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  • January 10, 2010 at 12:31 pm #79673
    snaredrum
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    hi guys – i just got a memory boy, and it won’t self oscillate. it seems that the feedback setting isn’t as “to infinity and beyond” as it should be.

    assuming that sending it anywhere is out of the question (i got it second hand and am in the UK) can i mess with the internal trimpots? which one would i mess with?

    cheers!

    January 31, 2010 at 2:30 pm #106980
    snaredrum
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    hi guys – i just got a memory boy, and it won’t self oscillate. it seems that the feedback setting isn’t as “to infinity and beyond” as it should be.

    assuming that sending it anywhere is out of the question (i got it second hand and am in the UK) can i mess with the internal trimpots? which one would i mess with?

    cheers!

    i can’t be the only person with this problem, surely?

    any EHX staffers here that could suggest which trim pot to twiddle?

    January 31, 2010 at 7:45 pm #106984
    julian
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    not an EHX staffer, so no clue what trim to twiddle, and I wouldn’t really do it blindly, you could completely screw up the pedal if you do.

    But are you using the power supply that came with it, or are you daisy chaining?

    February 1, 2010 at 10:41 pm #107035
    Clickjack
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    The memory boy seems to be kind of a finicky creature. Try setting the delay to about 4 or 5. The Depth all the way off. Blend to about 12 or 1. Feed back to 12. I find that from this point if I move the feedback clock wise at all, it really began to run away. But what I have found is that unlike many other pedals every setting on the other controls seems effect how the other controls will respond.

    Hope this helps.

    February 2, 2010 at 12:19 am #107039
    snaredrum
    Member

    first off thanks for replying guys – julian, i used it with the EH power supply until the last few days, when i used my pedalboard supply and found i get a longer delay time from that (which is kinda strange, really)

    clicks, thanks for those tips i’ll try them in the morning – i’ve been using an m-audio expression pedal as well to try and push oscillation, but it just ain’t happening.

    it isn’t the end of the world (i have SOME perspective thank cripes) but one of the coolest things about analog delays is the noise factor, darn it!

    :)

    February 2, 2010 at 12:25 am #107040
    spayne99
    Member

    I have no problem getting self oscillation anywhere further clockwise than 12:00 on the feedback knob. I don’t have an expression pedal yet, but I plugged a patch cable into the expression pedal jack and found that affects the response of the various knobs (they react differently than if nothing were plugged into the exp pedal jack). Interesting pedal, and I love it.

    February 2, 2010 at 12:43 am #107046
    Clickjack
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    I’ve heard of that working for several ppl, you might try it.

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