Hi! I’m new here so please don’t be too harsh if I ask some stupid questions. I’m from Poland, I play guitar for 2 years and a half and 2 days ago I bought my first EHX pedal ever – It’s an Electric Mistress Flanger. It’s very old (the previous owner said it’s about 30 years old) and I have a problem with making it work. I know it works ok, because the guy I bought it from sent me a YouTube video of it and it sounds awsome, but I don’t know what kind of power supply does it need.
It has the standard small jack power supply input, but I don’t know the polarization and the voltage. I don’t want to screw the pedal up, so maybe some more experienced users will know how do help me. Unfortunately I can’t buy an original EHX power adapter – not in Poland so I need to get a different one. Can somebody help me?
cheers from Poland and thx for the help in advance
gyarugo
Thx Unfortunately it doesn’t have any battery connectors inside. There isn’t even any information on the polarization on the PCB.
I tried to connect a standard 9V 600 mA power supply with positive tip, and it made these “broken” sounds. So maybe the voltage is too low, but I don’t want to break it.
Here’s a link to the auction I bought it from with some photos of the inside. Maybe this will help.
Thx for the help. I connected an 18V power supply to the flanger and.. unfortunately nothing happens. I get sound with the effect on and off, one is bypass for sure, the other is a bit like if I was using a compressor, but there is no flanger effect AT ALL. I even located the wires for the batteries inside (someone has cut them, that’s why I didn’t notice them before – thx a lot for the photo – it helped to locate them) and connected 2 9V batteries – still I get no flanger at all. What can be wrong?
The guy I bought it from did a demo for me and it worked perfectly well even with a 12V adapter (or so he claims).
PS When I connect a 9V power adapter I get sth like a ‘broken’ flanger effect – I mean there is sth that resembles a flanger but it sounds awful.
Can you help me? Thx in advance.
If he was using a different adapter it may need to be calibrated. Turn the blue trimpot on the right a bit and see if it starts working. Mark the original position with a marker first so you can set it back.
It doesn’t help. I’m running on batteries and turning it in both directions, I ran out of range and the only thing I get is distortion or some kind of ‘police car’ noise that continues even if I stop playing. By pot on the right you mean the one on the right on the photo?