Hello team,

First, I do want to say that the Mel 9 is a great pedal concept. It tracks wonderfully, and is an excellent way to add a library of excellent sounds to your tool kit.

However, having said that Im running into issues that are making me wonder if I got a lemon. Most importantly as soon as I plugged this in to my pedal board, my Deluxe Big Muff suddenly developed a low frequency hum that is absolutely maddening. Ive tweaked and adjusted, and have “almost” suppressed it, but not quite. The sad thing is that it was absolutely silent before I plugged in the Mel 9. Which is exactly what I want.

To complicate matters when I first added the Mel 9 to my effects chain, at the beginning of the chain right after the tuner, it wouldn’t work. I ended up tearing the entire board apart to see what the problem was but nothing seemed to make everything work in conjunction. I stumbled on a “trick” to get it to work inline.

When the board is first powered on, everything lights up including the Mel 9, all my pedals work as expected except the Mel 9. Hitting the foot switch stops all sound when clicked on. Clicking it off, everything else works as normal.

I found that if you power on the board, then pull the power supply from the Mel 9 and re insert it, it seems to “initialize” in a way it doesn’t initialize when I switch on my board. Very weird behavior that doesn’t make sense. And now Im working if my Mel 9 is bad.

Anyone else have experiences like this with the Mel 9 or any other EH pedal?

Any help would be appreciated here. Thanks.

– Sez