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  • #207462
    EHX STAFF
    Keymaster

    The spray can has a little straw that lets you spray in tiny areas. I spray just a little where the switch goes up and down on the outside of the case. This will seep into the switch. And on the inside, I spay on the back of the switch. There are small holes where it fits together. The goal is to find a way to get the cleaner into the switch. It will seep it a little and should work, IF it is a dirty switch.
    Hope that helps.

    #207460
    EHX STAFF
    Keymaster

    De-Oxit is a great thing for any musician to have in his stash. It cleans scratchy volume controls and switches.
    The switch is kind of sealed, so spray in every opening you can find. It will seep it. You don’t need a lot. Then push the switch on and off 10 times and see if it cleans up.
    My studio is dusty and switches can corrode, so it has worked for me many times.
    If not, please reach out to the techs.

    #207454
    bhagyaachievers4
    Participant

    I get referred to the EHX Ravish page and a link to the Manual. Is there a way to see the presets?

    Thanks
    CA Final Test Series

    #207453
    bhagyaachievers4
    Participant

    I cannot see/locate the actual image for the Ravish presets. I get referred to the EHX Ravish page and a link to the Manual. Is there a way to see the presets?

    Thanks
    CA Final Test Series

    #207445
    EHX STAFF
    Keymaster

    The switches often get dirty and all they need is a shot of deox-it contact cleaner.
    But if the hack tech screwed it up, I dont know.
    Please write the techs at ehx they can fix it cheap and fast. No need to buy another.

    Write them tomorrow at
    info@ehx.com.
    It is a holiday, so you may hear back next week…
    if not check your spam folder and write me back here.

    Rockandroll
    Participant

    I have a cover band and we cover a lot of arena rock. Back in the 80’s you needed a pair of vice grips on your nuts to hit some of those octaves. Being 30+ years older isn’t easier to sing. I figured out a cheat on how to hit those notes by using LEAD MUTE and OCTAVE UP on the Voice Box. This issue is when you kit on the OCTAVE UP portion…the volume drops out about 15%. I use this effect to sing Motley Crue, Firehouse, Quiet Riot, Slaughter and other ball busting Octaves with ease. I sing an octave lower…and what comes out of the amp is blistering octave up vocals.

    The issue with the current VOICE BOX is the reverb is very minimalistic, there is no DELAY effects, and the GENDER doesn’t have a lot of range. Again when I use the LEAD MUTE with the OCTAVE UP the volume drops out. Sure there is a mic boost switch but its too much and its not hands free when switching between bypass and the effect.

    EUREKA…a new product is born. Hypothetically call it the ROCK VOX. Lets pretend you are singing the song by Steel Heart, “I’ll Never Let You go” .

    You sing the lyrics in a normal voice however, when you get to the chorus of the song, you step on the LEAD MUTE/OCTAVE UP switch and you can still maintain your normal singing voice, while out of the speaker you hear blistering octave up vocals coming out with delay and reverb. Once the chorus is over, you step on the LEAD MUTE/OCTAVE up switch and you are back to normal voice. I use this trick all of the time and it blows the crowd away. However I found flaws with TC Helicon doing this as well as volume drop out issues with Electro-harmonix VOICE BOX. This could be built several ways.

    1. Create a dry pedal that has Gender Bender and when you step on a switch, it automatically LEAD MUTES/OCATAVE up. Can add separate reverb and delay pedals to the chain.

    2. Use existing pedals and combine in one platform. Put the HOLY GRAIL REVERB next to the PROPHET DELAY side by side built in the pedal design. Then add the LEAD MUTE/OCTAVE UP PEDAL integrated with those platforms. Make sure to put the OCTAVE UP/LEAD MUTE switch to the far Left of the pedal for easy access and activation to avoid accidentally stepping on the other switches. I drew out the design but I am unable to attach it. Kindly email me and I will email the design concept not to scale. A crude example of the layout below:

    (KNOBS) GENDER BENDER REVERB TIME REPEATS MIX
    spring 1/16
    hall 1/8
    flerb 3/8

    LARGE LED 0 0 0 0 (SMALL 0 ARE LED INDICATORS)

    0 0 0 0 (SMALL 0 ARE THE METAL FOOT SWITCHES)

    (FOOT SWITCHES) OCTAVE ON/OFF MIC BYPASS REVERB DELAY
    LEAD MUTE ON/OFF ON/OFF

    ***A large LED indicator is helpful becomes sometimes you forget to turn it off and when you speak the audience you sound like Mickey Mouse.
    ***The foot switch near the end makes it easier to turn off and on without having to look down while playing guitar.
    *** Integrate the lead mute and the octave up together. Make sure there is no signal drop or boost when activated.

    Thanks for humoring me.
    discokillers2018@gmail.com

    Many people would love to easily sing high range songs but just can do it (that includes me). With a similar set up I am knocking it out of the park. I believe this item would be a huge success.

    #207217
    Tomgop
    Participant

    Hi 🙂
    I need electronic help about my EH0400… i can solder and so on but i don’t understand what’s wrong with this Synth…
    i need to repair it for a friend…
    Can you please help me if i give you some picture ?
    I hope so 🙂

    A wire is desolder and i don’t know where it should be connected and a capacitor is broken (12pF) but before that the synth didn’t want to work..

    Thx

    Tom

    TXJeff
    Participant

    Also I have an Octave Multiplexer from the 1990s.

    In the 1970s I decided to take 4 EHX pedals, the EM, OM, Bib Muff Pi V1, Small Stone Phase V1 and a breadboarded Guitar Sound Intensifier (fancy words for preamp/treble/bass boost/cut circuit) that was actually featured in an old Popular Mechanics magazine that I still have the article for. I decided to disassemble the individual boxes and get one bigger box and make it “The Squawking Owl” that incorporates all the effects with a power supply I made. Used it for many years. I decide I would like to sell the unit but when I went to test it I noticed the Flanger, when on, had a whole lot of white noise in the background with the flanging. I thought I would exlude the power supply and I disconnected the flanger from it and wired a separage AC adapter type PS to the board but I screwed up and reversed the polarity. That made something unhappy. After awhile I stopped getting sound entirely out of that effect. The rest were still working fine. But then I took the flanger out to troubleshoot it and wired around the footswitch for it and for some reason, now my Octavizer isn’t working in effect mode. Ugh. So frustrating. Everything on that effect seems to be wired correctly with power. So I no longer own my big old oscilloscope, I decided to buy a small portable OS and a small transistor/capacitor/diode tester.

    I went ahead on the flanger and replaced all the chips but the one that’s hard to get, the Reticon SAD1024 (that used to be $7 at Radio Shack). I also replaced the two transistors with equivalent PNPs. I get sound out of the flanger in effect mode but no flanging (oscillation) but no white noise either. Hmmm.

    So my problem is I can do a rudimentary troubleshooting with a signal generator and the oscilloscope and see that the wave is making it through the Op Amps and such, but it would help if I had a service guide that would tell me what I should see at the various points at the chips and such. So I can see where the flaw is. Same with the Octave effect. I haven’t changed any parts on that yet. But all the chips on it are available for not that expensive as it’s a newer effect.

    If I can’t fix it I will probably have to start selling off parts as non working on Ebay.

    Thanks for reading.

    We have two foot trigger product suggestions below. Unfortunately we have not actually tested either of them with the Crash Pad or Super Space Drum.

    Ddrum NIO Foot Pedal Controller – https://www.ddrum.com/product-ddfs/
    KAT Hi-Hat Controller – https://katpercussion.com/kthc1.html

    VikingSuperstar
    Participant

    I’m looking for a foot pedal that will trigger the crash pad or space drum. Will those foot pedals from electronic drum sets work for this, or do they only work for those drum sets?

    The EH Man
    Moderator

    From the Crash Pad manual: This 1⁄4” jack is the input for an external trigger. The Crash
    Pad triggers on positive going pulses or clock signals ranging from 3V to 15V or
    +/- 3V to +/-8V. Nearly all types of gate, clock and trigger signals that fall within
    this voltage range will trigger the Crash Pad. Some examples of acceptable
    trigger signals include electronic drum trigger pads, an electronic pulse (as
    produced by the EHX Clockworks), a clock generator (as produced by the EHX 8
    Step), gate signals from synthesizers such as V-Trigger, or sync signals from
    drum machines. The input impedance is 2Mohms.

    Back in the 1980s there was an External Trigger box which was simply a piezo transducer. It worked fine on all the drum units back then. I’d get some piezo discs and try them out. They’re easily mounted to just about anything.

    VikingSuperstar
    Participant

    I want to play them like a hi hat and kick drum.

    #207044
    TiredNoise
    Participant

    Just like you I have been imagining my ideal HOG and even did a drawing of it in my own childish scribble.
    https://i.postimg.cc/RhFzSSYW/IMG-2527.jpg

    Here I imagined it in the same size and topography as the Oceans 12 and Grand Canyon. And I called it HOG12 as it has 12 voices. Because the sliders take up so much space and are bad for presets, I had the values represented on LED strips or rows of lights under the pitch select button. So rather than one light and a description as in the Oceans 12 it’s a short description and a series of lights. Then if say the volume is represented by yellow lights then the panning of the pitch could be represented by single red light somewhere along the line. With that, selecting a preset will visually show the pitches and panning.

    The other function I included cover the existing expression, filter, attack and decay as the current HOG but adding to that a lot of the functionality of the Superego +. So we have the ability to select auto, momentary or latching on the freeze foot switch as well as having control over threshold and gliss.

    The other bit I added in was to have the ability to select either a major or minor key to expand the pitch selection a bit more.

    I love the idea of a sequencer or at least assignable delay to each pitch.

    I’m very excited to see what ehx come up with, however I feel like I could be easily disappointed now. I’m glad others are into this pedal so an update may be on the way soon.

    #207038
    PedalBun
    Participant

    Trying to post this under a different account as the first disappeared. Here are my thoughts on a Hog 3 as well!
    What do you think?

    IdeaHog3

    #207031

    In reply to: EHX Power Supply Info

    EHX STAFF
    Keymaster

    Ettore
    A 9 volt dc supply will be fine. A fresh 9 volt battery actually puts out 9.6 volts when new.
    The .6 volts means nothing.
    Just make sure the polarity is correct.
    The only problem you may have is daisy chaining power on a digital pedal is it can produce noise.
    The better multi power supplies have each output isolated from each other. This produces less noise and ground interference between the pedals.
    Give what you have a try and see if there is a problem.

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