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  • December 22, 2008 at 12:01 pm #77427
    Murdock
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    Hi everyone,

    I have an EHX Micro Synthesizer for guitar. Few days ago while I was playing with the band the pedal suddenly started to “fuzz” or distort more than normal. It looked like the gain got wild, so I tried to arrange it in my house (with the Gain potentiometer in the back) and there it worked. But yesterday I plugged it again with the band and firstly it worked OK, but then the same problem appeared. Furthermore, the volume that comes out of the pedal when it’s not activated is about the half as before… This extra distortion doesn’t appear immediately when I play the note, but about one or two seconds after the attack of the first note of each phrase.

    Did someone has the same problem? Or anyone knows how to fix it?

    Thanks beforehand

    December 22, 2008 at 5:54 pm #89481
    julian
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    Try using a different cable perhaps
    I was experiencing problems with an OD having way less volume when on
    and it turned out the problem was the cable following it

    December 23, 2008 at 7:16 pm #89568
    John J
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    I have had a similar problem, this is going to suck but look for loose connections OR send it in and have someone professionally look for loose connections. When I first got mine, there was a cold solder that resulted in a terrible bleeding distortion – even when I turned all the sliders down, there was a prominent ugly sub octave fuzz. I fixed the solder and it worked fine, but then a few weeks ago I had a similar problem to yours. Turns out that it was just something near the gain pot that had jiggled itself loose under the abuse of a misguided screwdriver when I was readjusting the gain a few days earlier.

    December 23, 2008 at 7:52 pm #89571
    Ned Flanders
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    To adjust the bypassed volume use the trim pot in the back, read the manual as it tells you how to adjust the sliders to make this adjustment. That will fix your bypass versus effect volume, as for the other problem, I don’t know what it could be.

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