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    paulyuk6
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    Greetings all

    Last weekend I bought the C9 organ pedal through the excellent PMT store in Cambridge (UK).
    The pedal itself works great and I am very pleased with it. BUT when it is bypassed, so I can play the clean guitar sound, there is an annoying high pitched whistle coming through in the background. It is masked while I am playing the guitar, but as soon as I stop playing it can be heard again in the background. It almost sounds like leakage from the organ tone generation circuitry which isn’t being muted enough in bypass mode. It sounds worse if I happen to be using an overdrive pedal as it is obviously being boosted.

    Is there an internal setting control within the unit to adjust or prevent this?

    thanks

    Paul

    #121561
    Scruffie
    Member

    What power supply are you using? The C9 doesn’t like being daisy chained, try it on a separate supply and see if the issue resolves.

    #121563
    fuzzy joe
    Member

    I have the same problem with my b9 pedal. seems a little less with the provided wall wart, but it’s always there. A good noise gate almost takes care of it.

    #121566
    paulyuk6
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    What power supply are you using? The C9 doesn’t like being daisy chained, try it on a separate supply and see if the issue resolves.

    I’m using my C9 on my pedal board. It is first in the chain of 5 pedals. Powered by a Voodoo power unit.
    All of the other pedals are noise free. It is only the C9 which is whining. To me it sounds like a design fault. The bypass circuitry should be good enough to filter out any internal noise generation.

    Paul

    #125520
    arch1e
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    Same issue with B9 when daisy chained. The supplied power supply doesn’t have the problem. But the B9 is the only pedal I have with this problem.

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