffer and if it works like this (the volume will be lower of course because there is no gain) that will mean that the problem is around R4,R5, C3, C4, RV1.

99% of the time is just some joint or small silly mistake, and there is something in the input stage not working properly....

keep us updated with your progress.

Again, nice work:

So I used the frequency of 3,3khz (above the cut off freq)

I guess that you meant below the cut frequency.

So, this are my ideas:

1. Which signal level are you introducing with the signal generator? guitars are usually between 200mVpp and 1Vpp, depending your model and whether they are active or not
2. When you check the level at the ADC input, the signal amplitude is the same as the input signal. The input op-amp has an adjustable gain (using RV1) between 1 and 21. Looking at your signals seems that you are working with unity gain, for guitar signals this is usually too low, the idea is to adjust is so the signal at the input of the op-amp has a peak to peak of around around 4V over 2.5V of offset. Are you aware that the
3. I know that you are not a big fan of the 5KHz high pass filters, guitar signals dont have much info above that freqs and if you dont do this low pass filtering you end up having aliasing noise. 5KHz is a good balance between performance/sound, Boss uses 5KHz 3rd order Sallen&Key filters in some pedals and MXR does something similar. Anyway, if you want to experiment and you want to let more freqs through the filter, you can add some caps (10nF?) in parallel to the 68nF and remove the 270pF cap
4. I would repeat the experiment using a 200mVpp nput signal (I think that you are using something like this) BUT using RV1 to give a gain of 10 so you get a 2Vpp signal at the input of the ADC floating over 2.5V
5. The op-amps sockets can be dodgy. Try to measure continuity bet ween the op-amp pin and the elements of the active filter (on top side)