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November 4, 2009 at 3:10 pm #79262MarcusWillabyMember
I love the sound, I took achance and bought 2 of them before trying them. They sound great. Only there is a ridiculous volume boost when they are engaged. They simply aren’t usable the way they are right now. I’m hoping someone has answers. Is there a gain trim inside?
April 24, 2010 at 1:33 am #109362ynotMemberI’m also hoping for an answer to this,soon too or mine is going back.I just got it today & noticed a big volume boost.This screws with my whole setup because my main amp has no FX loop & since it also has no master volume everything is based around gain staging in my chain (cln/dist etc..).Any info on this would be greatly appreciated.
April 24, 2010 at 1:49 am #109349Mr.GrimMemberi dont know anything about the insides of this pedal, but when i have a volume cut with a pedal i use an lpb-1 booster every time with the problem pedal, and with a pedal with a volume boost i would use a volume attenuator with the pedal, and use sum type of switching pedal like the switchblade or a bypass loop pedal so you can turn on both pedals at once!
i sell a volume pedal (w/ optional optical control) and a true bypass looper (w/ feedback option), but you could easily make one yourself as well!
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April 24, 2010 at 5:12 am #108871ynotMemberThanx but I’ll probably just return it & get something else.If the pedal is incapable of unity gain & don’t have an adjustment then I’d rather just not use it.Last thing I need is an extra pedal in my chain for each pedal I have to compensate for.
April 24, 2010 at 7:22 am #108790electro-melxModeratorIt’s to compensate for the EHX pedals that have a volume drop.
July 13, 2010 at 3:35 pm #110185yonieMemberHi,
I also suffer from the volume boost that is there no matter what I set the blend to.
I see there are 3 trimpots inside the Memory Toy. One is for the Modulation Depth. Could one of those others be for gain?
If not, can i return the unit and get a replacement hoping that one won’t have the boost?
Thanks,
Ronald
July 14, 2010 at 1:49 am #110192ynotMemberQuote:Hi,I also suffer from the volume boost that is there no matter what I set the blend to.
I see there are 3 trimpots inside the Memory Toy. One is for the Modulation Depth. Could one of those others be for gain?
If not, can i return the unit and get a replacement hoping that one won’t have the boost?
Thanks,
Ronald
This is the reply i got from EHX when I asked about the volume issue.I ended up returning mine:
“Hello. Unfortunately that is normal for this unit and there is no trim pot adjustment to lower the gain.
Regards,”July 14, 2010 at 11:21 am #110197yonieMemberQuote:Quote:Hi,I also suffer from the volume boost that is there no matter what I set the blend to.
I see there are 3 trimpots inside the Memory Toy. One is for the Modulation Depth. Could one of those others be for gain?
If not, can i return the unit and get a replacement hoping that one won’t have the boost?
Thanks,
Ronald
This is the reply i got from EHX when I asked about the volume issue.I ended up returning mine:
“Hello. Unfortunately that is normal for this unit and there is no trim pot adjustment to lower the gain.
Regards,”Thanks for the information. Did you get a replacement that did work?
July 14, 2010 at 2:20 pm #110199ynotMemberQuote:Thanks for the information. Did you get a replacement that did work?Yeah…but it wasn’t a EHX pedal.
July 27, 2010 at 10:08 pm #110513yonieMemberFYI I mailed EHX support and recieved the following reply:
“Hello.
The volume boost is normal. We set it up so that when BLEND is set to 50%, there is no volume boost. As you turn Blend the volume changes, this is normal for a wet/dry control.
All the units are the same in that regard.New Sensor”
I need to doublecheck if this is indeed the case (no volume change at 50% setting).
May 24, 2013 at 6:11 am #119089uglylittlebunnyMemberI can’t seem to find a ‘good’ unity setting. Yes; with the blend knob at 12 o’clock the dry signal at unity BUT the repeats are very loud (as loud if not LOUDER than dry signal). All the way counter-clockwise basically turns the pedal into a boost. These observations hold true no matter what position the mod switch is in.
I don’t really mind, I guess; but I probably wouldn’t have bought it if I had known. It was a really tough choice between it and the MXR Carbon Copy. Who knows; the CC may have done the same thing lol.
It’s not really a pedalboard killer, just a minor annoyance; especially since you can’t fix it lol.
EDIT: I have noticed that the pedal becomes obnoxiously loud when on if there’s a fuzz or distortion in front of it that’s on. For example, the Big Muff Pi makes the Memory Toy sound like shit; the Wampler Pinnacle Deluxe – not bad (still a little louder, but very nice overall).
May 24, 2013 at 9:23 pm #119094yonieMemberI got used to the volume change when engaged. Some other pedals like a tremolo might weaken the signal a bit, this pedal boosts it, it’s all good.
What matters is that this pedal has been on my board all the time since I bought it (more than 3 years now), I basically have it engaged all the time with the blend low (9 o’ clock) for certain songs. The atmosphere it creates is very convincing.
Way to go, EHX!
May 24, 2013 at 9:30 pm #119095uglylittlebunnyMemberYea I suppose it’s a lost cause trying to make everything perfect and unity in the analog world. It kind of works nicely as a little boost when I go into a nice Petrucci-like neck pickup solo; just kick in the delay and it also boosts my signal. Perfect. It’s just annoying when I’m playing quietly at night and the boost startles me lol.
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