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electro-melxModeratorQuote:hey mel, i was wondering what it was that you were saying about the buffers and stuff. you never got back to me on that. i ordered a ton of parts last night and my dad said he would get me a bread board or 2 from his work and get em to be by friday next week
…. most signal splitters/mixers use an active system using buffers/line drivers to route the signal in multiple directions and blend them back together, doing this passively buy just splitting the signal and trying to join it back together doesn’t usually work very well… that’s all i’m saying. I don’t know know enough to even begin to suggest how and where you should incorporate this into your design though..
electro-melxModeratorQuote:We nick named it that here in the US because it had our Civil War colors, and the old west looking font that was definitely not very Russian. Calling it a Civil War BMP makes about as much sense as calling the V2 BMP face a Ram’s Head, but those names have become somewhat standard now.haha.. gotcha!
electro-melxModeratorcool video… I still don’t understand the ‘civil war’ name though, what’s blue and grey got to do with the Russian civil war? … lol, I guess I need a history lesson!!
electro-melxModeratorIt totally depends where you buy it from…
US it will come with a 110v US power supply
UK it will come with a 230v UK power pupply
Europe it will come with 230v EU plug power supply.what is your mains voltage in Malaysia? if it’s the same as the US (110v) and you buy from the US you will just need some kind of plug converter. (if the Malaysian plug is different of course)
November 19, 2010 at 10:37 pm in reply to: order all the EHX pedals you’ve owned from favorite to least favorite #112663electro-melxModeratorTime for an update I guess
Hazarai
Big Muff (RI)
Small Clone (RI)
Stereo Pulsar (XO)
Double Muff (RI)
Small Stone (RI)
Small Stone (black sovtek)
Small Stone (Nano)
Little Big Muff (XO)
Pulsar (RI)
LB-1 (Nano)
Soul Preacher (Nano)
Micropog
Mini Q-tron (RI)
Knockout Attack Equaliser (XO)
Stereo Electric Mistress (XO)
Micro Metal Muff
Pocket Metal Muff
Switchblde (vintage)
Octave Multiplexer (RI)
Hum Debugger
Stereo Clone Theory (XO)something like that anyway…
electro-melxModeratorQuote:Thanks for your reply, It’s much appreciated… yeah thats exactly what phantom power is for… It puts out 48v current… That 48v would have been sent to the output socket of the big muff… I opened it up but couldn’t get a good look at the circuit board because the rotary knobs are secured with small screws that I don’t have a screwdriver for… and the rotary knobs secure the circuit board to the front panel…I’m picking up tomorrow a screwdriver tomorrow though…Since sending Phantom to the Big Muff the pedals LED flashes somtimes when plugging into the input so I know it still lights up, but it doesn’t light up when bypass switch is pressed… The pedal is outputing a 50Hz hum and a Buzzing at around 300Hz when unbypassed.
ouch 48v into the circuit!!
if you are lucky it might have just blown the output capacitor as that’s the last thing in the circuit, so the first thing the voltage would have hit.. and hopefully once that blew it might not have been able to get anywhere else… yup, open it up and have a look and let us know what you find.
electro-melxModeratorI don’t know a lot about ‘phantom power’ but if I understand it correctly it’s mainly used for powering mics that need power to work and that power is send down the input to the mics output?
if that’s the case then I can only imagine that blasting voltage into a pedal like this won’t be good for it at all. I wonder what kind of voltage the ‘phantom power’ is… anyway I’d suspect that one or more components are fried in the big muff…. it’s repairable though, you could replace every component for not a lot of money (if you did it yourself) but that wouldn’t be a quick job so paying someone else to do it might not be worth it.
open it up and see if anything looks burnt out, blackend or whatever… you might be lucky.. post some pics if you can.
electro-melxModeratorQuote:…. my dad and he said it wouldnt work. “all the outputs would be tryin to fight eachother” now i kinda understand if thats true but is this where the buffer idea comes in mel?yup, that.. they should (in theory) ‘push’ the signal where you want it to go.. I don’t know enough about these things to be honest, but I’m thinking exactly what your dad is thinking.
electro-melxModeratorQuote:I saw something (and that pic) on line a couple of weeks ago, didn’t think much of it as it was a smaller pic and I couldn’t make out what it was all about.Anyways, I don’t buy guitar magazines. (I might get this one to see what Mikes got to say)
Cool though!
http://digital.premierguitar.com/premierguitar/201011_1?fm=2#pg2
I’ve just read it online.
electro-melxModeratorhave you thought about buffers? the the start there you split your signal 3 ways then after the slow gear you split it 3 ways again.. I’d think if you do that passively you will run into all sorts of problems.
electro-melxModeratorHigh pitch whine? it’s usually caused by daisy chaining it with other effects… if you are, power it with the original power supply and it will stop… if you aren’t chaining it then it might still be a power issue.
electro-melxModeratorOn most pedals it goes to the input jacks ‘ring’ connection. (the tab that connects to the shorter of the two springy bits)
electro-melxModeratorI’m totally stumped then, that really makes no sense to me…
Stick around someone else might think of something.
electro-melxModeratorThe most obvious thing to check would be the patch cable you are using to connect them, if they work on their own there really isn’t an reason why they wouldn’t work together.
electro-melxModeratorQuote:Hi, thanks for your answers, but I mean the physical clicks made by the knobs itself…
Is there a way to mute or muffle them?
Or are there any suggestions to replace them?There isn’t really much you can do about it, it’s just a fact that a triple pole heavy duty mechanical switch will be quite clunky. If i’m honest I hate the things, I wish someone would design a ‘softer’ one…. I use ‘alpha’ switches in pedals I’m building for myself (which are much less clunky) but they only come in double pole, so you’d have to get rid of the led or build a circuit for the led (millenium bypass) neither of which is ideal…. but it’s possible if you know someone who knows what they are doing.
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