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julianModerator
Shellac is in September. You can’t get tickets online for them and I asked my sister to pick some up for me since she lives in the city, but somehow I don’t see that happening.
julianModeratorPolvo.
They were awesome.
julianModeratorThe real reason you were probably getting that squeel was from a powering issue. Were you using a power supply with a daisy chain?
julianModeratorA lot of times fuzzes and wahs don’t like to play together. I’ve heard this is more the case with a Fuzz Face though, so maybe there is some other problem.
Anyways, you could try something like this: http://www.foxroxelectronics.com/Wah retrofit 2.html
julianModeratorIt’s probably your power supply. IF you’ve got all that stuff daisy chained, that’s a problem.
Having a long chain of TB pedals pretty means that the entire distance of cable is being driven by your guitars pickups, and you would lose tone, but it generally doesn’t create noise unless one of your cables is bad/picking up noise. It’s a good idea to have a non-TB buffered bypass pedal at the beginning and end of your chain. The buffer pedal at the beginning of your chain will drive the whole chain, and the buffer at the end will drive the cable that goes to your amp. This will improve your signal quality a lot. Though having a true bypass box that bypasses your whole board would work nice too.
Please tell me about how you’re powering everything. What’s daisy chained, what isn’t.
julianModeratorQuote:hay Julian, have you seen this?!?!That’s pretty cool!
julianModeratorMore cool synthy type stuff designed by David Cockerell.
julianModeratorWhat do you mean exactly?
julianModeratorhttp://www.stinkfoot.se/andreas/diy/power/psu.htm
There are a couple on there.
Voodoo Labs makes excellent power supplies.
The Pedal Power AC is quite capable, but it has no DC outputs, so you’d need to get a pedal power 2+ as well. Which would be quite costly. BTW the Voodoo Labs power supplies all have one courtesy 120vac outlet on the back that you can plug whatever you like into- be it another pedal power, or just a wall wart.
http://www.voodoolab.com/manuals/pedal_power_ac_manual.pdf
T. Rex stuff is also supposed to be pretty good and I think they have a power supply with both AC and DC. Look at that link at the top.
Voodoo Labs is coming out with a new pedal power that’s going to have 13 outputs including a couple AC ones, but I’m not sure when that’s due to be out.
julianModeratorI’d contact Voodoo Labs via email and ask them about it.
You make just have to make a custom cable.
Or what I’d do would just be to mod the pedal so that it can plug in with a normal cable.
You do need a pedal power AC though if you’re going that route. PP2+ doesn’t have a 12vac out.
julianModeratorTry flipping the switch on the bottom of the expression pedal
julianModeratorThat’d work too.
julianModeratorI’d put it before the wah, but that’s just me.
julianModeratorNow that I think of it more, I don’t think what you want to do will work that way.
There are some ideas flowing through my head right now of what would work best, but you should really post this at DIYstompboxes.
I’m thinking you either want to add a separate voltage to each oscillator, or you want to tweak each oscillator’s tuning via the oscillators circuit.
julianModeratorSometimes adding 1 megohm resistors from input and output to ground helps get rid of that.
Though that doesn’t always do it.
Generally the problem happens because when the pedal turns on the LED pulls a bunch of current and creates an audible pop.
Better than true bypass is millennium bypass, which slowly turns the LED on when the pedal is turned on, so as to avoid the pop.
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