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    daveammon
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    Greetings. I’ve been skimming through these fine EHX forums for the past hour, so I figured why not join the party? I got my first EHX pedal today (the Enigma), and many more are sure to follow. That said, I bought the Enigma used, and I was wondering if there was a way to tell if the previous owner adjusted the internal trim pots. The manual says the “DISTORTION LEVEL” trim pot is the only one the user should tinker with, so I’d definitely like to know whether or not the guy who sold me the pedal messed with the factory-calibrated, forbidden, mystery trim pot. Also, it would be nice to know if he adjusted the user-friendly, distortion trim pot too. I’ve tried to contact the guy and see what he has to say, but he’s not responding. Hopefully, I’ve come to the right place.

    Thanks, and stay funky

    #111823
    Fender&EHX4ever
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    Calibrating trimpots by eye is not the most reliable method, so it probably won’t help to go by a visual reference. Often trimpots are used instead of fixed resistors because of the changes or differences in tolerance of other components in the circuit. I haven’t any clue if this is true with the Enigma, because trimpots are also used to set user preferences in input gain, or direct to wet signal ratios, etc.

    If your unit doesn’t sound good to you, and you believe that the trimpots are the reason, then recalibrating them probably shouldn’t be too difficult. A method I’ve used effectively for myself is to record yourself via looper or audio recorder, then feed it into the effect while you adjust the trimpots and listen for the best sound.

    Otherwise, you might just want to send it to EHX to recalibrate it for you. They’ll probably charge a small fee.

    #111826
    daveammon
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    Thanks for the response. It’s not that the unit doesn’t sound good; I’ve been able to dial in some settings that leave my speakers dripping with nasty funk. My main concern is that the overload LED is pretty much always on, even when using a passive bass and setting the pedal’s sensitivity and q controls pretty low. Is this normal? I realize there are reasons beyond trim pot tweaking that may contribute to a constant overload, but the factory-calibrated trim pot has a little nick that could be attributed to someone attempting to make adjustments without the proper tools or know-how. Of course I could be entirely off base, and I don’t want to send the pedal in or make any of my own adjustments without knowing if the previous owner even messed with trim pots in the first place.

    I’d really appreciate it if someone would post a picture, diagram, etc. showing the factory trim pot settings. Assuming these settings don’t differ from pedal to pedal, some sort of visual aid will give me a better idea of whether or not my trim pots were tampered with by the previous owner, and if I should even bother sending it in to have it re-calibrated.

    Thanks

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