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Quote:Electro-meix, I apologize for the sarcasm. Your post appeared to me at the same time, and just after I read Cryabetes’, so the statement felt more like “I don’t know what planet you live on, but…” However, on re-reading the post, I see that your comment wasn’t a pointed one.
Thanks for leaving this thread open. I think in its own way it is constructive. At least, for those concerned or interested in the nature of EHX tech support, and hopefully as feedback to EHX, if they ever read their own forum.
I didn’t come here to flame anyone or anything. It was just an attempt to get some support from EHX for my new, and malfunctioning, Micro POG. I put the concept of “troubleshooting” out there because typically tech-support people will have a few tricks that can be performed by the user, to isolate a problem, which will sometimes help you avoid the expense, hassle and inconvenience of returning or exchanging a product. In any case, that was my hope, as well as obligation regarding the return policy of the store from which I bought the pedal.
Obviously, given the limitations, it’s clear that returning the POG to the store is the way to go. But I seriously doubt that I’ll exchange it for another one. Rather, I’ll take a store credit. If I can’t have some reasonable confidence in the equipment that I use, and depend on, then I’ll have to look elsewhere. As you probably know, performing is enough of a psychological challenge without some nagging doubt in the back of your mind about a poorly-understood, and suspect, link in your signal chain.
P.S., I just found the EHX company Contact info buried within their Community menu–which makes no sense to me, anyway. I’ve sent them an email suggesting that they put a Support menu item at the top level of their Web page, and put this info there.
It’s cool…no worries, it’s easy to misinterpret what people post… I did wonder if you read it like that.
I totally understand your frustration… it frustrates me too, I might be admin here but I’m just a volunteer trying to help out other effects pedal users when I can (like 99% of the admin here) I don’t have any special contact with EHX.. if I have a problem I’m in the same boat as you… but because of this the admin here aren’t on anybody’s side, we don’t have any affiliation to EHX other than we like a lot of their products. So, I have nothing to gain by defending them blindly…. providing things are discussed in a sensible way and threads don’t descend into chaos and name calling we are usually more than happy for anyone to have their say, so to speak.
…and yeah, I could have pointed you in the direction of the EHX contact details, sorry about that!
I was only trying to help.. I don’t live in the US, so I have no idea how it works over there.
..that’s why I started my sentence “I don’t know what country you live in” ….. I won’t bother making any more comments if I’m just going to get sarcasm back. I don’t disagree with your other remarks, but unless an EHX staff member comes here to answer you, there isn’t much any of us can do about it unfortunately.
I’ve edited ‘Cryabetes’ post because name calling isn’t acceptable on the forum, I’m gonna leave this thread open because I sympathise with your situation but don’t let this get out of hand or I will close it.
Quote:Wow, you guys are absolute legends – especially you electro-melx! thanks so much!!
In other news, I’ve got a Big Muff Pi on it’s way & look forward to owning one again – I doubt I’ll ever have a collection like Mr. Grim’s but I hope to have at least a few more before the year is through!
Rock on guys!
no problem… enjoy the muff when it arrives!
I’ve seen that before but I totally forget what it is I seem to remember it having ‘mono’ written on it and it looks like an old washing powder packet…. and I have a feeling it’s a delay.. hang on let me see what I can find.
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it’s an MG mono vibe..
http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/mg/vibe/mono
http://www.vintageandrareguitars.com/media/products/main_8336.jpg
oh, I haven’t been in this here thread for a while… so a while back (out of curiosity more than anything) I built myself a ‘violet rams head’ using a GGG board… and I have to say it sounds really good. I know it’s not ‘vintage correct’ as such because I used wima box caps and other modern parts but I stuck to the values on the GGG ‘bill of materials’ .. I tried loads of different transistors and ended up using 2N5089’s which sounded the best to me …. the differences between it and the RI’s? the biggest difference is that it still sounds good if you turn the gain down, even right down… and when you turn the tone anti-clockwise it seems to have more midrange than the recent RI’s, less scoop to my ears.
here’s some pics of the board and the finished pedal.
I just need to paint some cows on it now!
