You lucky dog! The manual should tell you this, but the Looz setting is a rotating speaker sim, the Hamm sound is similar to the Looz but much brighter (I haven’t plugged it in for a while so my memory may be off), the Acey is a near perfect replication of the Vox tremolo and the Wurl is a much more subtle vibrato than the other modes. The manual says that the vibrato knob has no effect in tremolo mode, but it affects the color of the guitar on mine – the Hamm setting is way brighter than the Looz setting, and there are subtle differences between the Acey and Wurl modes. I’m not complaining, though; it’s handy to have that extra treble on hand, especially when the pedal is usually so warm.

You picked a winner, my friend

EDIT: okay I watched your video and realize you probably already knew all of that.

Rad demo, and the song will likely be in my head until the next thing of his I hear. I wasn’t really in to Jack Conte at first, but the man is easily one of my favorite artists right now.

I’m not certain how the dry output affects this procedure – if I recall, the signal that passes through the Dry knob is sent to the output, making it operate like a stereo pedal. I’m fairly certain the reason the Hazarai, Polychorus and Stereo Electric Mistress are non-TB is that true bypass is impossible with the 3PDT switch. Analogman offers a true bypass mod, but it drastically alters the usefulness of the Dry output and sounds pretty intrusive/indepth. I couldn’t find any procedural information on it, but it’s a $40 mod…

I’m assuming boardspace is your reason for shying away from a truebypass loop? I find this method preferable to modding, unless I have a ‘real’ board put together where space is an issue. The only reason I even MENTION this is that I was completely unable to find any true bypass schematics for the microPOG (but not for lack of effort). You could easily make a tiny looper, and you could custom fit it to your existing board. Barring that, Keeley makes a really small TB loop that could slide in just about anywhere on a board. I know it’s not what you asked for, but it is an option.

Also, I have to point out that, while I had it, I never noticed ANY tone issues with my microPOG. This makes me think that you may just have a bum unit. Are you running it off of the adaptor it came with or are you using a powerall of some sort? Before you go doing any modifications, make sure that it has its own supply. I’m not sure WHY, but alot of digital pedals respond really poorly to shared power supplies, especially daisy chains.

Sorry it wasn’t what you’re looking for, but I hope it helps anyways.

No link, but I remember reading somewhere that a friend of Mr. Matthews drew it and he thought it looked cool. Seems as good a reason as any to me.

I’ve gotten stickers with my Holy Grail and Dr. Q, I put one on my thermos but it faded, got stained with coffee, got soaked when I cleaned the coffee out, and then eventually fell off. I’m much more hesitant to use the next one.

EDIT:
With the new company came the famous EH logo, which has been variously described as a “ram’s head” or “lamb’s head.” According to Mike, the logo was designed by a female artist and “I liked it so I just used it as a logo, something to attract attention to the ad. It didn’t have any special meaning other than I thought it was distinctive.” (Neely)

It’s not the first place I read it, but:
http://bertram.codesoup.org/instruments/13/vintage/10/electro-harmonix-70s-booster

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.

Julian – It was genius then and it’s genius now. Actually, I just picked up the Korg DS synthesizer and it’s making me yearn for a kaoss pad of my own. I hate using my hands for anything besides playing or adjusting volume knobs, but a dual axis expression pedal would be the tops.

After you get it in front of the amp, check your batteries if the problem persists.

I turned down a $60 Top Boost Metal Muff last summer and I still kick myself from time to time; I was broke anyways, but the Boss MT2 left an eternally lingering hatred for solid state high gain devices… Little did I know the Metal Muff is rad and extends far beyond the high gain realm.

PS: FUZZ said ‘muff hump…’