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  • February 15, 2011 at 9:48 am #81364
    Leh173
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    Hi there,

    I just bought a V4 90s reissue of the small stone in as new condition. Great sounding pedal. I was wondering what the best way to use it with a keyboard is. I’m currently either sending low volume directly from my synth into it or via and aux send on a mixer, also set to low level to bring down the line level outs to closer to the Hi-z input the pedal wants. It works OK but I am worried about overloading the pedal. Also when I first used it I tried my Jp-8000 directly into it but I mistakenly had the JP’s level up full and I think it was distorting breaking up quite a bit (as you’d expect) until I turned it the Jp output down, only did this for a minute. Can this permanently damage the small stone? Any advice? It’s sounding OK, but sometimes I think I can hear a bit of distortion on lower frequencies, but I might be imagining it. I’ve read about re-amping boxes and even other pedals that can take a line input and buffer it to protect the small stone. What do you guys use?

    February 15, 2011 at 2:05 pm #114319
    Cryabetes
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    I don’t use a smallstone with my synth but I do use plenty of other pedals/”guitarists toys”. I use a Juno-D and keep the volume at half run it into some pedals, and then my mixer [with its fx routing] and the mixer controls the overall output volume.

    The high level shouldn’t do any damage; it’s really not that different than sending a super-high-gain guitar signal into it.

    I’ve used the Boss LS-2 as a line buffer/bypasser before and it’s not a bad pedal. for the smallstone, I don’t think a DI or anything would really be necessary for it.

    My advice would be to not consider your keyboard’s volume your over-all volume. if you’re using it in an effects array, your volume on the JP8000 is the ‘send’ volume to the rest of the array, and if you want an overall volume, you’ll need to get a LPB-1 or a mixer or something and pop it on the end of the chain.

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