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If you really hate them, you could always make a fun DIY project out of it and redo the art if you really want the pedal.
I’ve considered doing that on my LBM which is the ugliest of my pedals, but I don’t know, I guess I just don’t want to.
julianModeratorQuote:I had some EHX pedals I’ve tried out. I sold them all pretty quickly and two of them were reported as faulty by the eBay buyers. One was the Memory Toy. I had told the lady it was probably a loose circuit board. Anyway she said it was all tight, which makes you wonder about her woman bits, because when the pedal came back it was definitely loose. I pushed it into position and it worked.The other pedal was a Micro Q-tron. This guy said it was faulty and didn’t work like in the video’s he had seen. I told him how to use it, and that nothing he was saying sounded like a fault. It was working exactly like they do. So after two weeks of BSing about I offer to take it back. Finally it arrives back and it works perfectly. Not a damned thing wrong with it. Sheesh….Yep, you guessed it, the guy had NFI how to use an envelope triggered filter.
So restored was my faith in EHX that I bought a POG2.
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Stinks about the ebay buyers.
July 2, 2010 at 3:30 pm in reply to: New Devices: Germanium^4 Big Muff &, .44 Magnum, Freeze, Neo Clone, & Headphone Amp #109944julianModeratorwith both channels engaged can you get anywhere near a Big Muff tone, or is it nothing like a Big Muff?
July 2, 2010 at 5:41 am in reply to: New Devices: Germanium^4 Big Muff &, .44 Magnum, Freeze, Neo Clone, & Headphone Amp #109937julianModeratorBrian either works in a store or is a store owner.
I’d love to hear a review Brian.
julianModeratorPP2+ is great.
The first four outputs can be switched from 9 to 12. You can combine any two of those with a special cable to get 18 or 24. The next two outputs do high current 9V for digital effects or they can be switched to unregulated for line 6 pedals. The last two do 9v and can be sagged to simulate a dying battery.
Every output is isolated from the others, meaning that the pedals don’t effect each other. For example, if you have a PNP transistor fuzz, which has positive ground, you put it on its own tap, and it doesn’t screw with the negative ground pedals.
If you have more than 8 pedals you can daisy chain pedals with similar power needs off of one tap. (Generally you have one daisy chain for 9v analog pedals, and one for 9v digital pedals.)
julianModeratorSounds like it.
julianModeratorIt reminds me of DOS!
And that makes me happy!
julianModeratorProbably didn’t like the buffer or the output impedance of the overdrive.
julianModeratorQuote:So you say that with the tone on it has less volume? that’s normal: the tone circuit is passive, so you’ll have to compensate with a little more volume from the vol knob.this is true too, but on those settings with the tone on I’d still get above unity with mine.
julianModeratorOT: I’d put the frequency analyzer between the amp in and BMPTW if I were you. It’s nice to have ring mod before some gain.
Anyways- here’s what I’d check.
Try the pedal with no other pedals, just two cables that you know are good.
IF the pedal then works fine, you know it’s either a problem of pedal order or a faulty patch cable somewhere, try switching out the patch cables it is normally connected to. If that does nothing, try switching some pedal order around.
If the pedal doesn’t work fine with the stand-alone test, then it could be the power. The power jack on my little big muff went faulty and I had to hook it up with a battery connector (luckily I have a plug for my PP2+ for just that purpose.)
If it’s still not working. . . open it up. Look for any obvious problems. Look at the input/output jacks. I’ve had to repair the output jack on my little big muff from taking abuse from a patch cord, it bent one of the inner metal contacts and it couldn’t connect quite right.
If still nothing, I’d email EHX and get an RA#, then send it to them for replacement/repair.
Oh, actually one other thing. . . is this in a band or alone?
Remember, with the tone off, the Big Muff has a mid scoop, which can give it an apparent volume drop in a live situation.
julianModeratorAny 9v analog EH pedal should be fine with a chain, except the nano clone and the muff od.
julianModeratorA charge pump to 18v was the first thing
Notice it regulates down to 12V. According to tonepad powering it with 9v instead of 12v shouldn’t make a huge difference. http://tonepad.com/project.asp?id=54 So you could remove the regulator circuit and power it with 9v.
I found some more stuff at DIY Stompboxes:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=85331.msg713216;topicseenand a discussion about raising 9v to 12v here:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=78128.msg642883DIYstompboxes is a great resource, I suggest you get an account!
julianModeratorI’m not really sure what kind of music you’re into, but the HOG can do a lot of cool synthy things with bass. I play guitar and sometimes bass, and when I plug in my bass, that’s one of my favorites to use with it.
And I don’t have one, but the tube zipper looks really awesome.
julianModeratorFoot controller is the same size of my frequency analyzer, which is about 8″x7″.
julianModeratorJust measured mine!
9 1/4″ x 6 “
Remember you’ll have a bunch of stuff sticking out the back (less so if you use right angled cables)
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