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  • February 14, 2010 at 4:30 pm #79880
    Dirty Clean
    Member

    Hi,

    I was messing around with ‘trim5’ trimpot inside my Memory Boy, and now it sounds funny, even thou i turned it back to where it was originally, it seems that the feedback is more sensitive and the delay is longer, kinda like an expression pedal is plugged in all the time or something. I was wondering how i could correct this problem and get it back to a stock-ish like setting.

    Thanks

    ps i cant help myself, almost everything i own i take apart and mess with to see how things work.

    February 14, 2010 at 9:33 pm #107504
    angryboy
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    I have the same problem, but even worse.. mine doesn’t work at all anymore… :( But it started to sound strange before I touched anything on the inside so.. I guess it would have been useless anyway..

    February 14, 2010 at 10:52 pm #107512
    electro-melx
    Moderator

    https://www.ehx.com/forums/viewthread/223/

    MY PEDAL HAS TRIM POTS INSIDE, CAN I ADJUST THESE TO MAKE MY PEDAL BETTER?:

    “Generally speaking, NO you cant make it any better by adjusting them and in most cases you will actually make it sound worse! The builders set these trim pots to make precise adjustments to transistors and OPAMPS, they adjust the voltage and or bias of certain effects. SO unless your manual says you can adjust the trim pot just don’t do it as you will need an expensive oscilloscope and a lot of knowledge to reset them correctly. If you do adjust them it will likely result in you having to send your pedal back to the manufacturer for resetting, this will cost you money for the repair and for shipping both ways as you wrecked it so you pay for it.

    User friendly trim pots are always noted in the product manual and the trims are usually marked by the builder for the optimum sound, you can safely adjust these with no risk of ruining your pedal.”

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