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May 28, 2020 at 7:36 pm in reply to: Why isn’t it possible to recommission old IC’s like the Reticon SAD1024? #126122DelicieuxzMemberQuote:Because you can’t just start making someone else’s chip, you either have to own the patent or be willing to pay the appropriate licensing fees. That’s before you even get to the actual tooling to do it. There is no demand for this chip (yes I need one too). As a matter of fact they are still in stock with a few different bulk electronics suppliers — one place I looked at has 5000+ of them, brand new—but they require minimum orders of 1000 pcs. So if no one is willing to do that, it’s not considered high in demand. An electronics manufacturer has to demand it, i.e. cranking out hundreds if not thousands of units a day that use the part, not a few dozen, or even a couple hundred pedal geeks like us.
If there are sources offering thousands of the SAD2014 for reasonable prices, then I wonder why EHX hasn’t bought them to re-release their vintage pedals that go for many hundreds of dollars used. 5000 would go a long way for a pedal company without being too many, especially for a company like EHX. They might be able to keep reproduction vintage-spec Electric Mistresses available for a year with that stock.
May 28, 2020 at 3:13 pm in reply to: PDF manual for SAD1024 Clone Theory? Need calibration advice. #126121DelicieuxzMemberHere are a couple of audio clips demonstrating the clock noise and high-pitched squeal I am hearing as the Depth knob is turned up.
https://mega.nz/file/g1lRmAKB#MKwZYmNFTOs63iGiTDJ_JPjhtVoQf-p_zoUhZ0KUNJ4
May 28, 2020 at 11:51 am in reply to: PDF manual for SAD1024 Clone Theory? Need calibration advice. #126120DelicieuxzMemberQuote:I haven’t got a service manual for the pedal but it’s not too hard to work out what needs doing from the schematic and any tech worth their salt will be able to work out how to optimally bias them. There’s 3 trimmers, one sets the bias of both halves of the BBD, one sets the gain between BBD’s which in turn provides an equal 50/50 dry and wet mix and the final one balances the output section of the BBD, which is the one you’re probably most interested in as it will remove clock noise (just to clarify, clock noise as in a high pitched constant whine, not hiss or a chirping sound?).Thanks for sharing that information, Scruffie!
The clock noise I’m hearing is a soft ticking at each peak in the modulation cycle. It starts to become audible when the Depth knob is around 1/4 of the way up. And the more that the depth knob is turned-up, the louder and harsher it gets.
Also, when the Depth knob is turned all the way down, there’s a soft high-pitched squeal noise.
DelicieuxzMemberQuote:It was called the ‘Squelch’ Trim, if I remember it’s to do with setting the offset voltage of the full wave rectifier so basically, it’s for tweaking the envelope response of the whole pedal, if the pedal works fine, I wouldn’t play with it.Cool info. Thanks!
April 23, 2018 at 10:26 am in reply to: Problem with EH Micro Synthesizer: Any suitable replacement for the EH CA-3094 IC? #123824DelicieuxzMemberIf anyone else is having trouble with their Micro Synth CA3094 op-amp, I now see lots of them on eBay for just a $1.30 – $3.00 each.
Are these safe to buy? They say they are brand new, and they have free shipping from China.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1PCS-IC-INTERSIL-HARRIS-DIP-8-CA3094E-CA3094/162781301651
I bought a couple, in case I need them later on.
October 4, 2017 at 1:26 am in reply to: Question about the newer version of EHX Cock Fight pedal #123217DelicieuxzMemberThanks for the response!
I received my EHX Cock Fight in the mail today, and I found out with some help from EHX Facebook support that the switch, like you said, is inside the pedal, so you have to remove the back cover of the pedal to access it.
It’s a very tiny internal switch, and it’s labelled “ON<--FUZZ-->OFF", and setting that switch to ON makes the pedal fuzz-only when the fuzz position switch on the front of the pedal is set to "FUZZ OFF". If the internal “ON<--FUZZ-->OFF" switch is set to OFF, then setting the fuzz position switch on the front of the pedal to "FUZZ OFF" will turn off the fuzz and leave just the wah filter. With the internal switch set either way, both the PRE and POST fuzz settings keep their regular functionality, with both the wah filter and the fuzz being in effect. This pedal sounds awesome, BTW. Also, I think that every pedal should have the voltage Bias feature. I mean, why not?
December 7, 2010 at 4:07 am in reply to: Do you think this solo sound is created by an EH Micro Synth? #112932DelicieuxzMemberIt could be the wah on an MP-2 in a parked position, as he’s said he used one of those for solos on the mcis tour, but I was thinking it could also be a Micro Synth’s filter sweep, with both the start and the stop on the same frequency.
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