I have been waiting for the Mel9 to come out ever since I heard about the B9 & C9. I KNEW you guys would modify the technology to emulate strings and horns. It’s been a long time coming. I have used EHX products since I was kid. I had one of the original Big Muffs, a Bad Stone, and a Mike Mathews Freedom Amp – you should bring that one back.

I Just received my Mel9 and have been experimenting with it for the past few days. Here are the issues I’m having:

#1. It needs a trem control. Sometimes the tremolo is just plain irritating.

#2. The effects output puts out a clean guitar signal when the effect circuit is not engaged- this causes a problem for me. Since the Mel9 has two outputs (guitar thru and effect out) I can play my guitar with whatever sound/effects I have on my guitar while using the Mel9 for horns, strings, or whatever. But when I disengage the mel9 effect, a clean guitar sound comes out in addition to the guitar sound I actually want. So I can have a nice distorted rock sound on my guitar, but if I’m not using one of the Mel9 effects, I have a clean guitar sound accompanying my rock sound. I then have to either keep the Mel9 engaged and manually turn the effect volume up and down, turn down the amp (or PA channel) that the Mel9 effect output is going to in order to eliminate the clean guitar sound or get an A/B switch to just turn it off completely.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Greg Jaqua