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  • January 13, 2012 at 7:13 pm #82143
    Green man
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    I just bought a dirty cheap second handed Small Stone the other day. It was only 20€ but everything seemed to be in order. I was waiting to come to my hometown to try it. I own a Small clone with and its AC adaptor, so I plugged the stone there taking the clone out of the chain. It sounds ok, but when the rate is high (starting at 2 o’clock with the color down, 3 with it up), you hear a quite loud “train” sound in the background. The rate of the train sound is as fast as the rate of the phase and it gets reaaaaally loud in the highest rates.

    The pedal is this one, and I have no $%&/# clue of how to fix it.
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    Greetings from Spain.
    It’s my first post but I’ve read a lot and I gotta say you have a pretty nice forum here.

    Edit: You have a sample of the sound in the fourth post.

    January 16, 2012 at 11:16 am #116764
    Green man
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    C’mon guys! No-one knows what may be going on?

    January 16, 2012 at 5:16 pm #116766
    Cryabetes
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    this is a pretty slow moving forum. Can you record a sound sample of what the train sound is like? They do get pretty obnoxious about halfway through the sweep.

    January 18, 2012 at 11:42 am #116791
    Green man
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    Sure, I’ll do it this Friday when I’m back at home!

    January 22, 2012 at 3:40 pm #116832
    Green man
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    And here it is as promised. The volume is not too high, but you’ll get it. I started playing with a “normal” sound and then I turned up the rate knob so the obnoxious sound begins.

    Sample

    January 23, 2012 at 1:22 am #116837
    Cryabetes
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    hm. either sounds like the LFO is coming directly through (not too likely given that everything else is working) or that the phaser’s notches are creating a peak at lower frequencies which, while normally not a terrible thing (or at least, a very noticable thing) is working with the white noise from your guitar. Have you tried it with a different guitar at all?
    or just a fuzz pedal cranked all the way up (just a patch cable in the input of the fuzz, no instrument driving it) to see if it exists with other equipment?

    January 23, 2012 at 12:33 pm #116843
    Green man
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    Have you tried it with a different guitar at all?

    I’ve tried with my three guitars and it happens with all of them. The first time it happened I was playing with P90 pickups and I thought it could be the guitar, but it’s not.

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    or just a fuzz pedal cranked all the way up (just a patch cable in the input of the fuzz, no instrument driving it) to see if it exists with other equipment?

    I’ve tried two different amps and different configurations: only that pedal in between of the guitar and amp, putting it into the effects chain… It’s just something into the pedal. It has to be. Anyway, when I’m back (and that’s gonna be in around 15 days, since tomorrow I’m gonna travel) I’ll try what you say with my big muff.

    Thanks for the help!

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