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  • November 8, 2008 at 7:48 am #77266
    fiveways
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    Anyone here own one?

    Mine is REALLY bit crushed. Like extremely. Having never seen another vintage one, nor having heard good clips of one not smeared with other effects it is hard to tell if there is a issue with mine. So I ask, how distorted is your repeats if you do own one.

    November 8, 2008 at 4:00 pm #87243
    Fender&EHX4ever
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    This is the only one I’ve heard: http://www.tonefrenzy.com/effects/electro_harmonix_16_sec_digital.html

    It sounds pretty spankin to me :rawk:

    November 8, 2008 at 5:10 pm #87247
    fiveways
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    This is the only one I’ve heard: http://www.tonefrenzy.com/effects/electro_harmonix_16_sec_digital.html

    It sounds pretty spankin to me :rawk:

    yeah that clip is usless because i would never ever use it for that short of a delay.

    November 8, 2008 at 5:41 pm #87249
    tubezipper
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    This is the only one I’ve heard: http://www.tonefrenzy.com/effects/electro_harmonix_16_sec_digital.html

    It sounds pretty spankin to me :rawk:

    Pretty nice! I would definitely use

    November 21, 2008 at 2:10 pm #87568
    The EH Man
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    The repeats are not as clean as on the reissue. The reissue has an ultra-clean repeat.

    November 21, 2008 at 8:24 pm #87584
    fiveways
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    The repeats are not as clean as on the reissue. The reissue has an ultra-clean repeat.

    Yeah, on this one they sound like a digitech pds series delay someone has messed with the trim pots on, or a bit crusher in teh fx loop of a digital delay. there is dirty and there is this one.

    It far far far dirtier then my other delays from that time period [couple digitech racks, pds8000, etc]. It sound more like my PDS20/20 that I’ve adjusted the trims on. Actually it sounds JUST like it.

    Does this sound broken to you? Do you know anyone who could referb it for me? Does anyone?

    November 21, 2008 at 8:39 pm #87585
    The EH Man
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    The repeats are not as clean as on the reissue. The reissue has an ultra-clean repeat.

    Yeah, on this one they sound like a digitech pds series delay someone has messed with the trim pots on, or a bit crusher in teh fx loop of a digital delay. there is dirty and there is this one.

    It far far far dirtier then my other delays from that time period [couple digitech racks, pds8000, etc]. It sound more like my PDS20/20 that I’ve adjusted the trims on. Actually it sounds JUST like it.

    Does this sound broken to you? Do you know anyone who could referb it for me? Does anyone?

    The only person I’ve found that could do any work on these is CJ Landry. I’ll PM his email to you.

    November 21, 2008 at 8:44 pm #87586
    fiveways
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    The repeats are not as clean as on the reissue. The reissue has an ultra-clean repeat.

    Yeah, on this one they sound like a digitech pds series delay someone has messed with the trim pots on, or a bit crusher in teh fx loop of a digital delay. there is dirty and there is this one.

    It far far far dirtier then my other delays from that time period [couple digitech racks, pds8000, etc]. It sound more like my PDS20/20 that I’ve adjusted the trims on. Actually it sounds JUST like it.

    Does this sound broken to you? Do you know anyone who could referb it for me? Does anyone?

    The only person I’ve found that could do any work on these is CJ Landry

    Thank you very much! I really wanna hear what this thing sounds like at 100%. I got a very good deal on it so I don’t mind dumping money into having it fixed.

    September 25, 2010 at 2:44 am #111653
    chineseboy
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    I’ve never heard of one. Though I’m new here so what do I know!?!?!

    September 25, 2010 at 10:16 am #111656
    electro-melx
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    I’ve never heard of one. Though I’m new here so what do I know!?!?!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkQsqinUwmI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in6bHuZo964

    here’s a couple of the original Peter Stroud EHX demo videos, it was a very cool pedal with elements of some of the pedals ehx make now like the 2880 looper, SMM Hazari, etc.

    September 25, 2010 at 4:02 pm #111661
    larsove
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POolx0icXwY here is a video of the great Nels Cline demonstrating the pedal. How did your pedal turn out in the end fiveways?

    November 29, 2010 at 3:52 am #112795
    eborej
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    I’ve had this one since the 80’s:

    EHX16SecDelayandFootswitch.jpg

    I haven’t posted any recordings of it online although the YouTube demo of it by Nels Cline provides decent audio of the longest delay of 16 second repeats. The repeats are clear with a setting of about 1 second and get progressively lo-fi the longer the delay setting beyond 1 second.

    There are two circuit boards inside stacked on top of each other and connected via a bus connector. The first board doesn’t have any trim pots and mostly covered with IC chips. I haven’t taken the second board out so I’m not sure if it has trim pots. Otherwise I’m not sure if it can be calibrated.

    November 29, 2010 at 11:45 am #112802
    The EH Man
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    I wouldn’t open it up and try. You might contact CJ Landry at cjlectronics and ask him about it.

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